Climate
The gas released when fossil fuels are burned.
What is carbon dioxide?
The name given to organisms made of just one cell.
What is unicellular?
The term for different versions of a gene.
What are alleles?
The system that breaks down our food into smaller pieces.
Water found deep beneath Earth's surface.
What is groundwater?
The layer of gases surrounding Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
The organelle that conducts photosynthesis to produce glucose.
What is the chloroplast?
The type of reproduction that produces genetically identical offspring.
The system that transports nutrients to and waste products from all of our cells.
What is the circulatory system?
The gaseous form of water.
What is water vapor?
Carbon dioxide, water vapor, and methane are called by this alliterative term because of the way they trap heat.
What are greenhouse gases?
This part of the cell determines what can and cannot enter the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
The things genes code for.
What are proteins?
The system that exchanges gases with the environment.
What is the respiratory system?
When water vapor loses energy and forms droplets of liquid water.
What is condensation?
The conditions caused by a high-pressure system.
What are clear skies?
The organelle that assembles proteins from amino acids.
What is the ribosome?
This is the result of sexual reproduction.
What is genetic diversity?
The tubes large and small that carry blood all around the body.
What are blood vessels?
Water flowing across Earth's surface.
What is runoff?
The name given to the way wind and ocean currents curve due to Earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis effect?
Mitochondria release energy by means of this process.
What is cellular respiration?
A copying error made when cells reproduce.
What is a mutation?
The system that sends signals throughout your body.
What is the nervous system?
The term for when liquid water gains energy and turns into a gas.
What is evaporation?