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Vocabulary(any unit)
100
the ability to make things move or change.
What is energy?
100
the basic unit of structure and function in all living things.
What is a cell?
100
the study of viruses, bacteria, protists, and some fungi.
What is microbiology?
100
the preserved remains or evidence of an organism that lived in a past age
What is a fossil?
100
a break, or crack, in Earth's surface along which movement occurs.
What is a fault?
200
a source of energy that formed from the remains of organisms that lived millions of years ago.
What is a fossil fuel?
200
an organism whose cells lack a nucleus and organelles enclosed by membranes.
What is a prokaryote?
200
a microorganism that causes disease.
What is a pathogen?
200
the study of Earth's history, processes, and structures.
What is geology?
200
the release of unwanted substances into the environment.
What is pollution?
300
a source of energy that is used much faster than it can be replaced.
What is non-renewable energy resource?
300
a large molecule containing the genetic information that determines an organisms traits.
What is DNA?
300
an organism that lives in or on another organism and benefits at the other organisms expense.
What is a parasite?
300
the actual age of a rock or fossil, or how long ago it formed.
What is absolute age?
300
the process by which cells break down sugar to release stored energy.
What is cellular respiration?
400
a source of energy that can be replaced as it is used or that can not be used up.
What is renewable energy resource?
400
a large structure in a cell that controls many of its functions and contains DNA.
What is a Nucleus?
400
a pathogen that consists of a microscopic core of genetic material surrounded by a protein coat.
What is a virus?
400
a means of measuring the age of a material by comparing the amount of radioactive from of an element with the amount of its decay product.
What is radioactive dating?
400
a process during which the nucleus of a cell divides to form two nuclei just like the nucleus of the parent cell.
What is mitosis?
500
the energy of moving objects.
What is mechanical energy?
500
the process by which the cells of plants and some other organisms use the energy of sunlight to make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
500
a disease that can be passed from one organism to another.
What is infectious disease?
500
a fossil that is useful for dating geologic layers because an organism lived for only a short period of time.
What is an index fossil?
500
a drug that kills bacteria and slows their growth.
What is anti-biotic?
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