Units 1-3
When atoms chemically bond.
What is a compound?
The law that states that older rock layers are found below younger rock layers.
What is the law of superposition?
A non-living pathogen that causes a cold.
What is a virus?
A non-living part of an envirnment.
What is an abiotic factor?
coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear
What are nonrenewable?
Elements located on the left side of the periodic table.
What are metals?
An organism that can tell the date or age of a rock layer.
What is an index fossil?
An organelle that provides energy to the cell.
What is a mitochondria?
Organisms that can make their own food.
What are autotophs/producers?
solar, biomass, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal
What are renewable?
Substances that are combined physically.
What are mixtures
What is Natural Selection?
The manipulation of organisms DNA to create products that benefit human well being.
What is biotechnology?
A sysmbiotic relationship between two organism in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is commensilism?
What is conservation?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Processes like plate tectonics and erosion have always changed the earth's surface and are continuing today.
What is uniformitarianism?
Organisms with similar ______ have a common ancestor.
What are body structures (or anatomy)?
These are organisms that have had their DNA changed.
What is a genetically-modified organism?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This percent of energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10%?
the gas given off by fossil fuels that causes climate change
Elements located along the staircase on the periodic table.
What are the metalloids?
The classification of organisms in an ordered system that indicates relationships between them.
What is taxonomy?
An organism that carries a disease and can infect other organisms.
What is a vector?
This nutrient uses nitrogen to create it and provides us with the tools to grow and repair body tissue.
What are proteins?
light energy is transformed into electrical energy
What is solar power?