The process of breaking down into smaller components
What is Decompose?
A substance that provides nourishment for essential growth and maintenance
What is a Nutrient?
The formation and recycling of rocks by geological processes
What is the Rock Cycle?
What is a Hypothesis?
The powerhouse of the cell; where the metabolic process occurs
What is Mitochondria?
The building block of life; its presence makes something "organic"
What is Carbon?
The type of soil based on soil particle ratio
What is Soil Texture?
Small rock particles, minerals and bits of once-living things
What is Sediment?
The specific order of steps that must be followed to conduct the experiment
What is the Procedure?
The control center of the cell; where genetic material is stored
What is the Nucleus?
What is Amendment?
The smallest type of inorganic soil particle
What is Clay?
A surface along which a mineral cleanly splits
What is a Cleavage Plane?
A written set of data organized into columns and rows
What is a Table?
The shipping center of the cell; where material is processed, packaged, and delivered
What is Golgi Apparatus?
Broken down and relatively dry woody material
What is Mulch?
A layer of soil parallel to the surface that has different characteristics than the layers above or below it
What is a Soil Horizon?
A scale to identify minerals based on their resistance to being scratched
What is Mohs Hardness Scale?
A layer or group within Linnaean Classification
What is a taxon
The organelle that makes proteins by reading RNA
What is Ribosome?
The practice of raising and managing earthworms for use in compost
What is Vermiculture?
Soil that is saturated or flooded for long enough to create anaerobic conditions
What is Hydric Soil?
An dark-colored igneous rock with fine crystals that forms the ocean's crust, and is not silica rich
What is Basalt?
The two-term system used to denote a species of living organism within Linnaean Classification
What is Binomial Nomenclature?
Small holes in the plant cell wall that allow for things to pass in and out of the cell
What are Plasmodesmata