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Gram

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The basic metric unit to measure mass.

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Liter

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The basic metric unit to measure volume.

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Meter

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The basic metric unit to measure distance.

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Celsius

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Celsius The basic metric unit to measure temperature.

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What is the volume of a 6cm x 6cm x 6cm block?

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216 cm3

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What is the average of 60, 68, 75, 85?

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72

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Which unit of measure is used to measure the distance to the sun?

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Kilometer

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Graduated cylinder, beaker, and Erlenmeyer flask

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Lab equipment used to measure volume

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Triple beam balance

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Lab equipment used to measure mass

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Meter stick

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Lab equipment used to measure length

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Thermometer

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Lab equipment used to measure temperature

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Line graph

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This graph best shows changes or progress over time

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Bar graph

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This graph best shows a comparison between things

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Pie chart

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This graph best shows percentages

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What are the 8 characteristics of life?

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  1. Made of 1 or more cells
  2. Displays organization
  3. Grows and develops
  4. Be able to reproduce
  5. Responds to stimuli
  6. Requires energy for cellular function
  7. Maintains homeostasis
  8. Adapts over time
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What are the 5 levels of organization?

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  1. Atoms and molecules
  2. Cell
  3. Tissue
  4. Organ
  5. Organ system
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Ecology

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The scientific study of all the interrelationships between organisms and their environments.

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Biotic

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Any living factor in an organism’s environment.

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Abiotic

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Any non-living factor in an organism’s environment, such as soil, light, air.

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Limiting Factor

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Any factor that restricts the number, distribution, or reproduction in a community.

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Population

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A group of organisms of the same species that occupy the same geographic place at the same time.

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Biological community

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All of the interacting populations of different species that live in the same geographic location at the same time.

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Homeostasis

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Regulation of an organism’s internal conditions to maintain life.

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Stimulus

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A change in an organism’s surroundings that causes it to react.

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Commensalism

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When one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.

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Parasitism

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When one organism benefits at the expense of another.

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Tolerance

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The ability for an organism to survive when subjected to abiotic and biotic factors

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Biosphere

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The portion of the earth that supports life.

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Symbiosis

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The close relationship that exists when 2 or more species live together.

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Biome

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Large group of ecosystems that share the same climate and have similar communities

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Niche

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The role or position that an organism has in its environment, how it meets its needs and requirements for life.

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Food web

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Many interconnected food chains at many trophic levels.

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Food Chain

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A basic network that shows the linear flow of nutrients and energy from one trophic level to another.

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Producer

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Makes its own food (plants through photosynthesis).

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Consumer

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Cannot make its own food (herbivores, carnivores, omnivores).

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Carbon Cycle

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The carbon cycle is the process that moves carbon between plants, animals, and microbes; minerals in the earth; and the atmosphere.

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Water Cycle

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The water cycle shows the continuous movement of water within the Earth and atmosphere.

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Nitrogen Cycle

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The nitrogen cycle is a biogeochemical process through which nitrogen is converted into many forms, consecutively passing from the atmosphere to the soil to organism and back into the atmosphere.

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Phosphorus Cycle

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Phosphorus moves in a cycle through rocks, water, soil and sediments and organisms. Over time, rain and weathering cause rocks to release phosphate ions and other minerals. This inorganic phosphate is then distributed in soils and water.

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Oxygen Cycle

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The oxygen cycle begins with the process of photosynthesis in the presence of sunlight, releases oxygen back into the atmosphere, which humans and animals breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide, and again linking back to the plants.

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Primary Succession

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Primary succession is ecological succession that begins in essentially lifeless areas, such as regions in which there is no soil or where the soil is incapable of sustaining life (because of recent lava flows, newly formed sand dunes, or rocks left from a retreating glacier).

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Secondary Succession

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Secondary succession happens when a climax community or intermediate community is impacted by a disturbance. This restarts the cycle of succession, but not back to the beginning—soil and nutrients are still present.

