What is the tendency of some small portion of energy and matter to become more organized?\n\nOne can't argue that a tree is less ordered than the CO2 and minerals that formed it.\n\nWhat in the solar mill caused so much water to collect here on earth?
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The description of entropy as the tendency to descend into chaos is incorrect. Entropy actually describes the amount of usuable energy in a material. It has a statistical interpretation, but even that is closer to saying that the state of a system gets more probable over time.\n\nNext, when working with entropy, it's important to realize that it is only required to increase in a closed system, that is, one that has *no* heat or energy exchange with anything else. For a tree, there is a lot of energy coming in through sunlight. And, in fact, it is the energy of sunlight that drives the local decrease in entropy.\n\nThere is another quantity, called the Gibbs free energy, that is a combination of entropy, temperature, and the energy of a reaction that is more appropriate for non-closed systems. It is described by H-TS, where H is the energy of the reaction, T is the temperature, and S is the entropy. The Gibbs free energy is what must decreasein systems that are not closed (and under constant pressure).
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You have to remember plants did not cause the atmosphere to become oxygenic in the primordial days, cyanobacteria did. I'm guessing there are probably trillions of trees in the world.
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In the context of your question,\n\nA resource is a source of material or energy that may be consumed, changed, or dispersed to the point it is no longer easily usable. Examples would be copper ore, oxygen in the atmosphere, helium gas taken from oil wells, water, sand, or even soil. Anything we do consumes or utilizes some sort of resource. Breathing uses oxygen from the air. Copper is used for wiring and piping. Helium is used for scientific research and birthday balloons. Sand is used to make concrete. Water is used for drinking, irrigation, and generating hydroelectric power. Soil is used for growing crops.  None of these are exhaustive lists, just examples. \n\nOil: Oil is a mixture of organic compounds extracted from the earth by drilling. It is created from organic materials deposited in sedimentary rock that are altered by heat, pressure, and biotic processes to create it. \nOil is used to make gasoline, diesel, airplane fuel, plastic, shampoo, rubber, antihistamines, and many other products. \n\nNatural gas: It is an organic gas that is also extracted from the earth by drilling. It is generated by a similar process to that for oil generation. It is used to heat homes, make fertilizer, and some plastics. \n\nWater: Water is found in many forms, but mostly as either fresh or saltwater. Fresh water is used for drinking, irrigation, etc. Saltwater is not as useful directly to man, but is an essential part of our environment as the oceans both support food supplies and have a large effect on the climate. \n\nWood: Wood comes from living organisms- trees. Wood can be used for building many things, including houses. It is used for fuel and is the primary source of fuel in some parts of the world.
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"The Effects of Electricity on the Growth of Plants"\n\n\nWe had that topic last year.
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Physics class is just the begining of the journey, never the destination. Energy is the ability to do work. (standard textbook definitiion). It is also the second largest financial derivative opportunity right now (behind interest rates) -- fianancial definition.  It is a battleground for the next presidential election (political definition), and an excuse for not mowing the lawn (relationahip definition). \n\nGood place to go is wikipedia...\nThe term Energy (from Latin Energia and Greek Ενεργεια) refers to the ability of a physical system to do mechanical work.[1] It is a fundamental concept pertaining to the ability for action. The energy of a system can be quantified in many interdependent forms, but the total energy of a system is subject to conservation.\n\nEnergy is not measured as an absolute quantity, but as relative to a reference state or level. For example, a litre of water has more thermal energy when it is warm than when it is cold, and a car in motion has more kinetic energy than when it is at rest. It is important to realize that the selection of a reference state is arbitrary and has no effect on how a physical system operates, but that an informed selection can greatly simplify one's understanding of that system.
