Miscellaneous
What type of change is a candle burning an example of?
What is a chemical change?
This organelle controls cell activities
What is the nucleus
This is the speed of light in metres per second.
What is 3.0 x 10^8 m/s?
This type of bonding occurs between metals and non metals
What is ionic bonding?
This is the average weather conditions over a long time period.
What is climate?
This device is used to observe specimens through magnification.
Who is a microscope?
This is the final stage of cell division.
What is cytokinesis?
These are tiny massless particles that carry energy in the form of light.
What are photons?
These electrons are found in the outer shell of an atom.
What are valence electrons?
Ice core samples are used to study the increase in this green house gas
What is carbon dioxide?
This is the largest internal organ, and the digestive liquid it produces
What is the liver and bile
Plane mirrors will always form this type of image.
What is virtual?
This type of reaction involves the combination of elements into a single new compound.
What is synthesis?
This name is given to trees or factories that can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
What are carbon sinks?
This diagram displays the behaviour of light when reflected through mirrors or refracted through lenses.
What is a ray diagram?
This is the balance maintained by the systems of the body.
What is homeostasis?
These lenses spread light outwards, and never produce a real image
What are diverging lenses?
These chemicals have a pH of less than 7.
What are acids?
The type of radiation that is 'trapped' by greenhouse gasses
What is infrared
This is what WHMIS stands for.
What is Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System?
This process converts sugars into energy in plant and animal cells.
What is cellular respiration?
Sometimes light does not refract at the boundary between two different media, but reflects back into the originating medium. Name this property.
What is Total Internal Reflection?
What law states that the number of reactants is equal to the number of products in a chemical reaction?
What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?
The greenhouse gas that destroys ozone, and became strictly controlled in 1987 with the Montreal protocol
What are CFCs