Clues for Living 1 Concept Map

*Homeostasis = keeping a balance inside the body (even though conditions outside the body may
be “super crazy” – for example, too hot or cold)

Examples:
Too cold? 🡪 shiver

Too hot? 🡪 sweat

Cellular Respiration = changing energy that is stored in food into energy our bodies can use

ATP = energy that our bodies can use Cellular respiration happens at the mitochondria

*Photosynthesis
=Using the sun’s energy
to make glucose (food for
the plant)

● Changing light energy

into chemical energy
 Photosynthesis happens at the chloroplast.

Relationship between photosynthesis & cell respiration (It’s a cycle!!!)

*Osmosis
= diffusion of water
= water moving through cell membrane (from a place with
*Diffusion = molecules move more water, to a place with less water)
from a place with higher
concentration to a place with
lower concentration
*Ecological succession = plant communities change over time
🡪 “You can start from bare rock /no plants…and end with a forest”

*Climax community = the LAST stage (step) of ecological succession

● Very stable, will stay that way
● …unless disrupted (by man or natural events – deforestation, forest fire,
volcano, flood, earthquake)

*Pioneer species = the 1st organisms of ecological succession

= can live on bare rock
= help by adding a layer of soil to the rock when they die

Examples of pioneer species:

Moss Lichen

*Limiting Factor = THINGS that STOP a *Carrying capacity= the biggest NUMBER of
population from getting bigger organisms an area can support

Ex: food, space, water, oxygen, predators, If a place has “enough grass for 100 deer”
disease …Carrying capacity = 100 deer
 *Symbiosis
= Relationship
between different
species

● Can be good,
bad, or neutral

3 types of
symbiosis:

*Global warming = PROBLEM

= happens because people release CO2 into air.
*Greenhouse effect ● CO2 wraps around earth like a blanket.
= greenhouse gases surround Earth ● More CO2 = Earth gets hotter
● keep Earth warm
Then…ice melts, oceans rise.

*Ozone Layer = layer of ozone gas that *Ozone layer depletion = PROBLEM
surrounds Earth =happens because people release CFCs into the air
● Shield, protect ● CFCs (chemicals) help refrigerators,
people from getting air conditioners, & hairsprays work.
skin cancer
● CFCs float to the sky and cause a hole
in the ozone layer (chemical reaction).

Then… No protection against skin cancer.