Marine Biology
This layer of the ocean no sunlight can reach, but bioluminescent creatures live there.
What is the midnight layer?
These trees lose their leaves in the autumn
What are deciduous trees?
The words evaporation, condensation and precipitation describe what process
What is the Hydrologic (or Water) Cycle?
A substance that contains different compounds and/or elements
What is a mixture?
This behaves both as a particle and a wave
What is light?
A close living situation between 2 species where at least one of the species benefits.
What is symbiosis?
Along with proteins and lipids, these two nucleic acids are known as the “building blocks of life”
What are DNA and RNA?
This tool measures the atmospheric pressure
What is a barometer?
This scale for measuring ranges from 0 to 14 and 7 is referred to as neutral
What is pH or potential for Hydrogen?
This force makes electricity flow, holds electrons in an atom and makes lightning
What is the electromagnetic force?
The two basic groups of fishes.
What are bony fishes and cartilaginous fishes?
Plants make their own food using energy from the Sun in a process called Photosynthesis and store it as this
What are carbohydrates?
Name three things are needed for cloud formation
What are moisture, heat and dust?
These are large molecules made up of smaller chemicals, called monomers, that are linked together
What are polymers?
The terms aplitude, trough and crest are measurements for this.
What is a wave?
A close living situation between 2 species where at least one of the species benefits
What is symbiosis?
This part of the cell is considered the “powerhouse of the cell”, producing ATP
What is the Mitochondria?
In this layer of Earth’s atmosphere, water vapor and dust in the atmosphere form clouds
What is the troposphere?
A bond between two atoms when they share valence electrons with each other
What is a covalent bond?
This simple machine is an inclined plane wrapped around the axle of a wheel and axle
What is a screw?
This phylum of organisms includes sea stars, sea urchins, and sand dollars
What are Echinodermata (Echinoderms)?
Fungi are among this group of organisms that obtain their nourishment from dead organisms
What are saprophytes?
In this layer of Earth’s atmosphere, Coronal Mass Ejections from the Sun charge particles in Earth’s magnetic field, creating auroras
What is the thermosphere?
This is a word for elements that do not exist in nature as individual atoms
What are homonuclear diatomics
This law states that “when an object is acted on by one or more outside forces, the total force is equal to the mass of the object times the resulting acceleration”. F=m x a
What is Newton's Second Law?