NoS
PS
CR
Water & Carbon on Earth
Macro's
100

The system of measurement that scientists use worldwide

What is the metric system?

100

The ultimate source of energy on Earth

What is the sun?

100

The organelle in which CR occurs

What is the mitochondria?

100

Water's ability to dissolve substances

What is the universal solvent?

100

Main source of energy for living things

What is a carbohydrate?

200

A testable explanation

What is a hypothesis?

200
The energy macromolecule that plants make via PS

What is glucose?

200

What is broken down during CR that provides the release of energy

What is food?

200

The sphere in which carbon is locked in sedimentary rock or fossil fuels for millions of years

What is the geosphere?

200

This macro is an important part of biological membranes.

What is a lipid?

300

The variable that is graphed on the X axis

What is the independent variable?

300

The organelle that makes the energy molecule in the plant.

What is a chloroplast?

300

This molecule is what living things use to store and release energy for the cell

What is ATP?

300

The key ingredient in living tissue

What is carbon?

300

This macro is made of amino acids

What is a protein?

400

Well tested explanation that supports a broad range of observations

What is a theory?

400

The chemical formula for glucose

What is C6H12O6?

400

A type of CR that doesn't require oxygen

What is fermentation or anaerobic respiration?

400

Water's ability to absorb, store and release large amounts of energy

What is high heat capacity?

400

DNA and RNA are examples

What is a nucleic acid?

500

A search for patterns and connections between events in the natural world

What is science?

500

A factor that affects the rate of photosynthesis

What are lack of water, temperature and light intensity?

500

What ATP is converted from

What is ADP?

500

Photosynthesis,Cellular respiration and decomposition are this type of process that moves carbon on Earth

What is a biological process?

500

This monomer has a 5 carbon sugar, a phosphate group and a nitrogenous base

What is a nucleotide?