Plate Tectonics
This term causes two or more lithospheric plates to move toward each other and collide.
What is a convergent boundary?
A specific characteristic of an organism.
What are traits?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
A push or pull acting upon an object.
What is force?
Formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This term is a linear feature where two tectonic plates move apart, allowing magma to rise from the mantle and create new crust.
What is a divergent boundary?
The genetic makeup of an organism, represented by letters.
What are genotypes?
The fundamental, smallest unit of an element.
What is an atom?
Energy of motion.
What is kinetic energy?
Provided evidence for heliocentrism and laid foundations for modern observational astronomy.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
This term causes two plates collide and the denser, colder plate (usually oceanic crust) sinks beneath a lighter plate into the Earth’s mantle.
What is a subduction zone?
The physical appearance or visible traits of an organism.
What are phenotypes?
A pure substance that cannot be broken down further.
What is an element?
The attractive force between two objects with mass.
What is gravity?
Proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection in On the Origin of Species.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This term causes two plates to slide horizontally past each other, parallel to their boundary line.
What is a transform boundary?
A diagram used to predict the possible genetic outcomes of a cross between parents.
What is a punnett square?
Particle with no charge in the nucleus.
What is a neutron?
Stored energy based on position or structure.
What is potential energy?
Developed pasteurization and vaccines for rabies and anthrax.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
The partially molten layer under the lithosphere on which plates move.
What is an Asthenosphere?
A chart that tracks which members of a family have a particular trait.
What is a pedigree?
Amount of mass per unit volume.
What is density?
The tendency of an object to resist changes in motion.
What is inertia?
Pioneered research on radioactivity, winning Nobel Prizes in both physics and chemistry.
Who is Marie Curie?