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Hot topic! Woo-eee. This is one of the creationist versus non-creationist hot potatoes!\n\nHere's why, some creationists say if the sun were shrinking steadily, then a  long time ago, it might have been so big and hot as to turn the surface of the Earth into a pit of fire. So nothing would be alive, say when the Earth was a billion years old.\n\nScientists who study the Sun believe that it is a huge ball of glowing gases and matter. Gravity wants to pull all the stuff together, to shrink it. Heat from nuclear and other reactions in the center of the sun wants to blast it all away, to make it grow.\n\nThe Sun seems to have reached a temporary balance point and so it is the size that it is right now.\n\nSome observations were thought to show that the Sun was shrinking during 6 years of monitoring.\n\nOther studies show that the Sun might sometimes expand and shrink at different times. Just like a candle flame will flare up and then settle down again.\n\nThere are no mainstream scientists claiming that the Sun has been STEADILY shrinking since the beginning. They are only investigating to see what might be happening.\n\nSome astronomy research about the possibility of the Sun shrinking has been used by some groups such as the Institute for Creation Research as evidence for a young Earth. The idea being that this research agrees with their way of reading Holy Scripture. Their view is that the Earth is not very old.\n\nOther writers point out that the astronomy research about the size of the sun is interesting and important work about small-scale, and SHORT-TERM changes in stellar structure. And it may or may not have anything to add to the creation debate.\n\nMost solar research and theory shows that stars are initially formed by coalescing matter -- they shrink. But only until a balance is reached. Then over long periods of time stars might oscillate in size as different types of chemical and nuclear reactions take place. Some stars become super-giants, others zoom outward and then crush inwards to tiny sizes. \n\nThese are just theories based on mathematical models and observations of different sized suns and novas. No one knows for sure in a secular sense.
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Obviously, don't get that stuff on yourself.  There is also the waste material produced (but all energy production involves waste which is the inefficient use of material in the production of energy).  Finally, remember that no one died at Three Mile Island.
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Where do all plants get their energy?\n\nnutrients from the soil for plants in the ground, sunlight for plants with green leaves.
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this is a difficult one. theres the initial 'soup' of early compounds that spawned life, theres the meteorite theory of cells from other planets gettin a start here, and theres a possible link between both. this may be that chemicals from the many rocks from outer space, the heat of the planet then, and the interaction of all the early substances may have harboured a good environment for a cell 2 form, with a membrane, enclosing some of these compounds within it.
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It will be easier to read the chapter where these questions were than reading the answers you get here.\n\nYou are better off putting answers in your own words and asking each question separately than in a list like this.\n\nLateral thinking may be needed too.\n\nConsider : - Gravity makes things go down, heat makes things go up.\n\n** Plate movements cause places to move north / south or up. How would each of these influence climate?\n\nJust read the chapter, talk to your teacher and LISTEN in class.
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If you REALLY want to know about this take a look at my source.  But I can summarize it for you.  Think of water as something that assists chemical reactions in a cell.  Without it the cell is powerless.\n\nWater also acts as a transportation mechanism to "take out the trash", as well as "bring in the goods."  As far as energy goes, this is something that is driven by the Kreb Cycle in the Mitochondria of a cell. This process actually produces water.
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Well, it would help if you were more familiar with English. "Phenomena" is plural. "Phenomenon" is the singular form.\n\n"Energy" has a number of different meanings, and comes in many varieties. In a general sense, energy is the characteristic that allows work to be done. The classic energy path for life on earth is: sunlight (nuclear fusion energy) is converted by chlorophyll in plants (chemical energy) to a form of sugar which the plant uses to grow. Animals eat (applying mechanical energy) the plants, which are transformed by chemical energy into sugar used for motion and for growing. Motion is mechanical energy at work.\n\nEinstein showed that energy and matter can be transformed into the other, with a tremendous release of radiation, another form of energy, and heat, also a form of energy.\n\nLiving organisms, in fact, convert what otherwise would be "wasted" energy into work and changes, so that entropy (a measure of how much energy there is in the universe) is reversed by living things.
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If you want me to use those specific terms it sounds like you're going to just copy what I write for your assignment.  I'd be happy to explain the process to you, by I'm not going to write your homework paper.\n\nThe idea is that plants produce food using energy from the sun, and all other life either directly eats plants or eats things that eat plants.  So all life (except some protists, that, like plants, can make their own food) lives on energy that the plants have harvested from the sun.\n\nI hope you already know what the laws of thermodynamics, photosynthesis, and respiration are.  If not, pay more attention in class or look them up on Wikipedia.  You should be able to figure out how to phrase the explaination in a way that uses those terms on your own.
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It appears to be in relation to energy production.  I have referenced a hyperlink to a PDF file that refers to this term with in its context...the file does have some English translation.
