Components
Environmental Science Vocabulary
Cell Division
Put it in order!
Complex Questions
100

Bladder, Kidney, Ureters, Urethra

What is the excretory system? 

100

This is a greenhouse gas that comes from cow farts.

What is methane?

100

What is the process called when a single cell divides to produce two genetically identical daughter cells.

What is mitosis? 

100

SUNLIGHT 

ATP

GLUCOSE 

What is sunlight, glucose, ATP?

100

These structures are similar in different species meaning that they share a common ancestor. 

What are homologous species? 

200

Adenine, Uracil, Cystosine, and Guanine. 

What is RNA?
200
Anything that can stop a population from growing forever. 

What are limiting factors?

200

Two uses for mitosis in HUMANS.

What are growth and repair?

200

Mitosis 

Differentiation 

Fertilization

What is fertilization, mitosis, differentiation?

200

Name the method that separates DNA fragments by size using an electric field through a gel

Gel Electrophoresis 
300

Mitochondria, Cell Wall, Cytoplasm, Chloroplast 

What is a plant cell?

300

This alternative energy source uses fast moving water to generate electricity. 

What is hydroelectric energy?

300

The two major products of the testes.

What are testosterone and sperm?

300

Natural Selection

Variation

Evolution

What is variation, natural selection, evolution?

300

A cell in your body that can differentiate into any other type of cell. 

What is a stem cell?

400

C6H12O6

What is glucose?

400

This process restores the environment after human activity or a natural disaster. 

What is ecological succession? 

400

The amount of gametes made in a single round of meiosis. 

What are 4? 

400

CANCER 

UV RADIATION 

MUTATION

What is uv radiation, mutation, cancer? 

400

These are structures we inherited from our ancestors, but no longer work. (Like a tail bone, for example.)

What are vestigial structures? 

500

GLY-PRO-LEU-HIS-TRP

What is an amino acid?

500

The process where too much fertilizer gets in a lake and the algae overgrow, leading to the death of the entire lake. 

What is eutrophication? 

500

This common genetic disorder occurs when a gamete gets an extra 21st chromosome during meiosis. 

What is down syndrome? 

500

VACCINATION 

IMMUNITY 

ANTIBODY PRODUCTION 


What is vaccination, antibody production, immunity?

500

This is the study of gene expression. 

(We did a lab about this with identical twins) 

What is epigenetics?