Chapter 7: Provider God Flashcards

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Anthropic Principle

Anthros = Man

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The universe has characteristics that suggest it was fashioned with man in mind

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Greenhouse Gas

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Atmospheric gas that absorbs sunlight, thus heating the earth’s surface

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Water Cycle

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Continuous natural process supplying organisms with water, by evaporation from the oceans, precipitation to the earth’s surface, and flow back to the oceans

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Natural Law

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A regularity of the universe

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Second Law of Thermodynamics

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The tendency of everything in the universe to spontaneously move towards areas where that something is in lower concentration

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Osmosis

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The spontaneous motion of water across a semi-permeable membrane towards areas of lower concentration of water

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Neutron

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A large, chargeless subatomic partical usually found in the nucleus of an atom

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Diffusion

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Spontaneous motion of a molecule towards areas of lower concentration of that molecule

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Proton

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A large positively-charged subatomic partical usually found in the nucleus of an atom

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Electron

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A small negatively-charged subatomic partical often found orbiting the nucleus of an atom

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Nucleus

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A double-membrane-surounded organelle that houses the cell’s DNA

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Atomic Number

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The number of protons in an atom’s nucleus (Determining the properties of that atom)

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Element

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Atoms and ions having similar properties because they have the same number of protons

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Ion

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An electrically charged arrangement of proton(s) with a different number of orbiting electron(s)

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Periodic Table

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Tabular arrangement of elements by atomic number, which places elements with similar characteristics in the same column

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Electron Shell

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A region of space around an atomic nuleus where electons might orbit the nuleus

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Compound

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A combination of elemetns that exhibits properties different from the component elements

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Covalent Bond

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A strong attraction between atoms caused by sharing electrons

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Ionic Bond

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An attraction between oppositely-charged ions

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Ionic Compound

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A compound composed of ions bound together by ionic bonds

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Hydrogen Bond

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A weak attraction between slight electrical charges on molecules

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Specific Heat

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Heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance 1 degree C

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Sovent

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A substance into which other substances dissolve.

Types of solvents: polar solvent dissolves polar substances; non-polar sovlent dissolves non-polar substances

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Polar Substance

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A substance with electrical charges ( vs. non-polar substance)

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Heat of Vaporization

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The heat required to evaporate 1 gram of a liquid that is already at its boiling point

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Fossil Fuels

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Fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas which are made of fossils of dead organisms

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Global Warming

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The rise of Earth’s surface temperature due to greenhouse gas increase (Especially CO2)