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What were the first living things to evolve on earth?
What substance flows over the land from precipitation or melting snow or ice?
Methanogens in their gut enable what process in cows?
What is defined as maintaining a stable internal environment?
In a food chain, only about 10 percent of what passes to the next level?
What are the taste receptors found as tiny bumps on the tongue called?
What happens do the sound during a resonance?
What term describes a gene or sequence on a chromosome that co-segregates (shows genetic linkage) with a specific trait?
What is the name for an underground layer of rock that is saturated with groundwater?
What category of food includes sugars, starches and fibers?
What kind of ions are named by adding the suffix -ide to the end?
What is the layer above the troposphere?
Torpor, a process that leads to a decrease in activity and metabolism and allows animals to survive adverse conditions, includes what long winter 'sleep'?
The lithosphere-asthensophere divisions are based on what?
The interaction of what opposite factors describe a biome and ecosystem?
What makes up the core of the endoskeleton?
What are the three types of symbiotic relationships?
What is the most common cause of cancer?
What is the process of the blastula forming 3 layers of cells called?
When leaves wilt, what plant process ceases?
Echinoderms have a unique system for gas exchange, nutrient circulation, and locomotion called the water vascular system. the system consists of a central ring canal and radial canals extending along each arm. water circulates through these structures allowing for gas, nutrient, and this?
Most scientists think that ordinary matter is less than half of the total matter in the universe; the remaining part includes what mysterious entity?
How do organophostbate pesticides work?
Just under their skin, marine mammals have a very thick layer of insulating fat called what?
What results from the consumption of pathogenic bacteria, viruses, or parasites that contaminate food?
Fibrous root systems have many small branching roots called what?
Although some have suggested that the uvula is what type of organ, it actually serves an important purpose?
Every species has a characteristic number of what?
Underground rock in a molten state is called?
What phase of a human life does not have a definite starting point?
The vas deferens and ejaculatory ducts are part of what system?
What celestial object has been visited by manned spacecraft and is easily seen from earth?
Hard igneous rocks and easily dissolved sedimentary rocks respond very differently to what natural force?
Rounded grains indicate that the minerals eroded from what?
Cells infected with viruses secrete what example of early induced proteins, which travel to adjacent cells and induce them to make antiviral proteins, a sacrifice that protects the surrounding cells?
What is the term for the difference in elevation between two contour lines?
What color does red litmus paper turn in the presence of a base?
Many innovative farming methods can prevent what type of erosion, which is especially important in agriculture?
What two forces tend to keep an animal stationary and thus oppose locomotion?
When a predator kills and eats its prey, what sort of predation is this referred to as?
What doctors specialize in diseases stemming from glandular issues?
The length of a rectangular surface multiplied by its width is equal to what?
How many main types of diabetes are there?
What is the enclosed, fluid-filled membrane that surrounds and protects the fetus and is attached to the placenta?
What leads to the buildup of electric charges on objects?
Phase labels - and even special conditions - are sometimes included for the substances that are part of what?
What is the term for genes that control the expression of other genes within specific regions of cells in the developing organism?
What is the science of how traits are passed from parents to offspring?
What are the two most abundant elements in the universe?
Steam consists of what common and essential element in its gaseous phase?
What term describes the number of items in a given area or volume?
Two events are defined to be simultaneous if an observer measures them as occurring at what?
Hormones send what through your body?
During which process in bacteria do the chromosome replicates and the two daughter chromosomes actively move apart?
The most common carbon atoms have six protons and six neutrons in their what?
What is absorbed from food waste in the large intestine before it passes out of the body as feces?
The accumulation of what cells begin the development of the vertebral column and thoracic cage?
Graded potentials are temporary changes in what, the characteristics of which depend on the size of the stimuli?
What gems are created by mollusks, such as oysters?
What is the measure of how closely molecules are packed together?
What is the technical term for species that produce their own body heat and regulate their internal temperature independently of the outside temperature?
The laws of what field of science apply to galaxies and atoms, an indication of the underlying unity in the universe?
The nuclear envelope is a double-layered plasma membrane like the cell membrane, although without what?
What type of friction is friction that acts on objects when they are sliding over a surface?
Mushrooms are an example of what type of organism, which includes beneficial and toxic specimens?
Mineralocorticoids are hormones synthesized by the adrenal cortex that affect what balance, by regulating sodium and water levels?
What term describes a disease in which the immune system attacks the body’s own cells?
Algae is a promising alternative to traditional crops for what type of fuels?
Because it produces oxygen, what plant process was necessary for the evolution of animals?
Mammals are endothermic vertebrates that have four limbs and produce what type of eggs?
What does a pollinator pick up from its body and carry directly to another plant of the same species?
Breasts are considered accessory organs of what body system?
What hydrocarbons contain only single bonds between carbon atoms?
The most common elements have the most tightly bound __________.
Platforms, arches, and sea stacks are all landforms created by what?
What is a high concentrated solution typically referred to as?
What phenomenon sometimes causes harmful alleles to become fixed?
Angiosperms are also known as what?
Strangeness, charm, bottomness, and topness are properties of what subatomic particle?
Satellite and schwann cells are the two types of what kind of cell found in the pns?
What is the general name for saturated hydrocarbons?
Rather than being dead, dry, and brittle, what support structures of the human body consist of living tissues and are supplied with blood and nerves?
Mammals can feed at various levels of food chains, as herbivores, insectivores, carnivores and what else?
Ectotherms undergo a variety of changes at the cellular level to acclimatize to shifts in what?
When a species always migrates, what is this type of migration called?
Molds, pollen, and pet dander are examples of air pollution with what type of source?
Which type of glaciers form several unique features through erosion, including cirques, arêtes, and horns?
What happens when development of nervous system is disturbed?
Monosaccharides, particularly glucose, are major nutrients for what?
The measure of how much a given volume of matter decreases when placed under pressure is called?
Although lots of symbiotic relationships help both organisms, sometimes one of the organisms is harmed. when that happens, the organism that benefits, and is not harmed, is called a what?
The weather conditions in an area over time is also called a what?
Flatworms have a concentration of nerve tissue in the head end, which was a major step in the evolution of what organ?
Materials that can be magnetized are called?
Many adolescents experience frequent mood swings. name one of the causes for this.
What happens when materials return to their original shape?
What are the three types of isomers?
What happens when liquid water evaporates?
What type of work called occurs when a system pushes back the surroundings against a restraining pressure?
What is in the soil that causes mars to look red?