Vocabulary Assignment 2

Define these in your composition book. Remember to number and underline each vocabulary term. Use Course-Notes.org

Quest:There will be a crossword quiz on this on Tuesday, September 5, 2012.

1. Abiotic features

2. Accurate 

3. Adaptation 

4. Albedo 

5. Biome

6. Biotic features

7. Climate

8. Community

9. Convection Current

10. Core

11. Crust

12. Deep Mining

13. Dependent Variable

14. Domestic Waste

15. Ecosystem

16. Fair

17. Fossil Fuels

18. Greenhouse Gases

19. Habitat

20. Igneous Rock

21. Independent Variable

22. Insolation

23. Insulation

24. Leaching

25. Mantle

26. Metamorphic Rock

27. Niche

28. Nuclear Fission

29. Nuclear Waste 

30. Open Cast Mining: Method, used when minerals are closer to the surface. A conical open pit is dug on the top of a kimberlite pipe, the pit increases in size as the mining continues.

31. Organism

32. Photosynthesis: (Water) + (CarbonDioxide) → (Glucose) + (Oxygen)

33. Plate Tectonic

34. Population

35. Precise

36. Reflection

37. Reliable

38. Renewable Resources

39. Respiration: (Glucose) + (Oxygen) →(Water) + (Carbon Dioxide) + 'Energy':

40. Sedimentary Rock
41. Toxic Waste