Vocab
Gradual breaking down of something by wind or water
What is Erosion?
Produces energy in an animal Cell
What is the Mitochondria?
Regulating the passage of some substances while preventing others from entering the cell.
What is selective permeability?
All systems of energy generally start with this energy source
What is the sun?
Found in the nucleus of the atom, contributes a positive charge.
What is a proton?
Freshwater from glaciers/precipitation at higher elevations
What are the headwaters?
Stores the genome (DNA) of the cell
What is the Nucleus?
The process of a higher concentration solution permeating into a lower concentration solution.
What is diffusion?
Shows how energy is shared and inter-connected between organisms
What is a Food Web?
Found in the nucleus of an atom, contributes no charge
What is a neutron?
The measure of the variety of life that occurs within an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity
Processes waste
What is the Lysosome?
A protein that allows the transport of specific substances across a cell membrane.
What is a channel protein?
The first level of the food pyramid, made up of organisms that make their own food.
What are autotrophs or producers?
If an element has a negative charge, it is generally because it has more of these
What is an electron?
A nutrient-rich waterbody
What is Eutrophic?
Protein production; in particular for export out of the cell
What is the Rough ER?
The substances that can pass through the plasma membrane using simple diffusion.
What are O2 and CO2?
Dead organic material
What is detritus?
An element’s position on the periodic table is determined by this number
What is the atomic number?
Obtaining energy through chemicals
What is chemosynthesis?
Protein modification and export
What is the Golgi Apparatus?
The bodyguards of the plasma membrane
What are the carbohydrates?
The type of decomposers that digest food externally
What are saprotrophs?
The smallest form of an element
What is an atom?