ECOLOGY
A non-living factor in an ecosystem
What is an Abiotic Factor?
A mixture that you can see all the parts of it
What is a Heterogeneous Mixture?
This common substance is known for its very high specific heat capacity.
What is water?
The smallest unit of life
What is a cell?
A form of diet that involves low carbs and high protien
What is Keto/Ketogenic Diet?
A part of the water cycle when water vapor collects into clouds in the air
What is condensation?
A scale from 1-14 that measures acidity
This type of material resists the transfer of energy
What is an Insulator?
An organelle only found in plants that makes food
What is chloroplast/chlorophyll?
The process that plants use to make themselves food from sunlight
What is Photosynthesis?
A group of organisms belonging to different species in the same ecosystem
What is a Community?
This group on the periodic table is extremely reactive and made of mostly non-metals.
What are halogens?
The transfer of heat through electromagnetic waves
What is radiation?
This type of nutrient is important for long term energy storage but can clog arteries
What are fats?
A form of symbiosis where 2 animals both benefit from the relationship
What is Mutualism?
A consumer that eats other conumers
What is Calcium?
This technology cools things down by transporting heat away in a cooling fluid
What is refrigeration?
The esophagus is a part of this system
What is the digestive system?
A variable in experiments that is changed between experimental trials
What is a manipulated variable?
When two organisms focus on their own resources in an ecosystem to avoid competition
What is resource partitioning?
A physical property representing how well something reflects light
What is lustre?
A lever with an input force in the middle
What is a class 3 lever?
This is an involuntary response that happens in your nervous system.
What is an autonomic response?
A measure of the average kinetic energy of particles in a substance
What is Temperature?
A biome with low temperature and low precipitation/humidity
What is a tundra?
The IUPAC name for CCl4
Calculate the Mechanical Advantage of a pully that turns 10N of input into 20N of output
The Mechanical Advantage is 2
This non-toxic substance transports waste through your blood stream to your kidneys
What is urea?
Data that is based off of measured values
What is quantitative data?
When an organism is extinct in a given area
What is Extirpation?
HCl -> H + Cl is an example of what reaction type?
What is a Decomposition Reaction
These two simple machines form a screw
What is a wedge and an axle?
This part of a microscope can be found on the revolving nose piece. It is a type of lens.
What is the objective lens?
The daughter of Frank (Bill Murray) in Osmosis Jones
Who is Shane Detorre?