Provides a natural explanation for events in the natural world
What is the goal of science?
100
Universal genetic code, grow and develop, respond to the environment, reproduce, maintain homeostasis, obtain and use material and energy, made up of cells, evolve
What are characteristics of living things?
100
Ionic and covalent
What are the main types of chemical bonds?
100
mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism
What are symbiotic relationships?
100
Birthrate, death rate, and rate at which individuals enter or leave the population
What are factors that can affect population size?
200
Asking questions, making inferences and observations, forming hypotheses, collecting and analyzing data, and drawing conclusions
What is scientific methodology?
200
Store and transmit genetic information
What are nucleic acids?
200
Polar molecule, ability to form multiple bonds, adhesion, cohesion, heat capacity
What are qualities unique to water?
200
primary and secondary succession
How communities change over time?
200
Maximum number of individuals of a particular species that a particular environment can support
What is carrying capacity?
300
manipulated variable
What is independent variable? OR What is the variable that is deliberately changed?
300
Speeds up chemical reactions that take place in cells
What are enzymes? OR What is a catalyst?
300
pH scale
What is percent hydrogen? OR What shows the concentration of hydrogen plus ions in solution?
300
Abiotic factors like climate and soil, biotic factors like plants and animals
What is a biome?
300
competition, predation, herbivory, parasitism, disease and stress from overcrowding
What are density-dependent limiting factors?
400
Quantitative and qualitative
What are two kinds of data?
400
All life on Earth and all parts of the Earth in which life exists
What is the biosphere?
400
Weak acids or bases that can react with strong acids or bases to prevent sudden sharp changes in pH
What are buffers? OR What are used by organisms to maintain homeostasis?
400
Affected by water's depth, temperature, flow and amount of dissolved nutrients
What is an aquatic ecosystem?
400
Droughts, hurricanes, floods, and natural disasters
What are density-independent limiting factors?
500
Skepticism, open-mindedness, curiosity, and creativity
What are attitudes that help scientists generate new ideas?