Alyssa Minnick

Endotherm: warm-blooded animal, (animal that can generate internal heat.)

This picture shows a dog, (a warm-blooded animal). Other warm-blooded animals are cats, horses, cows, pigs , and many other animals.

Autotroph: An organism capable of synthesizing its own food by using light or chemical energy.

An example of and autotroph is grass.

Long-day plant:  Physiological reaction of organisms to the length of day or night. This plant strives in the summer due to the nights being short and the days being long.

This is a picture of a spinach plant begining to grow. It is a long-day plant that will grow through the summer due to the pattern of daylight.

Unicellular organism: Contains only one cell. It is a single-celled organism.

This is a picture of bread. The yeast in the bread only contains one cell making it an unicellular organism.

Gibberellins: Any of a group of plant hormones that stimulate stem elongation, germination, and flowering.

This is found in grapes and many other plants.

Tyler Plum

This shows a frond from one of the many ferns in West Virginia.

This shows a common fungus, the toadstool.

This picture shows a male gymnosperm from a Virginia Pine.

This Sycamore Seed shows seed dispersal by air.

This picture shows a dicot seedling. It is not a true leaf.  It starts the creation of the stem.

This tree shows lichen growing on it.

This shows a Eastern Box turtle, a common ectotherm. Ectotherms are organisms whose body temperature is regulated by their environment.    

This shows a fungus called mychorrhizae that helps the plant’s roots absorb water.

This tree shows a parasitic vine growing on it.

This shows forest succession. Forest Succession happens when habitat is naturally restored

       from mineral soil.

Alyssa Minnick

Cambium: A cellular plant tissue which pheloem, xylem, or cork grow by division, resulting in secondary thickning in woody plants.

 In this picture is a tree from my backyard that had to be cut down at a point to prevent rotting. It shows the cambium layer after the outer and inner bark layers.

Adaptation of an animal: Natural-preservation. This is how animals have traits that allow them to evolve with their surroundings.

In this picture, it shows and example of how many birds adapt to different environments. This bird used twigs, straw, hay, and many other tools that they found to build a nest to lay eggs in. They also used the gutter of my house as a safe environment the build the nest.

Epithelial tissue: Tissue that is composed of tightly connected cells arranged in one or more layers, and it covers the whole surface of the body.

This picture is of my hand. Skin is a type of epithelial tissue that has two or more cells; it is known as stratisfied epithelium.

Adaptation of plants: Plants adapt in different areas to help them survive in different climates and areas.

This rose bush adapted to the city area of Clarksburg. The soil is very rocky, and not a good area for plants. This rose bush adapted into the certain area I live in, into the city with a different environment then a rural area.

Enzymes: A substance produced by a living organism that acts as a catalyst to bring about a specific biochemical reaction. As in the picture, milk and cheese has enzymes in them.

Mrs. Beverage Example

hydrophillic:  water-loving (such as the nature of the the phosphate heads that make up the phospholipid bilayer of the cell membrane)

This picture is of my daughter Mara playing in a water fountain at the pool.   This shows that she likes water and isn't afraid to be near it, just as the phosphate heads that make up the bilayer.

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