Chapter 3 A
3.1-3.3
3.1-3.3
T/F Cordgrass does not excrete the salt, and stores it in vacuoles, While Picklewood actually removes salt as it filters water through its leaves?
False:
It's opposite!
There are 8-20 tiny hair like projections from the end of each neuron are called?
Cilia
A substance that increases the speed of chemical reactions are called?
Catalyst
The experience and skill of the forecaster comes into play as the data he or she receives is called?
Interpreted
The process by which a solid substance is seperated from a solution is called?
Precipitation
The passage of a smaller astronomical object or its shadow across the luminous disk of a larger object is called?
Transit
Now that the cell has two nuclei, each one containing a complete set of DNA, the elongated cell membrane pinches together in the middle?
Cytokinesis
There are seven different types of receptors, which respond to several different categories of scents, including peppermint, floral, and this?
Putrid
When a brittle star is attacked, it has the ability to break off it's limbs in order to survuve. The brittle star is able to do this?
Regenerate
The EPICA ice core revealed that Earth has experienced eight .... during the last 800,000 years, with warmer periods called .....
Glaicials, Interglacials
The main engines of the rock cycle are Earth's?
Tectonic Plates
The universe's largest stars are called?
Supergiants
The study of this is helping people become more fully aware of the brain's potential?
Neuroplasticity
Loss of habitat is the single greatest threat to amphibians, followed by pollution, fires and these?
Invasive species
The plants life is in a marsh and extermely thick. It produces an important food source known as this?
Detritus
Water that lies below Earth's surface is called?
Groundwater
Surrounded almost completely by land, the Mediterraniean mixes with the Atlantic Ocean on through the narrow?
Straits
In less than a second, the star collapses in on itself and explodes is called?
Supernova
Cell membranes are selectively this, which meand that certain molecules can pass through them, while other molecules are blocked is called?
Permeable
The Naturalist Darwin studied the wildlife in the Galpagos Island and arrived at the theory called?
Natural Selection
The movement of rock and soil by sources such as wind, water, and ice causes this?
Erosion
Deposits of mud, sand, and soil collected at the mouth of a river is called?
Alluvium
The Earth's .... is broken into seperate tectonic plates, and it was no different then are it's ?
Crusts
Einstein's Theory of General Relativity explains that ... is warped in a similar was around anytrhing that has mass?
Space Time
Substances that are dissolved into another sunstances to create a solution is called?
Solutes
The animals that are the most successful, the ones that are the healthiest, live the longest, and the greatest number of offspring are called?
Fittest
If the sound of all creatures existed at the same this, it would be impossible to distinquish one from the anohter?
Bandwidth
Streams or rivers that feed into larger rivers or lakes is called?
Tributaries
A triangular shaped landform created where the mouth of a river flows into a body of water is called?
River Delta
This is an area in space where a black holes gravity becomes strong enough to pull anything into it is called?
Event Horizon
How many phases are their to Mitosis
Six
Small membranes located on the roof of the nasal cavity are called?
Olfactory Epithelium
Soldiers would moisten this from a powder of dried ... in order to glow and read maps or identify fellow soldiers?
Cypridinas
These are the coldest periods during the ices ages?
Glacials
These rocks are formed when layers of smaller rocks are compressed to form larger solids called?
Sedimentary
T/F A stars life begins in a massive cloud of dust particles, hydrogen gas, and plasma called a planetary nebula?
False
A cell spends 90 percent of it's life doing specific tasks as a muscle cell or kidney cell during this phase?
Interphase
Frogs have .... skin which makes them very sensitive to changes in theirn environment?
Porous
Animals rely heavily on their sense of hearing and their ability to communicate with each other is called?
Sound Niches
T/F Doppler radar are useful tools for meterologist because they provide a big picture of atmospheric conditions around the world?
False
The place where a body of fresh water meets and mixes with aa body of salt water
Estuary
T/F Astronomers agree that our solar system has eight planets and three dwarf planets beyond Eris?
Ture
This is stable and unchanged
Fixed
When farmers and breeders choose plants or animals with desirable characteristics nad breed them is called?
Artifiical Selection
The study of Biology of acoustics is called?
Bioacustics
T/F Old Faithful spouts between 10 and 12 thousand gallons of water at each eruption?
True
Geologist use this, and have found 3.5 billion-year old rocks on each of Earth's continents
Radiometric Dating
As the energy in a red giant slowly decreases, the outermost materials begin drifting off to form this?
Planetary Nebula
This causes water to move out of a substance do to it's concentration?
Osmosis
This can also communicate something that you've learned through experiences.
Odors
This serves as a defense, because it uses light they produce when a predator is nearby can draw other animals closer for food?
Bioluminescence
Rhyolite is a volcanic rock that most geyser fields contain or other rock that contain high levels of silica?
True
This marks the place where the Eurasian and African Tectonic Plates meet?
Mediterranean Sea
Scientists who study the physical and chemical processes of stars, galaxies, and space are called?
Astrophysicists