Space
What is the largest planet in our solar system?
Jupiter
What is the boiling point of water at standard atmospheric pressure?
100°C (212°F)
____ is the study of how organisms live and how they interact with their environment.
ecology
What type of cell has a cell wall?
plant cell
What gas makes up the majority of our atmosphere?
nitrogen
The ____ program was a mass mission with the goal to explore the moon.
Apollo
____ is a precious metal used to make jewelry and catalytic converters. Its atomic symbol is Pt and is superficially similar to silver.
platinum
Where does most of the energy in the solar system originate from?
the Sun
____ is a process that occurs when a cell replicates into two identical daughter cells.
mitosis
In ____, dripping water deposits calcium salts, which either form into mounds called stalagmites or stalactites.
caves
____ is a hypothetical, invisible form of matter, belief to count for nearly 85% of matter in the universe.
dark matter
A ____ is a unit of measurement of the amount of a substance. One ____ equals 6.02214076x10^23 particles.
mole
What term describes a level of organization that contains only one species?
population
____ is an energy-storing molecule that fuels cellular activity.
adenosine triphosphate (ATP)
____ are marine invertebrates that consist of tiny polyps. The largest ___ system in the world is the Great Barrier Reef, which stretches for 1,429 miles over an area of 133,000 square miles.
coral
____ became the outermost planet in our Solar System after Pluto’s demotion to a dwarf planet in 2006.
Neptune
____ is a metallic chemical element whose atomic number is 92. Its isotope, ____-235, is used to fuel nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons.
uranium
How does oxygen enter the atmosphere in the oxygen cycle?
Plants release oxygen to the atmosphere as a waste product of photosynthesis
Hemoglobin is a protein in ____ cells that transports oxygen from respiratory organs throughout the body.
red blood
____ is the periodic cooling phase of waters across the east-central equatorial Pacific. During ____ events, stronger trade winds push warm water toward Asia.
La Niña
Kepler's third law of planetary motion states what?
planets further from the sun take longer to orbit
____ are highly reactive nonmetals that occupy group 17 of the periodic table. Fluorine, chlorine, and iodine are examples of ____.
halogens
How would these terms be ordered from largest to smallest?
community, ecosystem, biome, organism, population
biome, ecosystem, community, population, organism
A form of ____, messenger ____, carries out code from DNA that is important for the production of proteins.
ribonucleic acid (RNA)
The layers of the Earth’s atmosphere from lowest to highest are the ____, ____, ____, ____, ____, and the ____.
troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere, magnetosphere