Ecosystems
this is a non-living part of an ecosystem
What is: abiotic
Process by which a plant makes its own food
What is: Photosynthesis
Scientists in the 1600s thought heat was an invisible fluid known as a...
What is: caloric
Name the three structural forms
What is: solid, shell, and frame
Something that we can't fully know or see is represented by this.
What is: a model
three types of symbiotic relationships?
What is: commensalism, parasitism, and mutualism
life cycle of a plant
What is: pollination --> seed --> seedling --> adult
When something can be maintained or continued
What is: sustainable
the pleasing appearance or effect that an object has because of its design
What is: aesthetics
The wearing away of rocks by living things
Energy flows in an ecosystem and matter ________
What is: cycles
when plants reproduce without seeds
What is: vegetative reproduction
What are the three states of matter
What is: solid, liquid and gas
three factors depend on the actual effect of a force on a structure
What is: direction, location and magnitude (size)
Properties to identify minerals (6)
What is: color, lustre, streak, hardness, cleavage, fracture
accidental or planned introduction of a non-native species into a community
What is: bioinvasion
two main ways we use plants
What is: food and fibre
the total amount of all kinetic energy of all the particles in a substance
To increase a structures stability, what can you do to the centre of gravity?
What is: Make the base wider, lowering the centre of gravity
three classes of rock
What is: metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary
what is a yield
What is: harvesting the usable parts of a plant
Heat transfers in three ways
What is: conduction, convection, and radiation
Compression, tension and shear are examples of what
What is: internal forces on a structure
The oldest layer of rocks in Alberta