Burning these is cause greenhouse gasses to build up in our atmosphere and causing our average temperature to rise.
What are fossil fuels?
A resource that is being consumed faster than it is being produced.
What is a non renewable resource?
Long term average weather conditions in an area.
What is climate?
Type of symmetry mammals have.
What is bilateral symmetry?
The only marsupial present in North America.
What is the Virginia Opossum?
A possible answer to a scientific question that can be tested through experimentation or observations.
What is a hypothesis?
Bacteria that are sphere shaped.
What are cocci?
An organism's job or way of life.
What is a niche?
What is a diaphragm?
The majority of our animals on earth are these.
What are invertebrates?
Burning organic material produces this.
What is CO2?
A substance known to cause cancer.
What is a carcinogen?
Features or structures that no longer have a use.
What are vestigial structures?
Contains the digestive, excretory, and digestive system.
What is the cloaca?
Does not lay amniotic eggs.
What are amphibians?
Transport that goes against the concentration gradient
What is active transport?
Mutates faster than DNA
What is RNA?
When two unrelated species develop a similar trait.
What is convergent evolution?
Embryo inside the mother receiving nutrients.
What is a vivipary?
Process that organisms undergo to change from their larval state to their adult state.
What is metamorphosis?
This is made with the spent Hydrogen ions in the electron transport chain.
What is H2O (water)?
They contain a protein coat, DNA or RNA
What is a virus?
Features shared between organisms with a common ancestor, but serve a different purpose. (example: human arms, cat arms, bat wings, and whale fins)
What are homologous structures?
Defining features are mammary glands, neocortex, hair/fur, and alveoli.
What is a mammal?
Pharynx, esophagus, crop, gizzard, intestine.
What is the digestive system of a worm?