8th Science CCDS Set - MidTerm
This is Will Morrissett's, so you know it's good.
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- carbon cycle
- involves C2 and C3 (pretend the numbers are lower case)
- Independant Variable
- Variable that you can change duringt an experiment
- Non-metal
- Don't conduct electricity well
- Producer
- Something that makes its own food
- Biotic Factor
- All living things in an ecosystem
- procedure
- show step-by-step process of the experiment
- water cycle
- involves evaporation, transporation, condensation, and precipitation
- Dependant Variable
- Variable affected by the change of the independant variable
- Absolute Zero
- When all atoms completely stop moving
- troposphere
- most dense layer of the atmosphere
- Greenhouse gases
- Keep heat in atmosphere to keep temperature consistent
- CFC's
- Chloroflorocarbons; they destroy the greenhouse gases
- niche
- an organism's lifestyle
- Ice Sheet
- Layer of ice on top of land
- Abiotic Factor
- Non-living things in an ecosystem
- Carnivore
- Only eats meat
- Consumer
- Eats others for energy
- Ice Berg
- Seperated block of ice floating in water
- Metal
- A conduct electricity, are ductile, and malleable
- habitat
- an organism's physical environment, in which it lives
- gas
- most brownian motion
- Herbivore
- Only eats plants
- Montreal Protocol
- Signed by 100 countries to limit use of Chloroflorocarbons
- control group
- group that is constantly being compared to during thre experiment
- Ice Shelf
- Extending from land into water