NC Biology EOC Exam Questions and
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Scientific Method - ✔✔State the problem, form a hypothesis, experiment,
collect/measure data, interpret data, draw conclusions, and REPEAT
Independent Variable - ✔✔What I can change; x axis
Dependent Variable - ✔✔What I measure; y axis
Constant - ✔✔Things kept the same across all groups
Control (Group) - ✔✔Baseline measurement or standard to which other groups are
compared
Quantitative Data - ✔✔Generally numbers, talking about quantity
Qualitative Data - ✔✔Generally words, description of quality of things
7 Characteristics of Life - ✔✔Synthesis, Transport, Excretion, Regulation, Nutrition,
Growth, Reproduction, and Respiration
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,Levels of Organization - ✔✔Cell, Tissue, Organ, Organ System, Organism, Population,
Community, Ecosystem, Biome, and Biosphere
Ecology - ✔✔The study of organisms and their interactions within an environment
Organism - ✔✔Any Living thing
Biosphere - ✔✔The living world
Ecosystem - ✔✔A self supporting area composed of living AND nonliving things ,
made of abiotic and biotic factors
Abiotic Factors - ✔✔Nonliving parts of the environment
Biotic Factors - ✔✔The living parts of the environment
Community - ✔✔Composed of all the populations of different organisms living
together in a given area
Population - ✔✔A group of organisms who belong to the same species that live in a
given area
Autotrophs - ✔✔Use the energy in sunlight and convert water and carbon dioxide into
glucose, or food. Also known as PRODUCERS.
Chemotrophs - ✔✔Autotrophs that use inorganic substances to get energy
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, Heterotrophs - ✔✔Organisms that do not make their own food. Also known as
CONSUMERS.
5 Groups of Consumers - ✔✔Scavengers, Herbivores, Carnivores, Omnivores, and
Decomposers
Scavengers - ✔✔Feed on the tissue of dead organisms
Herbivores - ✔✔Eat ONLY plants
Carnivores - ✔✔Eat ONLY meat
Omnivores - ✔✔Eat BOTH plants and animals
Decomposers - ✔✔Absorb any dead material and break it down into simple nutrients
Transfer of Energy Law - ✔✔90% of energy is lost as heat
Trophic Level - ✔✔Each step in the transfer of energy
Main Trophic Levels - ✔✔Producer, Consumer, Decomposer
Food Chain - ✔✔The energy flow from one trophic level to the other, one organism at
each trophic level.
Food Web - ✔✔When multiple food chains intertwine.
Arrow in food chain points in direction of...... - ✔✔Energy
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Scientific Method - ✔✔State the problem, form a hypothesis, experiment,
collect/measure data, interpret data, draw conclusions, and REPEAT
Independent Variable - ✔✔What I can change; x axis
Dependent Variable - ✔✔What I measure; y axis
Constant - ✔✔Things kept the same across all groups
Control (Group) - ✔✔Baseline measurement or standard to which other groups are
compared
Quantitative Data - ✔✔Generally numbers, talking about quantity
Qualitative Data - ✔✔Generally words, description of quality of things
7 Characteristics of Life - ✔✔Synthesis, Transport, Excretion, Regulation, Nutrition,
Growth, Reproduction, and Respiration
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,Levels of Organization - ✔✔Cell, Tissue, Organ, Organ System, Organism, Population,
Community, Ecosystem, Biome, and Biosphere
Ecology - ✔✔The study of organisms and their interactions within an environment
Organism - ✔✔Any Living thing
Biosphere - ✔✔The living world
Ecosystem - ✔✔A self supporting area composed of living AND nonliving things ,
made of abiotic and biotic factors
Abiotic Factors - ✔✔Nonliving parts of the environment
Biotic Factors - ✔✔The living parts of the environment
Community - ✔✔Composed of all the populations of different organisms living
together in a given area
Population - ✔✔A group of organisms who belong to the same species that live in a
given area
Autotrophs - ✔✔Use the energy in sunlight and convert water and carbon dioxide into
glucose, or food. Also known as PRODUCERS.
Chemotrophs - ✔✔Autotrophs that use inorganic substances to get energy
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, Heterotrophs - ✔✔Organisms that do not make their own food. Also known as
CONSUMERS.
5 Groups of Consumers - ✔✔Scavengers, Herbivores, Carnivores, Omnivores, and
Decomposers
Scavengers - ✔✔Feed on the tissue of dead organisms
Herbivores - ✔✔Eat ONLY plants
Carnivores - ✔✔Eat ONLY meat
Omnivores - ✔✔Eat BOTH plants and animals
Decomposers - ✔✔Absorb any dead material and break it down into simple nutrients
Transfer of Energy Law - ✔✔90% of energy is lost as heat
Trophic Level - ✔✔Each step in the transfer of energy
Main Trophic Levels - ✔✔Producer, Consumer, Decomposer
Food Chain - ✔✔The energy flow from one trophic level to the other, one organism at
each trophic level.
Food Web - ✔✔When multiple food chains intertwine.
Arrow in food chain points in direction of...... - ✔✔Energy
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