Genetics
A physical characteristic like eye color or freckles
What is a trait?
A characteristic that helps an organism survive
What is an adaptation?
The unit used to measure force
What is a Newton?
The path an object follows around another object in space
What is orbit?
Opposite magnetic poles do this
The observable traits of an organism
What is a phenotype?
When a species changes over many generations
What is evolution?
A result of every collision
The reason we have seasons on Earth
What is the Earth's axis tilt?
Electromagnets only work when this is flowing
What is electricity or electric current?
An organism that has two identical alleles for a trait
What is homozygous?
Species with little variation are more at risk for this
What is extinction?
The ability of an object to bend and not permanently change shape
What is elasticity? *will accept similar answers
Summer temperatures are warmer because the Sun’s rays strike Earth more this
What is concentrated or intensely?
The part of a wave that determines how loud a sound is
What is amplitude?
A chart used to predict possible offspring traits
What is a Punnett Square?
When humans intentionally breed organisms for certain traits
What is selective breeding?
Shoes with grip increase this force with the ground
What is friction?
When the Sun appears higher in the sky, shadows usually become this
What is shorter?
Sound cannot travel through this
What is a vacuum or empty space?
The percent of an offspring to be heterozygous when there are one heterozygous and one homozygous dominant parents
What is 50%?
Organisms with traits better suited to environmental change are more likely to appear in later fossil layers because they were more likely to do this
What is survive and reproduce?
No matter the difference in colliding objects' forces, the forces are always...
What is equal and opposite?
The reason the Moon appears red during a lunar eclipse
What is red light refracts off the Earth's atmosphere and shines onto the Moon?
Stroking a paper clip repeatedly with a magnet can magnetize it because it...
Aligns the magnetic domains in the same direction