Evolution
A slow change in a species over time.
What is evolution?
All living factors/ or factors that once lived
What are biotic factors?
The age of a rock since it had formed.
What is absolute age?
A change that alter the form or appearance of a substance without changing it into a different substance.
What is a physical change?
The elements of H20.
What is hydrogen(2), water, and oxygen?
All fossils that have been discovered and recorded.
What is a fossil record?
3 types of interactions in ecosystems commensalism, mutualism, parasitism are known as.
What are symbiotic relationships?
The age of a rock compared to the ages of other rocks.
What is relative age?
A change in matter that produces one or more new substances.
What is a chemical change?
Elements in the same vertical column of the periodic table; also called family.
What is a group?
The process by where organisms are the best adapted to their environment and will most likely to survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection?
A type of symbiosis in which both species benefit from living together
What is mutualism?
The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past.
What is a fossil?
The product of chemical reactions humans create.
What is a synthetic material?
A horizontal row of elements in the periodic table.
What is a period?
Similar structures in species, inherited by a common ancestor.
What is a homologous structure?
A symbiosis of a bird living on a tree.
What is commensalism?
When earth forces turnover rock layers partially or complete
What is folding?
Something formed by two or more reactants.
What is a product?
An arrangement of elements showing the repeating pattern of their properties.
What is the periodic table?
A solid copy of an organisms shape, sometimes containing the original organism.
What is a cast?
A symbiosis of a mosquito biting a human.
What is parasitism?
A fossil of an organism that was widely distributed and existed for a geologically short period of time.
What is an index fossil?
Chemical reactions that release energy into their surroundings.
What is an exothermic reaction?
Number of elements in periodic table.
What is 118?