Living Systems
Dynamic Earth
Ecology
Grab Bag
How well do you know Ms. Baten
100
Primary energy source for all living organisms on Earth.
What is the Sun?
100
crust, mantle and core
What are the compositional layers of the Earth?
100
The four interacting parts (spheres) that make up the Earth system
What are the geosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and atmosphere?
100
anything that can be changed in a system that might affect the outcome
What is a variable?
100
Washington, DC
What is Ms Baten from?
200
Process through which plants make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
200
waves of energy that travel through the Earth
What are seismic waves?
200
an environment in which biotic and abiotic components interact
What is an ecosystem?
200
characteristic of an object, something that can be observed such as color, shape and texture
What is a property?
200
Cobi
What is the name of Ms. Baten's dog?
300
part of the plant cell that contains chlorophyl
What is the chloroplast?
300
mechanism of heat transport in which hot material rises and cooler material sinks
What are convection currents?
300
Part of the water cycle in which water infiltrates the ground.
What is percolation?
300
the six essential nutrients
What are protein, fats, vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, water?
300
5 years
How long has Ms. Baten been teaching at Saint Mark's?
400
system of lungs and connecting tubes that transport oxygen to red blood cells and gets rid of carbon dioxide
What is the respiratory system?
400
a geologic process in which one edge of one crustal plate is ?forced below the edge of another
What is subduction?
400
describes how energy travels through an ecosystem; energy decreases and is lost to the environment
What is energy flow?
400
fusing of hydrogen molecules resulting in the production of energy in the form of heat and light
What is nuclear fusion?
400
Geology
What was Ms. Baten's field of study?
500
vascular tubes in a plant that transport nutrients and water
What are the xylem and phloem?
500
these faults are generally the result of extensional forces and displacement generally creates valleys and plateaus
What are normal faults?
500
a resource or practice that has a minimal impact on humans and the environment which can produce energy for future generations
What is sustainable?
500
property of a substance that describes how it dissolves in water
What is solubility?
500
California, Arizona, Massachusetts
What are other places Ms. Baten has lived?
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