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14 Cards in this Set
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Potential Energy
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stored energy available to do work
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Kinetic Energy
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energy bein used to do work
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Energy
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ability to do work
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calorie
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amount of energy required to raise th temperature of 1 gram of water
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kilocalorie
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amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1kg of water
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Photosynthesis Equation
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no answer
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Second Law of Thermodynamics
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all energy transformations are inefficient because evey reaction loses some energy to the surroudnings as heat.
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First Law of Thermodynamics
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energy cannot be created or destroyed but only converted into other forms.
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Entropy
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tendency towards randomness
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Why does the amount of entropy in the universe always increase? (mastering concepts 4.1 pg 82)
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no answer
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metabolism
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sum of all the reactions in cells
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metabolic pathways
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product of one reaction becomes the substrate of another
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endergonic
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requires energy to initiate
(the products contain more energy than the reactants) |
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exergonic
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generates energy
(the products contain less energy than the reactants) |
