Earth Science
What is living? (could be plants, animals, or bacteria)
Properties of metals on the periodic table.
Ductile, malleable, good conductors, or luster.
What is the place where ocean and rivers converge?
What is an estuary?
Wind turbines are (nonrenewable/renewable).
What is renewable?
A structure that organisms get from a common ancestor.
What is a homologous structure?
A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
Elements in the same group...
share similar properties/characteristics.
What % of water is available for drinking?
Point-source pollution (what is it).
What is a source of pollution that can be identified (came from a specific source)?
In layers of sedimentary rock, this law states the youngest layers are at the top and the oldest layers are at the bottom.
What is the Law of Superposition?
A group of sharks and coral together is an example of a(n)
A. organism
B. population
C. community
D. ecosystem
What is a community? (C.)
From left to right, the types of elements are...
What is metals, metalliods, non-metals, and noble gasses?
What is the difference between a watershed and river basin?
A river basin is bigger and made up of multiple watersheds.
What is inconsistencies and/or cost (expensive)?
A body part that no longer has a function within a species.
What is a vestigial structure?
Cellular respiration is used by ___ to make ___.
1. plants and animals/humans
2. ATP (energy), carbon dioxide, and water vapor
How do you find the number of neutrons, protons, and electrons in an element?
Protons and electrons are the atomic number, and neutrons are found by subtracting the atomic mass by the atomic number.
If water is 2.3 on the pH scale this means...
What is acidic?
Getting a vaccine or staying quarantine are examples of
reducing the chance of disease
a super-continent believed to have broken apart over time
What is Pangea?
Density dependent factors.
What is biotic?
From left to right, what are the first two groups of the periodic table?
What is alkali and alkali earth metals?
The five steps of water purification.
What is aeration, coagulation, sedimentation, filtration, and disinfection and storage?
Reduce greenhouse emissions (vocab word).
What is mitigation?
The periods of geologic time scale from smallest to biggest.
What is epochs, periods, eras, and eons?