Science and Natural World
Science is a way of gaining something about the natural world.
What is knowledge?
Living things are made of cells.
What is the Cell Theory?
Things carbon is found in.
The change of one substance to another.
What is a chemical reaction?
water planet
what is earth
Nature can be understood from some type of study.
What is a systematic study?
What is natural selection?
Nucleic acids are made of smaller pieces of something.
What are nucleotides?
Matter cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the law of conservation of matter?
can occurs as a solid liquid or gas
what is water
An example of a gas law.
What are Boyle's, Charles', or ideal gas laws.
An individual living thing.
What is an organism?
Broken down from larger molecules.
What is glucose?
The sum of all the reactions within and organism.
What is metabolism?
a mixture of two substances
what is a solution
The amount of steps in the scientific method.
What are the 6 steps to the scientific method?
Keeping internal conditions constant.
What is Homeostasis?
The two types of fatty acids
What are saturated and unsaturated fatty acids?
A reaction that breaks down larger molecules.
What is a Catabolic reaction?
measures the concentration of hydronium ions
what is pH
The last step of the scientific method.
What is the conclusion?
Traits that help in a specific siuation.
What is adaptation?
The amount of amino acids there are in proteins.
What are 20 types of amino acids?
a reaction that builds up large molecules
what is a Anabolic reaction
has a pH level of 7-14
what are bases