Ecosystems
This term describes the role or “job” an organism plays in its environment, including how it gets food.
Niche
The bending of light as it passes from one medium to another is called
Refraction
What is the basic structural and functional unit of life?
A cell
This is the smallest unit of matter that retains the properties of an element?
Atom
Name the two gasses we breathe in and out.
O2 (oxygen) and CO2 (carbon dioxide)
This level of a food chain contains organisms that convert sunlight into chemical energy.
Producers (or autotrophs)
The product of an object’s mass and velocity is known as this vector quantity.
Momentum
Plants use photosynthesis to make food. They take in this gas and release oxygen
What gas is it?
Carbon Dioxide
This subatomic particle carries a positive charge
Proton
This is the term for the exploding death of massive stars.
Supernova
This process describes how nutrients cycle between living organisms and the environment, such as carbon or nitrogen.
biogeochemical cycling
Newton’s Third Law of Motion is?
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
Organelle in the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells containing degradative enzymes
Lysosome
This quantity describes the number of particles in one mole
Avogadro’s number Neutral
This metal is liquid at room temperature and can dissolve gold, which is why it was used historically for alchemy.
Mercury
This type of symbiotic relationship benefits one organism while the other is unaffected, such as barnacles on whales.
Commensalism
This phenomenon occurs when a wave changes frequency because the source or observer is moving
Doppler effect
Humans maintain a stable internal environment through this process.
Homeostasis
This law states that mass cannot be created or destroyed in a chemical reaction.
Law of Conservation of Mass
What is the process by which plants convert light energy to food?
Photosynthesis
This ecological concept states that no two species can occupy the exact same niche in the same habitat for long, due to competition.
Competitive exclusion
This principle states that you cannot simultaneously know exact momentum and position of a particle. This phenomenon occurs when a wave changes frequency because the source or observer is moving
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle
How does osmosis work?
The movement of water molecules across a semipermeable membrane from an area of lower solute concentration (higher water concentration) to an area of higher solute concentration (lower water concentration).
This thermochemical term describes the energy required to remove 1 mole of electrons from 1 mole of gaseous atoms.
first ionization energy
What creature has 32 brains, one in each of its body segments
Leech