Vocabulary
the study of interactions between organisms and their environment
What is Ecology?
all the organisms that live in the same place
What is an ecosystem?
The heat from earth's light source that is TRAPPED in the atmosphere
What is the greenhouse effect?
chemical bonds where electrons are shared
a group of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
What is a biome?
What is observation, experimentation, and modeling?
What are the three greenhouse gasses?
data that contains description
what is qualitative data?
assemblage of different populations that live together
What is community?
includes all of earth's gasses
What is the atmosphere?
hurricanes are an instance of this.
What is weather?
deoxyribonucleic acid
What is DNA?
day-to-day changes in the conditions of earth's atmophere
What is weather?
all of earth's usual solids
the cause of global wind patterns and currents
What is the unequal distribution of heat between the equator and the poles?
responsible for allowing small insects to walk on water
What is cohesion?
all of the nonliving parts of an environment
What is abiotic?
What are quadrants?
cold currents from the Southern Hemisphere normally travel in this direction
What is north?
the energy required to start a chemical reaction
What is activation energy?