APES Chapter Two Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. Concentrated energy that has a high capacity to do useful work.
  2. 3. Matter, energy, or information entering a system.
  3. 5. An attempt to discover how nature works and to use that knowledge describe what is likely to happen in nature.
  4. 7. Energy from resources that can be depleted and are not replenished by natural processes within a human time scale.
  5. 9. Feedback loop that causes a system to change further in the same direction.
  6. 10. Rate of flow of matter, energy, or information through a system.
  7. 13. Scientific results or hypotheses presented as reliable science without having undergone the rigors of the peer review process.
  8. 15. All compounds not classified as organic compounds.
  9. 16. Energy gained from resources that are replenished by natural processes in a relatively short time.
  10. 18. of Energy: Whenever energy is converted from one form to another in a physical or chemical change, no energy is created or destroyed.
  11. 20. The point at which a fundamental shift in the behavior of a system occurs.
  12. 21. Interaction of two or more factors or processes so that the combined effect is greater than the sum of their separate effects.
Down
  1. 2. Feedback loop that causes a system to change in the opposite direction from which it is moving.
  2. 4. Numeric value that indicates the relative acidity or alkalinity of a substance on a scale of 0 to 14, with the neutral point at 7.
  3. 6. Whenever energy is converted from one form to another in a physical or chemical change, we end up with lower-quality or less usable energy than we started with.
  4. 8. A chemical characteristic that helps determine how a substance dissolved in water will interact with and affect its environment.
  5. 11. Compounds that contain at least two carbon atoms combined with atoms of one or more other element(s).
  6. 12. Consists of data, hypotheses, models, theories, and laws that are widely accepted by all or most scientists (experts in the field).
  7. 14. A set of components that function and interact in some regular way.
  8. 17. Energy that is so dispersed that is has little capacity to do useful work.
  9. 19. Matter, energy, or information leaving a system.