Populations and Resources
What is the total number of organisms living in a single environment called?
Population
What two substances make rust?
Iron and oxygen
What is an energy storage molecule?
They store energy for the organism.
What are the three different types of particles in an atom?
Proton, neutron, electron
What was the original supercontinent called on Earth?
Pangea
When an organism is at the top of it's environments food chain it is called an?
Apex predator
What is the end result of a chemical reaction called?
Product
How do producers get energy storage molecules?
Name the 3 states of matter.
Solid, liquid, gas
What is the chemical symbol of oxygen?
O
What is it called whenever two organisms need the same limited resource in their environment?
Competition
What are the substances called that go together to make a chemical reaction?
Reactants
What is abiotic matter?
All of the non-living things in an ecosystem (air, water, soil, etc.)
What is the 2nd closest planet to the Sun?
Venus
What are the 4 different spheres on Earth?
Biosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, atmosphere
How can one organism indirectly effect another without being it's predator?
By eating that organism's food source causing competition
Name a chemical reaction that occurs in everyday life.
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What are the 5 parts of an ecosystem? (Hint: producers..)
Producers, consumers, decomposers, dead matter, abiotic matter
What is the boiling temperature of water?
212oF or 100oC
What is a lunar eclipse?
when Earth passes directly between the Sun and the Moon, casting its shadow upon the Moon's surface
Give an example of a real-life food chain with at least 5 different organisms.
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How do you know whenever a chemical reaction has occured?
color change, temperature change, gas production (bubbles), precipitate formation, and odor changes
What cell does cellular respiration occur in?
All living cells
What are the different types of rocks?
igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic
What are the different types of plate boundaries?
Divergent, convergent, transform