In My Element
The name given to a negatively charged ion.
What is an anion?
The mark that is left in the environment by consumers when fossil fuels are used.
What is a carbon footprint?
The assets, such as physical tools, plants, and equipment, allow for increased work productivity. This is one of the factors of production.
What is capital?
Substances that scavenge free radicals from body cells to prevent or reduce the damage caused by oxidation.
What is an antioxidant?
Any characteristic, number, or quantity that can be measured or counted.
What is a variable?
In DNA, the nucleotide adenine pairs with thymine, whereas the nucleotide guanine pairs with this.
What is cytosine?
A type of heat energy that originates deep in the earth's molten interior.
What is geothermal energy?
The sum of all goods and services an economy produces.
What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
Used in numerous moisturizers and ointments, this substance retains moisture in the skin and lubricates the joints, as well as controls inflammation and redirects blood flow to damaged tissue.
What is hyaluronic acid?
The entire group of interest for a statistical conclusion.
What is a population?
To change from a solid state directly to the gaseous state without going through a liquid phase.
What is sublimation?
This layer absorbs almost all the ultraviolet radiation that reaches the earth.
What is the stratospheric ozone layer?
An economy's ability to produce a particular good or service at a lower opportunity cost than its trading partners.
What is a comparative advantage?
Widely used for cosmetic surgical treatments, this structural protein is the main component of the body’s connective tissue.
What is collagen?
A type of probability sampling in which the researcher randomly selects a subset of participants from a population.
What is a simple random sample?
The chemical makeup of cyanide consists of these two elements triple bonded together.
What are carbon and nitrogen?
Refers to the extreme climate phenomenon characterized by unusually warm ocean temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific ocean.
What is El Niño?
A sustained period of weak or negative growth in real GDP that lasts a few months to years and is accompanied by a significant rise in the unemployment rate.
What is a recession?
Usually formed through precipitation from iron-enriched groundwater, this mineral compound is most often used to add pigment to cosmetics and skincare, mainly sunscreens.
What is iron oxide?
The process of estimates and conclusions carefully based on data from a sample.
What is statistical inference?
Atomic number 3 on the periodic table, this is an essential component of batteries often used to store harvested solar energy.
What is lithium?
A zone of transition between two distinct habitats.
What is an ecotone?
Used by the government to increase aggregate demand, this policy focuses on increasing government spending, decreasing taxes, or increasing government transfers.
What is expansionary fiscal policy?
This type of abrasive agent is embedded in the surface of the earth as minerals and stone. Examples include garnet, diamond, and emery.
What is a natural abrasive?
This theorem states that the sampling distribution of the sample mean is approximately normal if the sample size is large.
What is the Central Limit Theorem (CLT)?