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i'M IN SIXTH GRADE, AND A GOOD SCIENCE FAIR TOPIC WOULD BE "WHICH SUBSTANCE CONDUCTS ELECTRICITY BEST". iT IS REALLY EASY TO DO AND YOU CAN HAVE LOTS OF GRAPHS. FOR EXAMPLE I HAVE 21 GRAPHS. AND MY WHOLE ENTIRE BOOK IS 93 PAGES LONG. \n\nHOPE i HELP YA!!
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The sun’s history \n\n5 billion years ago, a small cloud of gas and dust began to compress under its own weight, or if your a creationist 5000 years ago. As more and more gas began to be crushed on the weight of gravity, hydrogen within the core began to fuse together. This fusion processes, one still sought by earth's scientist makes hydrogen into helium, and release’s incredible amounts of energy. This energy is converted into tremendous amounts of heat and light, which forms the energy source for our planet. Imagine the power you could amass if you were able to corner the market on the amount of sunlight hitting the earth. The cloud from which the sun is formed, fortunately for us, did not use all of its gas and dust to make the Sun; that which was left over, less than one percent of the original material, formed the 9 planets. Incidentally Jupiter could be considered a failed sun, that didn't have sufficient mass to start the fusion process. \n\nLuckily for us in the real estate business the sun has 3 to 4 billion years more of prime building time. As the sun begins to age more and more of its interior will be converted into helium. Once the sun exhausts its source of fuel, it will begin fusing helium into heavier elements. The heaver element carbon, the primary new fusion product, gives off a lot more energy than the similar production of helium. This excess energy will make your property on the sun even more valuable, since the excess energy could be harvest for your use. In fact as the sun pumps out more energy it cause the outer layer of the sun to expand and will engulf the inner core planets up to Mars. This lost of prime real estate will make your investment in the sun even more valuable, since the available area for building will be reduced. Not to mention but the sun's color will change to a pleasing Red color, a nice change of pace from the current yellow/orange hue our sun currently has. .
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I wouldn't say that I'm anymore intelligent than someone else, but I did want to answer your question, so....\n\nYou are confusing the theory of evolution (diversification of species) with the theory of abiogenesis (life from natural compounds).  That's okay, many people confuse the two.\n\n1.  How did life get from soup to single-celled organisms?  From wikipedia, "J.B.S Haldane suggested that the earth's pre-biotic oceans - very different from their modern counterparts - would have formed a "hot dilute soup" in which organic compounds, the building blocks of life, could have formed.\nIn 1953, taking their cue from Oparin and Haldane, the chemists Stanley L. Miller and Harold C. Urey carried out an experiment on the "primeval soup". Within two weeks organic amino acids, the basic building blocks of life, had formed. While Miller and Urey did not actually create life; they demonstrated that a more complex molecule — the amino-acids — could emerge spontaneously from simpler chemicals, in the presence of an external energy source in an atmosphere largely devoid of oxygen (the experiment involved shooting a spark, representing lightning, into their flask of supposedly primitive earth-gases)."\n\n2.  How did the original cell eat and develop asexual reproduction?   You are putting the cart before the horse.  In order to get to the cell stage, self-replicating molecules had to exist first... i.e. reproduction & "nourishment"  was occurring well before the cell stage.  Also, what are you referring to with "nourishment"?  For a self-replicating molecule, nourishment would consist of other molecules that it could combine with to form more of itself.\n\n3.  In the "soup", how did primordial cells develop resistences?  Resistence to what?  I don't understand this question.  To the environment?  To viruses or bacteria?  You need to elaborate here, I'm sorry.  I think it ties into your next answer, but not sure.  Please read my answer to #4.\n\n4.  How did it evolve everything it needed if it wasn't in it's DNA?  Can you give an example?  Hmm.  I'm trying to understand how you are approaching this question.  Let's say you have 100 little cells, each a little different.  5 cells can withstand a higher water temperature than the others because of a mutation they have.  One day the temperature goes up and kills off the other 95 cells.  That only leaves the 5 with the mutation.  They scamper off and reproduce like crazy... the cell strain has just evolved a little.  Now repeat this a gazillion times with a dynamic interacting environment and there you go.