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The process when energy is released by using oxygen to break down sugar (glucose) and other food molecules into food/energy.
What is cellular respiration
100
The theory that Earth was created from a big explosion a long time ago and is constantly expanding because of this.
What is The Big Bang Theory
100
the smallest particle of a compound; 2 or more atoms held together by a covalent bond
What is a molecule
100
Asking questions and seeking answers to understand the natural world
What is Science
100
Unfair prejudice towards a particular opinion
What is Bias
200
These cells have a cell wall, chloroplasts, a vacuole, and do not have a lysosome.
What are plant cells
200
This scale determines age by the sequence of rocks. For example the oldest would be on the bottom and the youngest on top.
What is relative time scale
200
Mass divided by volume is the formula for
What is density
200
Uses science to develop new things
What is technology
200
A set of principles that guide decision- making
What is ethics
300
Different forms of genes that can be dominant or recessive.
What are alleles
300
The theory that the crust is broken into 7 plates that move and interact
What is Plate tectonics
300
This cannot be created nor destroyed by a chemical reaction
What is matter
300
The process of Making observations-anything perceived thru our senses or technological device. Ask questions and research, develop a hypothesis and collect data to analyze.
What is scientific inquiry
300
data that uses non-numeric descriptions
What is qualitative
400
The genetic makeup of a person
What is genotype
400
The transfer of heat by flow within a liquid or gas; heat rises, cool sinks and plates move.
What is convection currents.
400
Measures how easily electricity flows through materials
What is conductivity
400
In the process of an experiment, this group is not exposed to the independent variable.
What is the control group
400
Data that can be counted or measured
What is quantitative
500
Favorable traits are better able to reproduce than organisms that lack these traits. Also known as survival of the fittest.
What is Natural Selection
500
The crust, mantle and core are all layers of what?
What is the Earth
500
Atom's center (inside the nucleus) same mass as protons, and have no charge
What is neutrons
500
This knowledge helps solve problems and make life easier. It can help build on other scientists to help eliminate bias, and is based on knowledge, predictions, logic, and subject to modification.
What is scientific knowledge
500
Something that is not and has NEVER been alive. Examples include: a rock in the forest, the water in a stream
What is abiotic factor
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