The creator of the periodic table
Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?
The three types of rocks.
What are igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary?
Resources that are replaced as quickly as we use them.
What are renewable resources?
The changing of a gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
The place where a plant or animal lives.
What is habitat?
The three subdivisions of elements on the periodic table
What are metals, nonmetals, and metalloids?
Igneous rock that forms above the ground (i.e. lava that cools and hardens)
What is an extrusion?
Plant or animal material such as wood, manure, grass, or hay.
What is biomass?
The area of land where water is drained downhill into a body of water.
What is a watershed?
The nonliving components of an ecosystem.
What are abiotic factors?
Examples include mass, weight, solubility, melting point, boiling point, etc.
What are physical properties?
The method in which the age of an object is estimated as an actual number of years.
What is absolute dating?
Contains chloroplasts and a cell wall.
What is plant cell?
Pollution that cannot be traced back to one source.
What is non-point source pollution?
An interaction in which both organisms receive a benefit?
What is mutualism?
Chemical symbols of Iron, Gold, and Mercury.
What are Fe, Au, and Hg?
Structures that have the same function, but do not share a common origin.
What are analogous structures?
Younger rock layers form on top of older rock layers.
What is the principle of superposition?
The changing of water directly from a solid to a gas.
What is sublimation?
The amount of energy that is available to the next trophic level.
What is 10%?
Group 1 and Group 17 on the periodic table.
The four main intervals (eras) of the geologic time scale.
What is Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic Eras?
Fluids which contain insoluble solid particles that eventually settle.
What is a suspension?
The open ocean
What is the pelagic zone?
DKPCOFGS.
What is Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?