Ecology/Biodiversity
A collection of organisms that belongs to different populations but all live in the same area and interact with one another.
What is a community
What is a natural resource?
A material or component found in the natural environment
Occurs when a metal atom donates one or more electrons to a non-metal atom
What is ionic bond
Energy an object has due to its motion
What is kinetic energy
Where does photosynthesis occur in plants?
What is the chloroplast
A group of ecosystems that share similar abiotic and biotic conditions
What is a biome
What kind of resource can be regenerated or replenished by biochemical cycles?
A renewable resource
Occurs when atoms share pairs of electrons instead of giving and receiving
What is covalent bond
A push or pull of an object
The breakdown of food in the presence of oxygen
What is aerobic respiration
A close relationship between two species in which at least one of the species benefits
What is symbiosis
Minerals, coal, natural gas, metals
Law of Conversation of Mass
What is states that matter cannot be created or destroyed in a chemical reaction
The different types of potential energy are
What is elastic, gravitational, and nuclear
The name of the sugar that the
plant makes during photosynthesis?
What is glucose?
In an energy pyramid, the energy flows from
What is bottom to top
Where are metals and minerals most often found?
Near tectonic plate boundaries and volcanoes
The atomic number is the number of
_____ in the atom’s nucleus.
What is protons
A new battery has this type of energy
What is chemical
The cellular respiration produces this
What is carbon dioxide
The largest population an ecosystem can support is the
What is the carrying capacity
Humans use _________________ resources to make __________________products.
Natural; synthetic
Elements in the periodic table are
listed in order of their
What is atomic number
Energy is measured in
What is joules
The chemical equation for photosynthesis?
What is ATP + 6CO2 + 6H20 -> C6H12O6 + 6O2