🌍 Plate Tectonics
What are the large pieces of Earth’s crust called?
➡️ What are tectonic plates? (6.10C)
What is the basic unit of life?
➡️ What is a cell? (6.12A)
What is all the living and nonliving things in an area called?
➡️ What is an ecosystem? (6.13A)
What are traits passed from parents to offspring called?
➡️ What is heredity? (7.14A)
Who developed the theory of natural selection?
➡️ Who is Charles Darwin? (7.13C)
What type of boundary is formed when plates move apart?
➡️ What is a divergent boundary? (6.10B)
Which organelle controls the cell?
➡️ What is the nucleus? (6.12B)
What do you call a living factor in an ecosystem?
➡️ What is a biotic factor? (7.13A)
What carries genetic information?
➡️ What is DNA? (7.14B)
What is it called when organisms best suited survive and reproduce?
➡️ What is natural selection? (7.13D)
What landform is created when two continental plates collide?
➡️ What are mountains? (7.10A)
Which body system moves oxygen through the body?
➡️ What is the circulatory system? (7.12A)
What is a nonliving factor like water or sunlight called?
➡️ What is an abiotic factor? (7.13B)
What is a physical trait you can see?
➡️ What is phenotype? (7.14A)
In science, what does “fitness” mean?
➡️ What is the ability to survive and reproduce?
What type of boundary causes earthquakes when plates slide past each other?
➡️ What is a transform boundary? (7.10B)
What structure controls what enters and leaves the cell?
➡️ What is the cell membrane? (6.12F)
What is the role of a producer?
➡️ What is making its own food (photosynthesis)? (8.13A)
What do we call different forms of a gene?
➡️ What are alleles? (8.12A)
What might happen to a species that cannot adapt to environmental changes?
➡️ What is it may go extinct?
What force inside Earth causes plates to move?
➡️ What is convection in the mantle? (6.10C)
What two systems work together to bring oxygen in and move it through the body?
➡️ What are the respiratory and circulatory systems? (7.12AB)
What happens to energy as it moves up a food chain?
➡️ What is it decreases? (6.13B)
What is a Punnett square used for?
➡️ What is predicting traits of offspring? (8.12B)
Explain how natural selection can lead to changes in a population over time.
➡️ Traits that help survival are passed on, causing populations to change over generations.