Earth Science
These are the large slabs of rock that the Earth's crust is broken up into.
What are tectonic plates?
These disease causing microbes are not made of cells.
What are viruses?
This is the smallest particle of matter.
What is an atom?
This property allows water to stick to things other than itself.
What is adhesion?
This is the scientist who helped developed the theory of evolution with figuring out natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This is the scientist who developed the theory of continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
If you are sick with strep throat and go to the doctor, you might get a prescription for this.
What is an antibiotic?
This is a mixture where one substance is dissolved in another substance.
What is a solution?
This is an underground source of water that is under intense pressure.
What is an artesian well?
The is the variable in an experiment that the scientist has control over.
What is the independent variable?
This is the rising and falling of molten rock within the mantle that causes the tectonic plates to move.
What are convection currents?
This is the whip like tail that the euglena uses for locomotion.
What is a flagellum?
This is a disease characterized by abnormal cell growth and reproduction.
What is cancer?
This is the process by which nutrients build up in a lake or pond.
What is eutrophication?
This is the instrument that aided in the discovery of cells.
What is the microscope?
This is the type of boundary where tectonic plates move away from each other.
What is a divergent boundary?
This is a shot that you might get to prevent chicken pox.
What is a vaccine?
These are the names of a row and a column on the Periodic Table & which one is which.
What are periods are rows and groups are columns?
A leaking pipe from a sewage plant is an example of this.
What is point source pollution?
These are the three subparticles in an atom.
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?
This is the name of the original supercontinent AND the theory that states that the continents have moved apart.
What are Pangaea and continental drift?
This is the structure that allows plant cells to use photosynthesis.
What is chloroplast?
This is an atom that has gained or lost a neutron.
What is an isotope?
This water quality indicator refers to how muddy the water is.
What is turbidity?
This is, without a doubt, the greatest college basketball team of all time. :-)
What is Duke University!