Ecology
In ecology, this term describes the nonliving physical and chemical factors—like sunlight, water, and temperature—that affect an ecosystem.
What is Abiotic?
This term refers to the genetic makeup of an organism—the specific alleles it carries for a trait.
What is a genotype?
This ecological model shows a linear sequence of who eats whom, starting with producers and ending with top predators.
What is a Food Chain?
This continuous process describes how H and O moves through the Earth’s atmosphere, surface, and underground, including evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
This process involves the movement of particles from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration until equilibrium is reached.
What is Diffusion?
In ecology, this term refers to all the different populations of living organisms that interact and live together in the same area.
What is a community?
This term describes the observable physical or biological traits of an organism, influenced by its genes and environment.
What is a phenotype?
This ecological model shows how multiple food chains are interconnected, illustrating who eats whom in an ecosystem.
What is a Food Web?
Plants play a major role in this cycle as they are they made biotic factor that can remove it from the atmosphere.
What is the Carbon Cycle?
This scale measure the acidity of a solution
What is the Ph Scale?
In ecology, this term describes any biotic or abiotic factor that restricts the growth, abundance, or distribution of a population.
What is a limiting factor?
This molecule, made of a double helix of nucleotides, carries the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, and functioning of all living organisms.
What is DNA?
This process allows plants, algae, and some bacteria to use sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to produce glucose and oxygen.
What is Photosynthesis?
In science, this term refers to any place—natural or artificial—where a substance like water, nutrients, or atoms are stored for later use.
What is a reservoir?
This process breaks down food into smaller molecules that the body can absorb and use for energy, growth, and repair.
What is Digestion?
In ecology, this term describes the maximum number of individuals of a species that an environment can sustainably support.
What is Carrying Capacity?
This tightly coiled structure made of DNA and proteins carries genetic information and is found in the nucleus of a cell.
What is a Chromosome?
This process occurs in the cells of organisms to convert glucose and oxygen into energy (ATP), carbon dioxide, and water.
What is Cellular Respiration?
In this cycle, Bactria is essential to make the elements usable to other living organisms
What is the Nitrogen Cycle?
This flexible, semi-permeable barrier surrounds a cell, controlling what enters and exits and helping maintain homeostasis.
What is the cell membrane?
An organism that has a disproportionate effect on the ecosystem
What is a Keystone Species?
This process, described by Charles Darwin, explains how organisms with genes better suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce.
What is Natural Selection?
This molecule is known as the “energy currency” of the cell, storing and providing energy for cellular processes.
What is ATP?
This cycle lacks an atmospheric reservoir
What is the Phosphorus cycle?
This cellular process moves molecules across a membrane against their concentration gradient, requiring energy, usually in the form of ATP.
What is active transport?