Ecology
What is an Organism?
Any living thing that has an organized structure can react to stimuli, reproduce, grow, adapt, and maintain homeostasis.
What is a Mid-Ocean ridge?
A seafloor mountain system where a new ocean floor is created as tectonic plates separate.
Short answer: Mountain ridges that are in the ocean.
What are the different types of mining?
Surface Mining, Substance Mining, Placer Mining
What are the 5 oceans?
Pacific, Artic, Indian, Atlantic, Southern
What is the difference between theory and law?
Theory describes why something happened. Law describes how something happened
What are the 5 Symbiotic Relationships?
Parasitism, Predation, Competition, Mutualism, and Commensalism
When did the Earth fully form?
Around 4.6 billion years ago
What is Deforestation?
The clearing of trees from a forested area, typically to make way for agriculture, urbanization, or other land uses
What makes up the fresh water on Earth?
2% is made up of ice caps and glaciers. 1% is made up of ground and surface water
How old is the universe thought to be?
13.7 billion years
What is Photosynthesis?
The process by which plants and some bacteria convert light energy into chemical energy in the form of glucose (sugars), using water and carbon dioxide, and releasing oxygen as a byproduct
What are the 3 plate boundaries?
Convergent, Divergent, and Transform
What are the Chemical Water Pollutions?
Heavy metals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals
What is uptake?
The process of absorbing or incorporating substances into a living organism, tissue, or cell
What is the definition of Gravity?
The force of attraction between all objects with mass
Why do consumers need nitrogen?
Amino acids and DNA production
What is a Stratovolcano?
Relative steep sides and are more cone shaped than shield volcanoes
What is Thermal Pollution?
The increase in the temperature of a water body due to the release of heated water or effluents
What are the 5 greenhouse gases in the atmosphere?
Water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide
The planets all ____ in the same direction with the exception of ____ and ____
Rotate, Uranus, Venus
What is the Biogeochemical Cycle?
The movement of a particular chemical through the biological and geological, or living and nonliving, parts of an ecosystem
What is a Seismograph?
An instrument used to measure and record the ground shaking caused by seismic waves
How does a battery produce energy?
By converting chemical energy into electrical energy through an electrochemical reaction
What are the 4 types of Air Masses?
Continental Polar, Continental Tropical, Maritime Polar, and Maritime Tropical
What is Kepler's first law?
All ____ move in an ____ orbit with the ____ as the focus
Planets, elliptical, sun