[BIO-240 FA5] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 42 pages long Study Guide!
29 Mar 2017
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Abiotic environment ( the house where life lives ) Biotic environment ( what"s living inside the house ) Scientific method: how we as questions about reality, then figuring out patterns, and using deductive logic. Atoms are the smallest unit of element. Elements are the purest kind of matter that exist. Molecules are two or more atoms physically linked. Protons (positive charge) + neutrons = nucleus. Electrons (negative charge) are outside, and orbit. Molecule = more than one atom together. Periodic table: every row and column has relationships in common. 75% of earth is covered in water. Liquid water is very unique to our earth. Mars, europa (moon of jupiter), enceladus (moon of saturn) and pluto may have/had water or ice. Nebular hypothesis - our solar system was born from a nebula, the planets may have spun themselves into masses around the sun. There"s a spinning chunk of metal that"s thought to protect us from ultraviolet rays.
