Chemistry, Physics, and the Scientific Method
The smallest unit of matter.
What is an atom?
The process by which green plants and some other organisms use the energy of sunlight and simple chemicals to produce their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
The study of weather.
What is meteorology?
The the study of Earth's physical structure, history, processes and rocks.
What is Geology?
Organs for taking oxygen from water.
What are gills?
The speed of an object in a general direction.
What is velocity?
An organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
The gaseous layer surrounding Earth or another heavenly body.
What is atmosphere?
Objects made by people such as tools, weapons, containers, etc.
What are artifacts?
Treeless plain with cold and dry climate.
What is Tundra?
When 2 atoms share a pair of electrons.
What is a covalent bond?
When an organism breaks down the dead remains of another organism.
What is a decomposer?
A force exerted onto a surface by the weight of air molecules.
What is air pressure?
An ancient form of paper.
What is papyrus?
Most of Earth's sediments are laid down by this.
What is water?
Experiments in which information about the test is kept from the participants to reduce bias.
What is a blind experiment?
An organism that obtains its food by feeding on other organisms or organic matter.
What is a consumer?
Temperature, water availability, and snowfall in terms that are NOT biological factors.
What is abiotic?
The decayed remains of a once living organism.
What is humus?
The type of body that a jellyfish has.
What is a medusa?
2 subatomic particles found in the nucleus of the atom.
What are protons and neutrons?
An organism’s function in its habitat, including its relationship with other organisms.
What is a niche?
What is the homosphere?
The action of one surface, material, or object rubbing against another.
What is friction?
A thing that feeds on limestone (with calcium).
What is a calcivore?