Matter: Properties and Change
Balanced chemical equations illustrate this law
What is the Law of Conservation of Matter/Mass
Coal, oil, natural gas
What are nonrenewable fossil fuels?
Two measurements that can show how healthy a water system is
What is temperature and pH?
(Also acceptable: turbidity, dissolved oxygen, nitrates, phosphates, and bio-indicators)
Mold, Cast, Carbonized, Petrified, Preserved, Trace
What are the 6 types of fossils?
Cannot be treated with antibiotics
What are viruses?
A measurement of how much space an object takes up
What is volume?
Three most common ways that people can practice conservation
What is reduce, reuse, and recycle?
A measure of the compactness of a substance
What is density?
A fossil that lived all over the Earth during a short amount of time in Earth's past, often used to help date rocks and other fossils
What is an index fossil?
Reproduce sexually and asexually using spores
What are fungi?
The periodic table is arranged this way
What is by increasing atomic number, left to right?
Strip mining, mountain top removal
What are two ways that coal is gathered?
Often referred to as the universal solvent
What is water?
Carbon-14
What is a radioactive isotope used to date fossils/absolute dating?
Binary fission
What is the way that bacteria reproduce?
H2O, CO2, NaCl
What are the chemical compounds for water, carbon dioxide, and table salt
Nuclear fission
What is the process used in nuclear power plants to help produce energy?
Deepest part of the ocean
What is an ocean trench/hadal zone?
Used to obtain information about Earth's past global atmospheric conditions
What are ice cores?
Malaria
What is a disease caused by a parasite, transmitted by a mosquito vector?
Color change and bubbling are evidence of this
What is a chemical change/reaction?
A greenhouse gas produced by burning fossil fuels, could be responsible for global warming
What is carbon dioxide?
(Also acceptable: methane, fluorinated gases/CFCs, nitrous oxide)
Fresh water and saltwater meet and mix
What is brackish water/estuary?
Happens at converging plate boundaries when sliding occurs
What are earthquakes?
Protein coat mutation
What is the reason you have to get vaccinated for the flu each year?