Vocabulary
The process by which organisms change to better suit their enivornment is called _______________.
What is adaptation?
This scale measures alkalinity vs. base.
What is pH?
One of these is not a characteristic of life. Growth and Development, Response to Stimuli, Crystalline Structure, Reproduction.
What is Crystalline Structure?
One explains a numerical set of data with hard stats while the other is defined by observational data.
A reaction to a stimuli.
What is response?
Refers to the ability of an organisim to maintain internal stability in response to changes in the environment.
What is homeostasis?
High levels of bacteria indicate this water characteristic?
What is poor water quality/health.
The balance of nature.
Homeostasis.
These steps are known as the organization of life.
What is cell, tissue, organ, organ system, Organism?
Genetic Information Storage.
What is DNA?
Causing an organism to react.
What is stimuli?
Chemical Analysis, Biological Indicators, Observation.
What are methods used to assess water quality?
The term for the ability to produce offspring?
Characteristic of life involves an increase in size and complexity over time.
What is Growth and Development?
Characteristic of living organisms that allows them to adjust to environmental changes over time.
What is adaptation?
Standard system of meausurement for consistency and reproducibility.
What is the SI system?
The filling in of a body of water over time.
What is Eutrophication?
The smallest unit of life that can carry out processes.
What is a cell?
What is Asexual vs. Sexual reproduction.
Breaking down food molecules to release energy.
What is metabolism?
The study of life.
What is biology.
Explain biomagnification.
The build up of a toxin as it moves up the food chain.
One is physical, the other is more internal as in knowledge expansion.
What is growth vs. development.
Diseases, drought, sediment, run off, increased nutrients bases are all causes of this water phenomenon.
What is Eutrophication?
Being able to trace a source of pollution vs. not.
Point Source vs. Non Point Source.