Regents Living Environment

Match the following structures to their functions

• Stomate and guard cells

• Guard Cells

• carry out photosynthesis in producers

• Stomate

• hole in a leaf; allows gases in and out

• Chloroplast

• separates inside cell from outside cell

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• 2 cells that open and close a stomate

• Cell membrane

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

​ (a)   is a process that uses glucose and ​ (b)   to produce ​ (c)   . Water and ​ (d)   are produced as waste products by. The type of cellular respiration that uses oxygen is called ​ (e)   respiration.

• Cellular Respiration

• oxygen

• ATP

• carbon dioxide

• aerobic

• Photosynthesis

• Sunlight

• anaerobic

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NGSS.MS-LS1-7

Label the 2 bean-shaped cells and the opening in the image

a

b

c

guard cell 1

stomate

guard cell 2

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Reorder the following from smallest level of life to largest level of life.

• Cells

• Tissue

• Organism

• Organ system

• Organ

Order from smallest level of organization to largest

• Population - all the gray squirrels in an area

• Ecosystem - living populations + the non-living materials (water, sunlight, gases, temp., etc.)

• Biosphere - all livable areas of the earth

• Community - squirrels, oak trees, beetles, deer, slugs, etc. in an area

• Individual - one gray squirrel

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Ecology

Label each level of the energy pyramid with the appropriate organism

a

b

c

d

Frog

Grasshopper

Grass

Snake

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Match the following terms and definitions:

• struggling for limited resouces

• Niche

• Where and organsim lives

• Competition

• study of organisms and the environment

• Habitat

• What a role an organism has

• Ecology

Match the following terms with their definition;

• living

• community

• group of the same species

• Abiotic

• the living & non-living in the same area

• Biotic

• non-living

• population

• all the populations in an area

• ecosystem

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Ecology

Match the following with their definitions

• # of individuals an area can support

• Limiting factors

• keeping a balance

• Overpopulation

• Carrying capacity is 2000 individuals

• Dynamic Equilibrium

• limits the size of a population

• 
• Pop. size goes above carrying capacity

• Carrying Capacity

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Ecology, Carrying Capacity

Match the following

• Shows energy is lost at each level

• Food Web

• 1 path; energy moves thru organisms

• 
• Food Web

• Energy pyramid

• Energy pyramid

• 
• Many paths; energy moves thru organisms

• Food chain

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Ecology

Energy flow