Biological Diversity
Space Exploration
Electrical Principals and Technology
Matter and Chemical Change
Environmental Chemistry
100
The process of people selecting individuals in an animal or plant species to breed based on their specific characteristics.
What is Artificial Selection?
100
The name of the azimuth that is directly above a point of reference.
What is zenith?
100
This type of circuit contains only one path for electricity to flow
What is a series circuit?
100
These are like the ability of a substance to burn, or react with another chemical like an acid
What are chemical properties?
100
These are small invertebrates; like mayfly, dragonfly nymphs, and snails. They can tell us about the quality of the water they live in
What are biological indicators?
200
An example of this variation is which hand someone uses for writing. Unlike Height and Weight which are examples of the other type of variation.
What is Discrete variation?
200
Altitude measures from 0 to 90 degrees above the horizon where as Azimuth measures....
North (0), East (90), South (180), West (270)
200
If you compared electricity to water, you could call this the pressure in a hose
What is voltage?
200
This shows the number of protons found in an atom of a specific element
What is the atomic number?
200
Describe the pH scale.
-1-6 acidic, 7 neutral, 8-14 basic/alkaline
-each level of the pH scale has 10x more hydrogen ions
300
These are the three types of symbiosis, in order of benefiting both species, benefitting only one species, and benefitting one but harming the other species.
What are Mutualism, commensalism, parasitism?
300
The two axis on the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram
What is luminosity (brightness) and temperature?
300
Name 7 types of energy
What is fossil fuels, solar, wind, nuclear, geothermal, biomass, hydroelectric?
300
This is the most stable group of elements on the periodic table.
What are the Noble Gases?
300
Carbohydrates, lipids (fats), proteins, and nucleic acids are examples.
What are organic compounds?
400
When talking about genetics, these are like the alphabet, sentences, and books. In that order, they are called...
What are DNA, Genes, Chromosomes?
400
This model viewed the solar system with the Earth as the center of orbit, as oppossed to the Sun.
What is the Earth-centered model?
400
The efficiency of a machine tells us this.
How much input work is converted to output work. It can never be 100% efficient as some is always lost as heat.
400
These types of compounds require you to balance out the ion charges of the metal and the non metal.
What is an ionic compound?
400
Identify and describe 3 water quality tests.
Dissolve oxygen - how much oxygen is in water
pH - acidity levels
Turbidity - clarity of the water
Nitrates/Phosphates - how much nitrates and phosphates from fertilizer/farming are in the water
Bioindicators - living organisms that determine health of the water
Temperature - temperature can indicate oxygen levels
500
This process allows cells to replicate their DNA and create two, identical cells with the same DNA as the parent cells.
What is mitosis?
500
The pathway of the lifecycle of a star.
What is nebula -> average star -> giant -> white dwarf -> black dwarf OR nebula -> massive star -> supergiant -> supernova -> blackhole/neutron star
500
Ohm's law describes the relationship between these three things in a circuit.
What are voltage, current, and resistance?
500
The correct chemical name for the compound CH4, N2O, and S2O3.
What is a carbon tetrahydride, dinitrogen monoxide, and disulfur trioxide?
500
According to this graph, dissolved oxygen does this as the temperature decreases
Dissolved oxygen increases as temperature decreases.