Genetics & Reproduction
What do we call a change in a gene or chromosome?
What is a mutation?
Fossils provide evidence of this process over time.
What is evolution?
The continuous changing of rocks from one type to another is called this.
What is the rock cycle?
Scientists use this to explain observations using evidence and reasoning.
What is a scientific explanation?
Using too many natural resources impacts these.
What are Earth’s systems?
This type of reproduction creates genetically identical offspring.
What is asexual reproduction?
Similar embryonic development suggests this between species.
What is common ancestry?
Earth’s outer layer is broken into moving sections called these.
What are tectonic plates?
A visual representation used to explain scientific ideas is called this.
What is a model?
The variety of life in an ecosystem is called this.
What is biodiversity?
This type of reproduction increases genetic variation.
What is sexual reproduction?
The disappearance of a species is called this.
What is extinction?
Heat from Earth’s interior drives this process.
What is plate tectonics?
Looking for trends in charts and graphs is called this.
What is analyzing data?
Human activities can increase this gas linked to climate change.
What is carbon dioxide?
Mutations can be harmful, beneficial, or this type.
What is neutral?
Natural selection causes changes in these over time.
What are populations?
Fossils and rock patterns on continents provide evidence for this idea.
What is continental drift?
Supporting a claim with scientific evidence is called this.
What is reasoning?
Cutting down forests destroys habitats for many organisms. This process is called what?
What is deforestation?
These structures carry genes inside the nucleus.
What are chromosomes?
What evidence do fossils, rock strata, embryonic development, and homologous structures provide about Earth’s past?
They show how organisms and Earth have changed over time. Evolution.
Minerals, groundwater, and fossil fuels are examples of these.
What are natural resources?
The factor changed on purpose in an experiment is called the variable.
What is the independent variable?
Using wind and solar power instead of fossil fuels helps reduce this global problem.
What is climate change/global warming?