Natural Disasters
Something that could potentially harm or kill humans
What is a hazard?
matter cannot be created or destroyed in a closed system
what is the law of conservation of mass?
the fundamental building blocks of all living things
what are cells?
type of rock formed by the cementation of sediments
What are sedimentary rocks?
Smallest imperial unit for length
What is an inch?
The likelihood and severity of the natural disaster
What is hazard risk?
The number that represents the amount of protons an element has
What is an atomic number?
specialized, membrane-bound structures within eukaryotic cells that function like miniature organs
what are organelles?
rocks that came from the transformation of existing rock to new types of rock in a process called metamorphism
What are metamorphic rocks?
metric unit of volume equal to 100 liters
What is a hectoliter?
the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year.
What is earth overshoot day?
the process by which dead organic substances are broken down
what is decomposition?
asexual cell reproduction through division to produce identical granddaughter cells
What is mitosis?
rocks formed by the cooling and solidification of molten rock
What are igneous rocks?
a simple sugar molecule made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
What is glucose?
Ability to cope, vulnerability, and severity of the hazard
What are the categories of Hazard Risk Factors?
a group of five to seven chemically related nonmetallic elements in Group 17 of the periodic table
What is a halogen?
The sexual reproduction process for cells that produces four genetically distinct granddaughter cells
What is meiosis?
Earth's layer between the outer core and the crust
What is the mantle?
fatty compounds that perform a variety of functions in your body.
What is a lipid?
a natural process where gases in Earth's atmosphere get heat trapped in them warming the atmosphere
What is the greenhouse effect?
Model of the atom as a small, positively charged nucleus surrounded by electrons traveling in discrete, circular, quantized orbits
What is the Bohr model?
The law of which only one of the two gene copies present in an organism is distributed to each gamete
What is Law of Segregation?
zones where tectonic plates slide horizontally past one another, neither creating nor destroying lithosphere
What are transform plate boundaries?
The organelle is responsible to photosynthesis
What is a chloroplast?