Matter
This is the smallest stable unit of matter
What is an atom?
This type of bond involves oppositely-charged ions
What is an ionic bond?
This is what allows water to form hydrogen bonds
What is polarity?
These are the building blocks of carbohydrates
What are monosaccharides?
These are the two components of a chemical reaction
What are reactants and products?
This refers to a bunch of one type of atom
What is an element?
This type of bond involves sharing electrons
What is a covalent bond?
This wicked-cool property of water protects shallow aquatic systems
What is ice floats (solid water is less dense than liquid water)?
This type of macromolecule contain instructions on how to make proteins
What are nucleic acids?
This refers to the amount of energy needed before a reaction will begin
What is activation energy?
This component of an atom is involved in turning atoms into ions
What is an electron?
This determines the number of covalent bonds that a given element can make
What is the number of unpaired electrons in the outer (valence) ring?
This wicked-cool property of water helps maintain internal temperatures
What is high specific heat?
Enzymes and antibodies are examples of this type of macromolecule
What are proteins?
This is the name for a protein catalyst
What is an enzyme?
This refers to two or more elements held together
What is a compound?
This is a type of bond formed between polar molecules
What is a hydrogen bond?
Salt water and Kool-Aid are great examples of this wicked-cool property of water
What is water is the universal solvent?
This type of macromolecule is solid in animals, and liquid in plants
What are lipids?
This is how an enzyme speeds up a chemical reaction
What is lowering the activation energy?
This refers to two or more elements held together by covalent bonds
What is a molecule?
This is what makes a molecule polar
What is uneven sharing of electrons?
These two wicked-cool properties of water are involved in capillary action; some plants' ability to move water from their roots to the top through a vein
What are cohesion and adhesion?
This is made up of a sugar/phosphate backbone and a nitrogenous base
What is a nucleotide?
What are temperature and pH?