Catastrophic Events
Something very harmful, devastating or causing sudden great damage and suffering?
Catastrophic Event
A scientist that studies the Earth's crust.
Geologist
Supplies human needs and are used to create synthetic(man made) materials like plastic.
Natural Resources
Smallest structural, functional and biological unit of all living organism.
Cell
The study of _______, which is a biological process where a parent passes certain genes onto their offspring.
Offspring grows out of the body of the parent.
Budding
Name 2 of the 3 environmental impacts of a Hurricane
Wind Damage
Flood
Loss of Organisms
Determines the order of past events but not the exact age.
Relative Age
Natural resources are....
Renewable
Nonrenewable
Thread-like molecules that carry heredity information.
Chromosomes
_______ are found in the nucleus of a cell and carry genes.
Chromosomes
Natural resources can be..
Renewable
Nonrenewable
A result of tectonic movement along the faults?
Earthquake
Special fossils that indicate the boundaries in geological time.
Index Fossils
These resources are continuously available.
Sun(solar energy)
Air/wind
Soil
DNA contains the _________ an organism needs to develop, live, and reproduce.
Instructions
These are variants(differences) in a gene and occur on a fixed spot on a chromosome.
Alleles
What section is the Mesozoic Era in the Geologic Time Scale.
Middle life
An overflow of a large amount of water beyond its confines?
Flood
Uses the decay of radio active elements to find the exact age of a rock or fossil.
Absolute Age
Humans rely on ___________ for needs and to make life more convenient.
Industry
Occurs in some single-celled eukaryotes(with nucleus).
Binary Fission
_______ _______ carries 2 copies of the same dominant allele. (BB)
Homozygous Dominant
One tool scientist use to measure flooding is a ______.
Streamgage
Could cause death of organisms and bring down trees and knock power out.
Blizzard
This geologic time scale is broken into 3 parts: Hadean, Archean and Proterozoic.
Precambrian
Besides the sun(solar energy), air/wind and soil, name 3 of the other 7 natural resources.
Stone, sand, minerals, livestock, fish, birds, plants
A process by which new organisms arise without production of seeds or spores.
Vegetative Reproduction.
A diagram used by geneticists to determine the ______ of an offspring having a particular phenotype.
probability
Punnett Square examines ______ of the many genes that get passed on during sexual reproduction.
One