Cedarbrook PSSA Science
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Terms
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- Electronic communication
- System for the transmission of information using electronic technology (e.g, digital cameras, cellular telephones, internet, television, fiber optics)
- Biotechnology
- The ways that humans apply biological concepts to produce products and provide services.
- Biomedical Technology
- The application of health care theories to develop methods, products, and tools to maintain or improve homeostasis.
- Biological Diversity
- The variety and complexity of species present and interacting in an ecosystem and the relative abundance of each.
- Biotic
- An environmental factor related to or produces by living organisms.
- Desalinization
- To remove salts and other chemicals from sea or saline water.
- Closing the loop!
- A link in the circular chain of recycling events that promotes the use of products made with recycled materials.
- Engineering
- The application of scientific, physical, mechanical and mathematical principles to design processes, products and structures that improve the quality of life.
- Construction technology
- The ways that humans build structures on sites.
- Endangered species
- A species that is in danger of extinction throughout all of a significant portion of its range.
- Ecosystem
- A community of living organisms and their interrelated physical and chemical environment.
- Decomposer
- An organism, often microscopic in size, that obtains nutrients by consuming dead organic matter, thereby making nutrients accessible to other organisms; examples include fungi, scavengers, rodents, and other animals.
- Commodities
- Economic good or products before they are processed and/or given a brand name, such as a product of agriculture.
- Carbon chemistry
- The science of the composition, structure, properties and reactions of carbon based matter, especially of atomic and molecular systems; sometimes referred to as organic chemistry.
- Allele
- Any of a set of possible forms of a gene.
- Dichotomous
- Divided or dividing into two parts or classifications.
- Biomass conversion
- The changing of organic matter that has been produces by photosynthesis into useful liquid, gas or fuel.
- Biochemical conversion
- The changing of organic matter into chemical forms.
- Biomes
- A community of living organisms of a single major ecological region.
- Environment
- The total of the surroundings (air, water, soil, vegetation, people, wildlife) influencing each living beings existence, including physical, biological and all other factors; the surroundings of a plant or animals including other plants or animals, climate, and location.
- Embryology
- The branch of biology dealing with the development of living things from fertilized egg to its developed state.
- Composting
- The process of mixing decaying leaves, manure and other nutritive matter to improve and fertilize soil.
- Abiotic
- A nonliving factor or element (e.g., light, water, heat, rock, energy, mineral)
- Delineate
- To trace the outline; to draw; to sketch; to depict or picture.
- Consumer
- 1)Those organisms that obtain energy by feeding on other organisms and their remains. 2) A person buying goods or services for personal needs or to use in the productino of other goods for resale.
- Acid deposition
- Precipitation with a pH less than 5.6 that forms in the atmosphere when certain pollutants mix with water vapor)