Carbon and Water Cycle
What is precipitation?
Water returning to earth's atmosphere as rain or snow
What is the Mitochondria?
Power house of the cell and makes ATP through cellular respiration
Biological process of change in living organism over generations.
3 characteristics of an O'Dowd quality source.
Reliable, Trustworthy, High Quality
What is groundwater?
Water held underground in aquifers
Are plant and animal cell Prokaryotic or Eukaryotic?
Eukaryotic
What is a cladogram?
It shows evolutionary relationship among groups of organisms.
What defines a good scientific sketch?
Accurate, big, colorful, detailed, explained
Is water a limited resource?
Yes, because humans need fresh water to survive, which only makes up a small percent off our earth, and most of it is frozen.
The role of the central vacuole
What is provides structural support and acts as a storage?
What is a node?
Represents a common ancestor and a point of divergence, where a lineage splits into 2+ new ones.
What are the 5 W's for determining a high quality source?
What, who, why, where, when?
What is it called when surface water soaks into earth's soil?
Infiltration
What are three things that plant cells have and and animals cells don't?
Central Vacuole, Chloroplast, Cell wall
Difference between derived and shared characteristics.
Derived: Arose from most recent common ancestor.
Shared: Traits that 2+ species have in common.
7 R's of sustainablity
Rethink-Refuse
Reduce
Re-use,
Rehome
Repair
Recycle
Rot
What is transpiration?
Release of water vapor through plants, which filters out minerals and pollutants.
Difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells.
Prokaryotic has nucleoid, are not multicellular, has a tail.
Eukaryotic has membrane, larger, membrane bound nucleus, makes up humans and animals.
What is natural selection vs. selective advantage
Natural selection: Process where organisms adapt and change.
Selective advantage: Increases organisms ability to reproduce compared to other organisms in its environment.
What is diaphram?
It controls amount of light that goes through a specimen on a compound light microscope.