Chemistry
The area where the negatively charged particle of an atom is found
What is electron cloud? (shell, orbital)
Energy that can be regenerated or reused.
What is renewable energy?
A material that can fossilize organisms made from hardened tree sap
What is amber?
An accidental "oops" in the DNA coding
What is a mutation?
The level of ecological classification that includes all biotic, but no abiotic parts of the environment
What is community?
The location of nonmetals on the periodic table.
What is the right of the stairstep?
Coal, oil, and natural gas extracted from the ground for energy use
What are fossil fuels?
Fossilized tracks and trails left by an organism
What are trace fossils?
A characteristic that allows an organism a better chance of survival
What is an adaptation?
In the parasitic relationship between a tick and a deer, the deer is known as
What is the host?
A chemically combined substance that includes more than one different element.
What is a compound?
A renewable source of energy that is generated by building a dam
What is hydroelectic power?
Layers of rock shown in an outcrop are known as this.
What are strata?
Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest
What is Natural Selection?
An organism within a food chain that eats photosynthesizing organisms
What is a primary consumer?
Matter cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Matter?
A renewable source of energy that may be harmful to birds and is affected by weather
What is wind power?
A gap in geological time caused by erosion
What is an unconformity?
Two-word scientific name for an organism that uses both Genus and species
What is binomial nomenclature?
The amount of usable energy that is transferred from one level of the food chain to the next
What is 10%?
A chemical reaction that gives off heat.
What is exothermic?
A carbon neutral source of energy that can be used for heat, electricity, and fuel for automobiles
What is biomass?
The age of an intrusion of igneous rock through rock starta
What is younger than the rock strata?
Different anatomical structures that have similar uses but have derived from different ancestors
What are analogous structures?
The number of organisms of a species that can be sustained indefinitely within an ecosystem
What is carrying capacity?