Units 1-3
When atoms chemically come together.
What is a compound?
A gap in sedimentary rock often caused by erosion.
What is unconformity?
A non-living pathogen that causes strep throat.
What is a virus?
A non-living part of an envirnment.
What is an abiotic factor?
Elements located on the left side of the period table.
What are metals?
An organism that can tell the date or age of a rock layer.
What is an index fossil?
An organelle that provides energy to the cell.
What is a mitocondria?
Organisms that can make their own food.
What are autotophs/producers?
Substances that are combined physically.
What are mixtures
What is Natural Selection?
The manipulation of organisms DNA to create products that benefit human well being.
What is biotechnology?
A sysmbiotic relationship between two organism in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is commensilism?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This person created the idea of uniformitarianism.
Who was James Hutton?
Organisms with similar ______ have a common ancestor.
What are structures?
The complete sequence of an organism's DNA.
What is a genome?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This percent of energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10%?
The path that an electron takes around the nucleus or an atom.
The classification of organisms in an ordered system that indicates relationships between them.
What is taxonomy?
An organism that carries a disease and can infect other organisms.
What is a vector?
What are proteins?