An undesired change in air, water or soil that adversely affects the health, survival, or activities of humans and other organisms.
What is Pollution
100
Farthest from Earth's surface. Nitrogen and oxygen absorb solar radiation, resulting in temperatures above 2,000 degrees Celsius.
What is Thermosphere
100
An inherited trait that increases an organism’s chance
of survival and reproduction in a certain environment.
What is Adaptation
100
A resource that can be replaced relatively quickly by natural process.
What is renewable resource
200
The chance that something will happen is called...
What is probability
200
A change in the genetic characteristics of a population from one generation to the next.
What is Evolution
200
The process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce with more success than less well adapted individuals do.
What is Natural Selection
200
occurs in areas where an ecosystem has previously
existed. For example, ecosystems that have been disturbed or disrupted by humans or animals, or by natural processes such as storms, floods, and earthquakes can regrow.
What is Secondary Succession
300
The number and variety of species that live in an area.
What is Biodiversity
300
The transfer of energy in the form of heat from a warmer object to a colder object when the objects are placed in direct physical contact. (give example)
What is Conduction (i.e. ice melting in hand)
300
A gradual process of change and replacement of
some or all of the species in a community.
What is ecological succession
300
The selective breeding of organisms by humans for specific characteristics.
What is Artificial Selection
400
A testable idea or explanation that leads to a scientific investigation.
What is Hypothesis
400
A series of steps that scientists use to identify and answer questions (also identify steps)
What is experimental method which include: observing, hypothesizing, predicting, experiment, data/results, conclusion
400
The transfer of energy as electromagnetic waves. give example
What is radiation (suns rays)
400
a resource that forms at a much slower rate that the rate that it is consumed (give examples)
What is nonrenewable resource ex (minerals and fossil fuels)
500
A conceptual model that provides a systematic process for making decisions.
What is decision making model
500
The transfer of energy that takes place when variations in temperature move the matter making up air.
What is Convection
500
The ability of one or more organisms to tolerate a particular chemical designed to kill it.