Motion & Speed
If a plane flies 1,000 miles in 2 hours, this is its average speed.
What is 500 mph?
This organelle is like a storage warehouse, holding water, food, or waste; it is very large in plant cells.
What is a Vacuole?
This Law of Motion explains why you should always wear a seatbelt to prevent your body from flying forward during a crash.
What is Newton’s 1st Law / Inertia?
This is the theory that Earth's outer shell is divided into several plates that glide over the mantle.
What is Plate Tectonics?
Why do we shed our hair?
Our hair follicle dies and needs to regrow.
This is the primary difference between speed and velocity.
What is Direction?
If "B" is for Brown hair and "b" is for blonde hair, this is the phenotype of a person with the genotype Bb.
What is Brown hair?
This is the force that acts between two objects that are touching as they move past each other, like a sled on snow.
What is Sliding Friction?
This is the specific type of plate boundary where the San Andreas Fault is located.
What is a Transform Boundary?
Why do cycles sync?
we smell Pheromones
On a Velocity vs. Time graph, a line sloping upward (diagonal) represents this type of motion.
What is Constant Acceleration?
This is the "shipping and receiving" center of the cell that modifies and sorts proteins.
What is the Golgi Apparatus?
According to Newton’s 2nd Law ($F=ma$), if you use the same force to push a heavy truck and a small toy car, the toy car will have a higher ________.
What is Acceleration?
When an oceanic plate is pushed under a continental plate, it melts and often creates this type of mountain on the surface.
What is a Volcano?
What animal did they bring back from extinction using bones they discovered and advanced genetic technology to make them?
dire wolves
To find an object's acceleration, you subtract the initial velocity from the final velocity and divide by this.
What is Time?
This term describes a trait that only shows up when an organism has two copies of that specific allele.
What is Recessive?
This is the force of a 50 kg girl standing on Earth (Hint: use $g = 9.8 m/s2)
What is 490 Newtons?
This type of heat transfer in the Earth's mantle is believed to be the "engine" that moves the tectonic plates.
What are Convection Currents?
Are cats bad for pregnant women or is it a litter?
Litter boxes
A car traveling at 20 m/s slams on the brakes and stops in 4 seconds. This is the car's acceleration (include the negative sign!)
What is -5 m/s2?
In a cross between two heterozygous parents (Gg x Gg), this is the ratio of offspring that will show the dominant trait.
What is 3 out of 4, or 75%?
This type of friction is the "drag" or resistance an object feels when moving through a liquid or gas.
What is Fluid Friction?
When two oceanic plates diverge, it creates this specific geological feature where new seafloor is born.
What is a Mid-Ocean Ridge?
How many dogs does your science teacher have?
3