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Scientific Method
Atoms
Cells
Natural Resources
Pollution
100
An educated guess based on observations.
What is a hypothesis?
100
Electrons, protons, and neutrons
What is the three subatomic particles in an atom?
100
The basic structural and functional units of all life forms.
What are cells?
100
Anything in the environment that meets our wants and needs.
What is a natural resource?
100
How long a pollutant stays in the air, soil, water, or body.
What is persistence?
200
Two types of observations.
What is quantitative and qualitative?
200
Subatomic particles in the nucleus.
What is neutrons and protons?
200
The two main types of cells.
What are eukaryotes and prokaryotes?
200
A resource that can be replenished rapidly.
What is a renewable resource?
200
A pollutant that can be broken down in a relatively short period of time.
What is degradable?
300
A variable in an experiment that does not change.
What is a controlled variable.
300
The atomic number is a number of these.
What is the number of neutrons?
300
A cell that contains a true nucleus.
What is a eukaryotic cell?
300
A resource that is renewable but can be depleted or destroyed, and must be used at this level.
What is a sustainable yield?
300
A pollutant which takes multiple years or decades to break down.
What is slowly degradable pollutant?
400
The variable that changes on its own, based on the experiment.
What is an independent variable.
400
In a balanced atom, these are equal.
What are the number of electrons and protons?
400
The outer part of the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
400
Overuse of common-property or free-access resources by individuals believing what they over use will not affect others.
What is the tragedy of the commons?
400
No matter can be created or destroyed, only transformed.
What is the law of the conservation of matter?
500
A variable that changes because something else changes.
What is a dependent variable?
500
The total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom.
What is the mass number? or atomic mass?
500
The information storage systems for the cell.
What is DNA?
500
Exceeding the natural replacement rate of the resource, and shrinking the available supply, is called this.
What is environmental degradation.
500
A pollutant that cannot be broken down.
What is non degradable pollutant?