Atoms and Elements
This Subatomic particle has a negative charge.
What is an Electron?
When atoms share electrons equally, they form this type of bond.
What is a nonpolar covalent bond?
Water molecules stick to each other through this property.
What is Cohesion?
These are the monomers of proteins.
What are Amino Acids?
When populations of different types of organisms interact in a given area, they comprise this.
What is a community?
Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and this element make up 96% of living matter.
What is Nitrogen?
Sodium and chlorine form this type of bond when electrons are transferred.
What is an Ionic Bond?
Water’s resistance to changes in temperature is due to its high value of this.
What is specific heat?
This macromolecule stores genetic information.
What is Nucleic Acid (DNA/RNA)?
This is the functional unit of DNA that will define the characteristic of an organism.
What is a Gene?
These versions of an element differ in number of neutrons.
What are Isotopes?
These weak bonds give water many of its unique properties.
What are Hydrogen bonds?
Ice floats because it is ______ than liquid water.
Fats, oils, and steroids are all classified as this type of macromolecule.
What are Lipids?
What is Decent with Modification?
The number of protons in an atom is also known as this.
What is the Atomic Number
This type of bond occurs when electrons are shared unequally.
What is a Polar Covalent Bond?
This scale measures the concentration of hydrogen ions in a solution.
What is the pH Scale?
Glucose, fructose, and galactose are examples of these simple sugars.
What are monosaccharides?
This is the fundamental process necessary for all life on earth.
What is the Outer Valence Shell.
This can be found by subtracting the number of Protons from the mass number of an element.
What is the number of Neutrons?
The tendency of water to move up thin tubes against gravity, crucial in plants, is called
this.
What is capillary action?
What is its shape?
An explanation for a natural phenomenon that has not been proven false.
What is a Scientific Law?