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 possible 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 developed the theory of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
What do transitional fossils best support?
the Theory of Biological Evolution
If you are sick with strep throat and go to the doctor, you might get a prescription for this.
What is an antibiotic (or Penicillin)?
This is a mixture where one substance is dissolved in another substance.
What is a solution?
In the United States, which is responsible for ensuring the safety of the country’s drinking water?
EPA - Environment Protection Agency
In order to survive, all living things need:
What is space, shelter, air (oxygen), food, and water?
What is the name of the type of fossils of organisms that were common, that lived in many areas, and that existed only during specific time periods?
What is an Index Fossil?
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?
What is the smallest group in an ecosystem
What is an organism/species?
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 the chicken pox.
What is a vaccine?
These are the names of a row and a column on the Periodic Table. PLEASE WRITE IN ORDER.
What are periods and groups?
A leaking pipe is an example of...
What is point source pollution?
An organism that only eats plants
What is a herbivore?
This is the name of the original supercontinent AND what theory 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 a chloroplast?
Which best explains why the total mass of the product(s) would be less than the total weight of the reactant(s) after a chemical reaction? ?
Reaction was done in an open system. The gas went into the atmosphere.
This water quality indicator refers to how muddy the water is.
What is turbidity?
An animal taken by a predator as food.
What is a Prey?