Chemistry
How is the periodic table arranged?
Atomic Number
What is the longest period of time? Eon, Era, Epoch, Period,
Eon
A change in a genetic sequence.
Mutation
Water molecules are attracted to other water molecules, creating drops because of this property.
Cohesion
Ecosystem
Nucleus
This phase of matter has a fixed volume and takes the shape of its container.
Liquid
The study of ancient life
paleontology
Survival of the fittest.
Natural Selection
A body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater.
Aquifer
Habitat
The power house of the cell.
Mitrochondria
A type of matter that cannot be broken down by physical means.
Element, Compound, Pure Substance
Remains or traces of ancient life.
Fossils
A characteristic that enhances survival or reproduction of an organism.
Adaptation
69% of freshwater is found where?
Glaciers
All of the populations in an area
Community
A process by which a cell captures energy in sunlight and uses it to make food.
Photosynthesis.
The substance that is dissolved in a solution.
Solute
A way of looking at the Earth's atmosphere over time.
Ice Cores
3 domains of classification
Archaea, Bacteria, Eukarya
Brackish water
Estuary
When nitrogen found in the atmosphere returns to the soil.
Nitrogen Fixation
Photosynthesis produces
Oxygen and Sugar
The mass of the reactants must equal the mass of the product.
Law of conservation of mass
Measures the amount of radioactive substance compared to the decayed material.
Radioactive Dating, Absolute Dating
Humans are in this kingdom of life.
Animalia
An area of land that feeds all the water running under it and draining off of it into a body of water.
Watershed.
The amount of organisms that can be in one environment without environmental degradation.
Carrying Capacity
Mitochondria turns the chemical energy (sugar) into useful energy (______)
ATP
The chemical reaction exchanges matter with its environment
Open System
Oldest layers of rock will be at the bottom
Law of superposition
The father of Evolution
Charles Darwin
When a water system dies.
Eutrophication
A form of environmental resistance that limits the population.
Limiting factor
Produces large amounts of ATP
Aerobic Cellular Respiration