Vocabulary
A substance composed of two or more kinds of atoms bonded together.
What is a compound?
A living organism is known as a _____ factor.
What is a biotic factor?
What is water?
These are the preserved remains of an organism.
What are fossils?
These are composed of one kind of atom.
What are elements?
When you are able to determine the source of the pollution.
What is point source pollution?
A symbiotic relationship in which on organism benefits at the expense of the other organism.
What is parasitism?
These release dissolve minerals and heat into the oceans.
What are hydrothermal vents?
These show how the Earth's climate has changed over time.
What are ice cores?
These are observed and measured without changing the kind of matter being studied.
What are physical properties?
When you can mold or shape an element, it is...
What is malleable?
This is the ultimate source of energy.
What is the sun?
An excess of nitrates and phosphates in the waters create this
What are algae blooms?
Absolute and ______ age are ways to identify a fossil.
What is relative age?
Formation of a precipitate or a gas results in this.
What is a chemical change/reaction?
When one organism benefits, but the other is not harmed.
What is commensalism?
Plants and other organisms that engage in photosynthesis are known as...
This helps determine the health of freshwater.
What are bio-indicators?
The term that refers to the process by which individuals that are better suited to the environment survive and reproduce therefore passing down their genes to their offspring.
What is natural selection?
The Periodic Table is organized by...
What are columns and rows?
The amount of energy needed to raise the temperature.
What is specific heat?
The interconnectedness describing various paths that energy takes through the ecosystem is...
What is a food web?
Federal agencies created the (3 word term) which outline the water quality pollution control program.
What are water quality standards?
This law states that the oldest fossils are found deeper, while the younger ones are closer to the surface.
What is the Law of Superposition?
The Law of Conservation of Mass states three things which are...
1. Matter is neither created nor destroyed
2. what is the on the left has to be on the right
3. The equation has to balance