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Temperate weather

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Weather conditions that are neither very hot nor very cold. Temperate plants grow naturally in places where the weather is neither very hot nor very cold.

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Greenhouse Gas

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Any gas that has the property of absorbing infrared radiation (net heat energy) emitted from Earth’s surface and reradiating it back to Earth’s surface, thus contributing to the greenhouse effect. Carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor are the most important greenhouse gases.

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Biome

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An area that has a specific climate and the plants that have adapted to thrive there.

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Ponds and Lakes

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Standing fresh water both large and small scale

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Estuary

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Area where ocean and river water mix

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Intertidal Zone

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Marine area where waves crash on shore and has drastic changes in tides daily

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River and Streams

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Moving fresh water both large and small scale

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Open Ocean

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Marine area that is a vast open space

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Wetlands

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Areas of land such as marshes, swamps and bogs

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Coral Reefs

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Most biologically diverse ecosystem, shallow warm water, protects shoreline.

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Abyssal Zone

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Darkest, Deepest part of the ocean world

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Photic (limnetic & littoral zones)

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Zone where light can penetrate

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Aphotic (abyss & profundal)

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Zone where light can not penetrate deep enough for photosynthesis

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Genetic Diversity

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Variation in the genes or inheritable characteristics that are present in a population

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Species Diversity

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The number of different species in a biological community

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Biodiversity

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The variety of all life on earth

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Extinction

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The permanent disappearance of a species from the biosphere

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Ecosystem Diversity

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The variety of different habitats for species to live

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Habitat Fragmentation

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Separating an ecosystem into small pieces

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Overexploitation

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Excessive use of a species that has economic value

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Habitat Destruction/Loss

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Clearing of or destroying of habitats

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Invasive Species

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Species that are intentionally or unintentionally transported to new areas where they modify and disrupt the habitat balance

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Biological Magnification

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The increase of a toxic substance in organisms as trophic levels increase in a food chain/web

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Climate Change

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Changes in the global temperatures, weather patterns, and rainfall

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Eutrophication

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Water pollution that occurs when too much fertilizer, sewage, or animal wastes leading to massive algal blooms

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Neutron

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Particle of the atom that has no charge

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Electron

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Negatively charged particle of an atom

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Proton

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Positively charges particle of an atom

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Orbitals

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The lines/circles outside the nucleus

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Proton and Neutron

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2 subatomic particles found in the nucleus

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Which subatomic particle is SO small that it doesn’t really have weight, just a charge?

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Electron

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Where are all the elements in the world listed?

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Periodic Table of Elements

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Covalent Bond

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Chemical bond formed when atoms share electrons: H2O is an example

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Ionic Bond

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Electrical attraction between two oppositely charged atoms: table salt is an example

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Genetic biodiversity

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The variety of genes or inheritable characteristics that re present in a population.

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Species Biodiversity

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The number of different species and the relative abundance of each species in a biological community.

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Ecosystem diversity

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The variety of ecosystems present in the biosphere.

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Threats to biodiversity

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Extinction, overexploitation, habitat loss, fragmentation of habitat, climate change

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Maintaining biodiversity

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Renewable resources, sustainable use, protecting through conservation

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Biodiversity Hot Spot

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Ecosystems where endemic species are threatened with extinction.

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What are the 8 characteristics of life?

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  1. Made of 1 or more cells
  2. Displays organization
  3. Grows and develops
  4. Reproduces
  5. Responds to internal and external stimuli
  6. Requires energy in the form of food
  7. Maintains homeostasis
  8. Adaptations over time
84
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What are the 5 levels of organization?

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  1. atoms/molecules
  2. cell
  3. tissue
  4. organ
  5. organ systems
85
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Give an example of the 5 levels of organization.

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  1. atom/molecule
  2. heart cell
  3. heart tissue
  4. heart
  5. circulatory system

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