Ecology
Sum of all habitable ecosystems on the earth.
What is a biosphere?
Formed when atoms give or receive valence electrons.
What are ionic compounds?
Alters the appearance of a substance's identity
What is a physical change?
Representation of reality that describes something in a useful way.
What is a model?
Takes up space and has mass
What is matter?
Community of organisms in a particular area along with the physical environment.
What is an ecosystem?
Reactions which absorb heat during the reaction.
What are endothermic?
Substance that dissolves in water to form hydrogen ions (H+).
What is an acid?
Testable statement that predicts the answer to a scientific question.
What is a hypothesis?
Pure substance made of only one kind of atom
Living element in an ecosystem.
What is a biotic factor?
Molecules that contain carbon covalently bonded to other elements.
What is an organic compound?
Substance formed during a chemical reaction.
What is a product?
Belief that nature is good and technology consumes.
What is environmentalism?
Measure of disorder or uncertainty in a system.
What is entropy?
What is biodiversity?
Molecules with a central carbon bonded to four groups.
What is an amino acid?
Typically written as this example: Na + Cl --> NaCL
What is a chemical equation?
We have dominion over the world, and must balance use of resources with needs of people.
What is the Creation Mandate?
Alters a substance's chemical identity.
What is a chemical change?
Part of the earth characterized by a particular climate.
What is a biome?
Key building block of life.
What is a nucleotide?
Covalent bond that links two amino acids together, formed by a reaction between the carboxyl group of one to the amino group of another releasing a water molecule.
What is a peptide bond?
Biblical ethics triad.
What are principles, outcomes, and motivations?
Energy is neither created nor destroyed, but changed into different forms.
What is the first law of thermodynamics?