Biology
The location of the most energy in the pyramid.
A substance that cannot be chemically broken down into simpler substances.
What is an element?
All the living and nonliving things around us with which we interact.
What is the environment?
The characteristics of a substance that can be observed or measured without changing the substance.
What are physical properties?
The study of the ocean.
What is oceanography?
The process that takes carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
What is photosynthesis?
The smallest part of an element that can be identified as that element.
What is an atom?
Natural resources that are replenished over short periods of time.
What are renewable natural resources?
The boiling point of water.
What is 100 degrees celsius?
The percentage of the Earth's surface that is covered by water.
The process that puts carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
What is respiration?
The center/core of an atom. Where the protons and neutrons are located.
What is a nucleus?
Sunlight, wind, and water
What are examples of renewable natural resources?
The ability or tendency to float in water or air or some other fluid.
The study of living organisms that inhabit the seas and their interactions with each other and the environment.
What is marine biology?
The number of individuals of a population's given area or environment can sustain over a period of time.
What is the carrying capacity?
The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom.
What is an atomic number?
Nonrenewable energy sources.
What are fossil fuels?
The bending of a wave as it passes at an angle from one medium to another.
Crust, mantle, and core.
What are the three main layers of the earth?
The enzyme used in DNA fingerprinting that cuts DNA at certain places along the DNA strand.
What is a restriction enzyme?
Total mass of the protons and neutrons in an atom.
What is atomic mass?
The shift from rural life, animal powered agriculture, and manufacturing by craftsmen to an urban society powered by fossil fuels.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
A complex machine that performs a very simple task in a very complicated way, usually including a chain reaction.
What is Rube Goldberg Device?
Underwater mountain chains that extend through oceans.
What are mid-ocean ridges?