Ecology
Earth Systems
Living things
Energy and Matter
Misc
100
The non-living things in an environment
What is abiotic?
100
The layer of gas surrounding the earth.
What is atmosphere?
100
The smallest functional unit of an organism.
What is a cell?
100
A material that occupies space and has mass.
What is matter?
100
To process a material (cans or glass) in order to use it again.
What is recycling?
200
The complex community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit.
What is ecosystem?
200
The name for all the water on the earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
200
This has the ability to metabolize, grow, react to stimuli, and reproduce.
What is a living thing?
200
The capacity to do work (nuclear, sound, thermal and light)
What is energy?
200
Human innovations to solve societal problems.
What is technology?
300
The living things in an environment.
What is biotic?
300
The process by which water evaporates into the atmosphere, condenses and falls back to the earth by precipitation.
What is water cycle?
300
Reproduction that involves only one parent and creates genetically identical offspring.
What is asexual reproduction?
300
Energy in motion.
What is kinetic energy?
300
A great deal of variety in an environment.
What is diversity?
400
The maximum amount of number that can be contained or accommodated.
What is capacity?
400
Material deposited by water, wind, or glaciers.
What is sediment?
400
A group of organisms that can reproduce and create fertile offspring.
What is a species?
400
Measurements involving numbers.
What is quantitative?
400

Facts or observations on which a conclusion can be based.

What is evidence?

500
A large ecological community.
What is a biome?
500
The cycling of chemical elements and compounds between living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
What is biogeochemical cycle?
500
An animal taken by a predator as food.
What is prey?
500
Stored energy because of its position of chemical make-up.
What is potential energy?
500

The physical, chemical and biotic factors that act on an organism.

What is the environment?

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