Biogeochemical Cycles
Succession
Cell Organelles
Natural Selection
Cancer
100
Rain, hail, sleet or snow falling from the sky
What is precipitation?
100
The type of species that is left standing at the end of succession
What is a climax species?
100
The organelle that provides protection for the cell and controls materials going in and out of the cell (In both plant and animal cells)
What is the cell membrane?
100
Someone who studies nature
What is a naturalist?
100
The changing of the structure of a gene, resulting in a variant form that may be transmitted to subsequent generations, caused by the alteration of single base units in DNA, or the deletion, insertion, or rearrangement of larger sections of genes or chromosomes
What is a mutation?
200
The process of water movement through a plant and its evaporation from aerial parts, such as leaves, stems and flowers
What is transpiration?
200
The type of succession where there is only bare rock left over after a disturbance
What is Primary?
200
The organelle where materials are transported through the cell
What is the endoplasmic reticulum?
200
The process by which an animal or plant species becomes fitted to its environment
What is adaptation?
200
A clump of cancer cells
What is a tumor?
300
A change in physical state from gas to liquid
What is condensation?
300
The type of succession where soil still remains after a disturbance
What is secondary succession?
300
The organelles that produce proteins (the building blocks) for the cell
What are ribosomes?
300
An organism that moves by means of its two rear limbs or legs
What is biped (or being bipedal)?
300
A group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body
What is cancer?
400
A change in physical state from liquid to gas
What is evaporation?
400
The type of species that is first to grow back in succession
What is a pioneer species?
400
The organelle that releases usable energy to the cell (the power plant)
What is the mitochondria?
400
A naturalist who wrote The Origin of Species and was questionably the largest contributor to the theory of evolution
Who is Charles Darwin?
400
Cancer of the bone marrow
What is leukemia?
500
The movement of oxygen from the outside air to the cells within tissues, and the transport of carbon dioxide in the opposite direction
What is respiration?
500
An area where living and non-living things interact with each other
What is an ecosystem?
500
Cell organelles that use energy from the sun to make food for the plant
What are chloroplasts?
500
The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring
What is natural selection?
500
The Great One aka The Greatest/Sweetest/Coolest/ Handsomest/Compassionatest/Athleticest teacher on this planet
Who is Mr. Vollrath?
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