Review Sheet : Honors Biology Chapter 2

Define the words below: Heterotroph Autotroph Free energy Producers Consumers Food web Food chain Oxidation

1. Name all the characteristics of Living Things: 2. Give 2 examples of heterotrophs: 3. Where do Autotrophs get their energy and nutrients from? 4. How does free energy become available to organisms? 5. Give an example of stored energy, which we as humans use: 6. If a organism is deep beneath the sea, where not light can reach, they can synthesize energy from inorganic molecules, and are called______. 7. How is energy in food converted to free energy? 8. Compare and contrast biotic and abiotic factors; 9. Are decomposers, Autotrophs or heterotrophs? 10. List the levels of organization starting with molecule and going through biosphere. 11. Compare and contrast an energy diagram and a food chain: 12. Energy that is not used by the organism or passed on to its predator, is ______. 13. Structure of sucrose in relation to glucose: 14. Synthesis vs. a decomposition reaction: 15. Explain the 2nd law of thermodynamics in layman’s terms : 16. How is the energy contained in ATP released and restored? 17. How do you determine the rate of a reaction if it involves, time and product formed? 18. How does boiling affect enzymes activity? 19. What was the substrate in the enzyme lab we did in class, what contained the enzymes? 20. How does pH affect it?