Mod 5
This is the force of attraction existing between any 2 masses.
What is gravity?
This is the study of Earth's physical structure, its history, the processes acting on it, and the rocks of which it is composed.
What is geology?
The study of weather.
What is meteorology?
This is the smallest unit of life in creation.
What is a cell?
This is the study of living organisms.
What is biology?
This is the gaseous layer surrounding Earth or another heavenly body.
What is the atmosphere?
These are inorganic substances found naturally in the Earth.
What are minerals?
This is the force exerted onto a surface by the weight of air molecules.
What is air pressure?
This is the process by which plants use energy from the sun and simple chemicals to make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
These are complex molecules made of amino acids that primarily make up muscles and other organs in the body.
What are proteins?
This is the branch of science that deals with the physical universe beyond Earth's atmosphere.
What is astronomy?
The process of wearing or grinding something down by wind, water, or other natural agents.
What is erosion?
This is moisture falling from the atmosphere as rain, snow, or hail.
What is precipitation
This is the method of sorting things according to shared characteristics or qualities.
What is classification?
These are organisms made of more than one cell.
What are multi-cellular organisms?
This is a natural or artificial body orbiting a planet or star.
What is a satellite?
What is humus?
This is the long-term overall physical conditions of a region.
What is climate?
This is how hereditary information is passed down through living things.
Organisms that obtain their nourishment from dead organisms.
What are saprophytes?
The acronym to remember wavelengths of visible light in the colors of the rainbow and what those colors are.
What is ROY G BIV and red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet?
The surface of erosion that separates one layer of rock from another.
What is an unconformity?
This phenomenon is a pattern of climate oscillations where seasons of severe weather might be connected to each other, resulting in yeas of cyclical weather.
What is El Niño?
This is the domain of organisms with prokaryotic cells that are able to survive in the harshest environments.
What is Domain Archaea? or What are extremophiles?
These are cells with membrane-bound organelles that are separated from one another, creating compartments for different jobs.
What are eukaryotic cells?