Both Cells Organelles
Threadlike structures made of DNA that carry genetic information.
What is Chromosomes?
*Some of these are found in both*
A small structure inside the nucleus that makes ribosomes.
What is the Nucleolus?
A rigid outer layer that provides structure and support to the cell.
What is the Cell Wall?
The burning of fossil fuels or organic material, releasing CO2 into the atmosphere.
What is Combustion?
The process by which bacteria or lightning convert nitrogen gas into forms plants can use, like ammonia.
What is Nitrogen Fixation?
The control center of the cell that contains DNA and directs all cell activities.
What is the Nucleus?
Small organelles that make proteins.
What are Ribosomes?
Captures sunlight to make food during photosynthesis. It also gives plants their color.
What is the Chloroplast?
A place where a substance is stored in large amounts (i.e. the atmosphere, oceans)
What are Reservoirs?
When plants take in nitrates from the soil and use them to build proteins.
What is Assimilation?
The "powerhouse" of the cell that produces energy (ATP) from food.
What is the Mitochondria?
Packages and ships proteins and other materials out of the cell
What is the Golgi Body (Apparatus)?
A storage sac in the cell that mainly stores water in plants. Can also be found in animal cells, but smaller.
What is the vacuole?
The breaking down of dead plants and animals into simpler materials by decomposers like fungi and bacteria.
The process where bacteria change ammonia into nitrites and nitrates.
What is Nitrification?
The thin layer that surrounds the cell and controls what enters and leaves.
What are the Centrioles?
Process by which plants use sunlight, water, and CO2 to make food (glucose) and O2. One of the main processes that move carbon between living things and the atmosphere
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What is Photosynthesis?
Equation: 6CO2 + 6H20 + Sunlight --> C6H1206 + 6O2
Caused or influenced by human activity (i.e. pollution, deforestation)
What is Anthropogenic?
When bacteria convert nitrates back into nitrogen gas, returning it to the atmosphere.
The jellylike fluid inside the cell where organelles are found.
What is Cytoplasm?
A network of tubes that help make and transport proteins and lipids--can also contain ribosomes or be smooth.
What is the Endoplasmic Reticulum?
The process by which cells break down glucose to release energy (ATP). Another process (along with Photosynthesis) that moves Carbon between living things and the atmosphere.
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What is Cellular Respiration?
Equation: C6H1206 + 602 --> 6CO2 + 6H2O + ATP (Energy)
When excess nutrients enter water, causing too much algae growth and low oxygen levels.
What is Eutrophication?
When decomposers break down dead matter and release ammonia back into the soil.
What is Ammonification?