The Living Creation
The call from God to multiply and have dominion over the earth
What is the Creation Mandate?
The building blocks of matter
What are atoms?
A biome that receives over 250 cm of rain per year
What is a tropical rainforest?
The change of global temperatures and weather patterns over time
What is climate change?
An organism that is made up of multiple cells
What is a multicellular organism?
A simplified and workable representation of a real-world scenario
What is a model?
A pure substance made up of only one kind of atom
What is an element?
The part of Earth where life can prosper
What is the biosphere?
The ability of Earth's biosphere to maintain its balance indefinitely
What is sustainability?
the internal balance of an organism that keeps conditions stable
What is homeostasis?
A simple, testable statement that predicts a certain outcome
What is a hypothesis?
The tendency for energy to disperse
What is entropy?
An organism that breaks down nutrients
What is a decomposer?
The rate of animals leaving their home environment
What is emigration rate?
A membrane that allows only certain substances to pass through
What is a semipermeable membrane?
The model of DNA invented by Watson and Crick in 1953
What is the double helix model?
A chemical bond in which valence electrons are shared
What is a covalent compound?
The climate zone that contains Michigan
What is a temperate zone?
A model for population growth that takes limiting factors and carrying capacity into account
What is logistic growth?
The balance of changes and motions in a system
What is dynamic equilibrium?
The idea that the Earth is fragile and should be used as little as possible
What is environmentalism?
These are the three components of a nucleotide
What are a sugar, phosphate, and base?
A type of symbiotic relationship in which one organism is benefited and the other organism is unaffected
What is commensalism?
The uncontrolled growth of algae in nutrient-rich water
What is eutrophication?
The pressure from water that keeps plant stems rigid
What is turgor pressure?