Earth Layers
Rocks
Plate Tectonics
Natural Selection
Evolution
100
States that a layer of Earth is older than the layer above it and younger than the layer below it.
What is the Law of Superposition
100
The type of rocks that are formed from the cooling of lava on Earth's surface
What is Igneous Rock?
100
The Appalachian and Himalayan Mountains were formed by which type of boundary?
What is a convergent boundary?
100
A group of genetically similar organisms that can mate and produce fertile offspring.
What is Species?
100
Any trace or remains of a once-living organism that has been preserved by natural processes.
What are Fossils?
200
The diagram to the right represents a cross-section of a portion of the Earth’s crust showing four different rock layers, A, B, C, and D. Which rock layer shows the greatest evidence of erosion?
What is Rock Layer C?
200
These two things are required for the formation of metamorphic rocks.
What is heat and pressure?
200
This is created when an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate.
What is a Subduction Zone?
200
"a trait that makes it less likely that an individual will survive in a specific environment."
What is Non-adaptive triat?
200
A type of diagram that shows the relationship of organisms to their ancestors as well as common ancestry.
What is an evolutionary tree?
300
The largest known volcano in the solar system is on this planet.
What is Mars?
300
The movement of sediment from one place to another.
What is Erosion?
300
Name of the landmass before the continents drifted apart.
What is Pangaea?
300
This introduces variation to DNA.
What is Mutation?
300
A group of the same organism that occupies a specific area at a specific time.
What is a population?
400
The names of the Earth's four layers.
What are the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
400
The type of rock formed from the energy from the sun
What is Sedimentary rock?
400
Causes the plates to move.
What are convection currents?
400
The process by which organisms with advantages survive and pass their genes on to their offspring.
What is Natural Selection?
400
The random appearance of a new trait in an organism.
What is a mutation?
500
The crust plus part of the upper mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
500
The type of rock formed from the energy from Earth's interior
What is Igneous rock?
500
What are the three types of plate boundaries?
Convergent, divergent, and transform.
500
In natural selection, this is the agent that "selects" for or against traits of an organism
What is Environment?