Unit 1: Water Quality
The path that all water follows as it moves around Earth in different states.
What is the Water Cycle?
Nerve cells that carry information using electricity
What is a Neuron?
The hottest planet in our solar system
What is Venus?
The gas most responsible for climate change.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
The remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock.
What are fossils?
The energy source of the water cycle.
What is the Sun?
The region of the brain responsible for vision.
What is the Occipital Lobe?
A range from the Sun where it is not too hot, or not too cold, where liquid water can exist naturally.
What is the Goldilocks Zone?
A feature or characteristic of an organism's body that helps it survive and thrive in its environment
What is an Adaptation?
The chemical formula of water.
The amount of suspended particles in the water (the cloudiness)
What is Turbidity?
Your brain is adaptable like plastic, this is...
What is Neuroplasticity?
The transformation of a planet into one with Earth-like features that can sustain life.
What is Terraforming?
A system that includes all abiotic and biotic factors in the area working together.
What is an Ecosystem?
A theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust
What are Plate Tectonics?
The process where a gas changes into a liquid.
What is condensation?
Connects the brain to the spinal cord.
What is the Brainstem?
The force keeping our planets in orbit.
What is Gravity?
The state of the atmosphere at a specific place and time.
What is Weather?
Gases in the Earth's atmosphere that trap heat and contribute to a warming planet.
What are Greenhouse Gases?
The driving force behind excess runoff after a big precipitation event
What is Gravity?
The region of the brain responsible for emotions, particularly fear
What is the Amygdala?
The relationship between the mass and volume of an object (how compact an object is).
What is Density?
Natural resources that can replenish themselves naturally over time, either through natural processes or human intervention, and are not depleted when used
What are Renewable Resources?
A solid inorganic substance of natural occurrence.
What is a Mineral?