What is the formula for calculating how much work is done?
Work (jules) = force (newtons) x distance (meters)
What is the basic unit of a chemical element?
Atom
Who is known as the father of evolution?
Charles Darwin
What is the basic unit of heredity?
Gene
What is the type of energy that increases with height?
Potential Energy
What form(s) of energy are involved in the digestion of your food?
chemical energy, kinetic energy
If an element shares the same group as another element on the periodic table, what is one thing they have in common?
Same number of outer valence electrons, same chemical properties
What is the process by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring?
Natural Selection
What type of allele is expressed only when two copies are present?
Recessive Allele
What is the "Skin of the cell" that surrounds every cell called?
Cell membrane
What energy transformation is taking place when you cook bread in the toaster?
Electrical energy transforms to thermal energy.
If an element shares the same row as another element on the periodic table, what is one thing they have in common?
Same number of electron shells/levels
What is the term for the gradual change in a species over time?
Evolution
In a Punnett square, what do the letters outside the square represent?
The Parents' Alleles
What process that produces energy happens to in the nucleus of atom?
Nuclear Fusion/Fission
Energy transformation is when energy changes from one form to another, energy transfer is when energy moves from one location to another.
When one element gives or gets electrons from another element, table salt.
What are the three factors that affect natural selection?
Overproduction
Variation
Competition
What is the term for an organism's genetic makeup of alleles?
Genotype
What is the name of a cloud of gas from an exploded star where new stars are born?
Nebula
Convection is the transfer of heat by cycle - where the flow of warmer particles rise up and colder particles sink down.
Define and give an example of a covalent bond.
When two elements share electrons (water).
What is the difference between artificial and natural selection?
What is the "factory of the cell" where RNA is read and protein is synthesized.
Ribosome
What part of a plant cell is responsible for photosynthesis?
Chloroplast