Nature of Science
This describes what something is. An example is the ________ of gravitational forces.
What is a law?
This is where all of our energy comes from.
What is the sun?
If B represents brown eyes and b represents blue eyes, a person with the genotype Bb will have a phenotype of this color.
What is brown?
This unit of measurement is used when measuring distance inside the solar system.
100 Bonus - Name the unit of measurement for outside the solar system.
What is an astronomical unit?
Light year
This is the unit of measurement is used for force.
What is a Newton?
Samantha created a hypothesis for her experiment, however, her conclusion disproved her hypothesis. What should Samantha do next? Should Samantha change her hypothesis to match her conclusion?
No, because research is never thrown away. It is just used to create a new experiment.
This type of symbiotic relationship is when two organisms both benefit.
What is mutualism?
B= Brown hair and b=blonde hair
Complete a Punnett Square with one parent being heterozygous and the other parent being homozygous recessive. Bonus for % of Brown vs. blonde offspring.
Bb, Bb, bb, bb = 50/50
One ________________ takes the Earth 365 days around the sun.
What is revolution?
Toby wants to go to Universal Studios. It is 172 miles away and he wants to get there by 10am. If he leaves at 7:30am, how fast does he need to drive to get there by 10am?
Speed = distance/time : 172/2.5 = 68.8mph
This describes why something occurs. An example is why can we find the same fossils in different parts of the world, because of the __________ of plate tectonics.
What is theory?
Water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide are needed for photosynthesis. What comes out of this process?
100 Bonus points for naming the process that uses the products of photosynthesis.
Oxygen and glucose are made and is used for cellular respiration.
This cell organelle is found in plant cell but not animal cells and helps in the process of photosynthesis.
What is a chloroplast?
This type of current moves magma under the crust.
What is a convection current?
Ryan and Jo want to arm wrestle. Ryan is pushing his arm to the left and Jo is counter pushing in the opposite direction. If Ryan is pushing with a force of 50N and Jo is pushing with a force of 65N, who would win the arm wrestle and what is the net force?
Jo with a net force of 15N.
Scientists create these to provide a visual understanding of their data.
What is a simulation or model?
An organism that is classified under this domain has a nucleus and can be either single-celled or multi-celled.
What is Eukaryota?
What is tissue?
This is the result of a continental and oceanic plate converging.
What is a volcano OR a trench?
This happens when light passes through water to create a rainbow.
What is refraction?
This is a limitation of a mathematical computer-based model used to analyze data.
What is human error?
A rabbit is this type of consumer.
What is a primary consumer?
Your skin cells, hair cells, and nail cells go through this type of cell division regularly.
100 Bonus points for naming the other type of cell division.
What is mitosis?
What is meiosis?
This type of fossil dating uses the Law of Superposition which states that layers on the bottom are older than layers closer to the surface.
50 Bonus points for naming the other type of fossil dating.
What is relative dating?
What is absolute dating?
A sea breeze occurs when there is a difference in air pressure between the air over the ocean and air over the land. In what direction does the pressure move and what temperature is the air?
High pressure moves to low pressure and cold air is high pressure while warm is low pressure.