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WHAT IS LIFE?
Multiple Choice
1) An independent individual that possesses the characteristics of life is called a(n)
a. cell.
b. organism.
c. organ.
d. tissue.
e. atom.
Text Section: LO2
Key Concept: biological hierarchy
Level: Basic fact retention
Answer: B; Some students may be tempted to select choice a (cell) because there are many unicellular organisms.
However, this would not be the best answer because in a multicellular organism, each individual cell is not
independent.
3) The simplest entity that exhibits all of the properties of life is called a(n)
a. cell.
b. molecule.
c. organ.
d. tissue.
e. organism.
Text Section: LO2
Key Concept: biological hierarchy
Level: Basic fact retention
Answer: A
5) If an ecologist is studying the cycling of carbon through a particular environment (which involves the
movement of carbon through living things as well as through rock, air, and water), the scientist is
studying at what level of ecology?
a. community
b. biosphere
c. ecosystem
d. organismal
e. population
Text Section: LO5
Key Concept: biological hierarchy
Level: Application of concepts
Answer: C; This is an ecosystem-level study because it involves both the living and the nonliving components of a
particular environment.
6) Characteristics usually associated with life include all of the following except
a. motility.
b. responsiveness to stimuli.
c. reproduction.
d. lack of change from generation to generation.
e. a high degree of organization.
Text Section: LO1
Key Concept: characteristics of life
Level: Basic fact retention
Answer: D
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8) To maintain order within their cells and organs, all living things must
a. extract energy from sunlight.
b. constantly change.
c. carry on metabolism.
d. reproduce.
e. be able to move.
Text Section: LO2
Key Concept: metabolism
Level: Basic fact retention
Answer: C
10) Young multicelled organisms usually start out small, then grow in size and increase in complexity.
This process is called
a. reproduction.
b. heredity.
c. development.
d. evolution.
e. metabolism.
Text Section: LO3
Key Concept: development
Level: Basic fact retention
Answer: C
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WITH
A NOTE ON THE RELIGION, CUSTOMS, ETC.
OF ABYSSINIA
BY
AND
A N E N TO M O L O G I C A L A P P E N D I X
BY
LONDON
SMITH, ELDER & CO., 15, WATERLOO PLACE
1905
(All rights reserved)
PRINTED BY
WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
LONDON AND BECCLES.
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PAGE
The Source of the Blue Nile, showing Lake in the Distance Frontispiece
The Start ahead of the Caravan 4
Children at No. 6 Station, between Halfa and Abou Hamed,
eat the Remains of Lunch, Curry and Rice 4
The Welcome at Abou Harras 13
Village Musicians at Abou Harras 14
The Wells at the Foot of Gebal Arang 18
Mr. Flemming’s House at Gedaref 22
Rest-house between Goz Regeb and Adarama 22
Gum-bearing Mimosa Trees 30
Trying the Temperature of a Patient at the Doctor’s
Parade 30
Rain Country 64
The Knotted Sapling now become a Tree 66
Messenger sent to stop us going down to the Lake 68
Houses at Delgi 79
Washing out “Tedj” Pots at Delgi 79
A Case of Leprosy 104
Fording the River Gumara 106
Interested in the Photographic Camera 110
Women dancing at the Feast of the Epiphany 110
The “Candelabra Euphorbia” on the Edge of a Dry Water-
course 114
Between Sara and Korata 114
The Church at Korata containing the Frescoes 118
The Portuguese Bridge over the Blue Nile 118
Frescoes in the Church at Korata 120
Our Guide between Korata and Woreb 132
The Donkeys crossing the Ferry 140
The Mules swimming the Ferry 140
Pushing the Donkeys into the Water, preparatory to their
being ferried across 142
Interior of the Church at Bahardar Georgis 154
Market-day at Zegi 162
Interviewing the Sultan of Delgi 170
The Sultan of Delgi, an Old Priest, and Slave carrying the
Shield 170
Head of a Haartebeest 184
“Lates Niloticus” caught with a Trout-rod 184
Hadendowa, Camel-driver 186
Dinka Boy, Camel-driver 186
Soudanese with Amulets 190
At the Well, Goratia 190
Kassala Hill and Market-place 204
The Moudirieh at Kassala 206
Tents pitched in the Enclosure of the Moudirieh at
Kassala 206
Goz Regeb Granite Stone, Mimosa Scrub in the Distance 208
Goz Regeb Stones 208
Rocks at Goz Regeb 210
Rocks at Goz Regeb Hill 210
A Mirage, showing Goz Regeb Hill in the Distance 212
Lord Kitchener’s Bridge over the Atbara, near Berber 214
MAPS
At end of
The Anglo-Egyptian Soudan
Volume
Lake Tsana „
THE
SOURCE OF THE BLUE NILE
CHAPTER I