Forces, Motion & Waves
When the object is not in motion or changing motion (type of force)
What are balanced forces?
When two alleles in a genotype are the same
What is purebred or homozygous?
How many parents do asexual and sexual reproduction require?
Asexual requires one parent
sexual required two parents
The 4th planet from the Sun
What is the law that states "Rock layers on the bottom are older and any layer on top is relatively younger"?
A type of wave that cannot transmit without a medium
What is a mechanical wave?
When an allele is represented as a capital letter
What is dominant allele?
What are the two factors that impact growth (positive or negative)?
Genetics and Environmental factors
Waxing crescent
What moon phase occurs after a new moon?
When an species of organism naturally adapts to its environment over time due to beneficial traits
What is Natural Selection?
Three types of material light can/can't transmit through and at what percent
transparent=100%
translucent=1-99%
opaque= 0%
What is the difference between codominance and incomplete dominance?
Co-dominant is a a blend of both phenotypes
Incomplete dominance is when both show up in the phenotype
The type of reproduction that creates 4 daughter cells not identical to the parent cell
What is meiosis?
Sun, Earth, Moon OR Moon, Earth, Sun
What order of objects occurs in our solar system with a lunar eclipse?
A structure that is similar from a common ancestor but not used in the same way
What are homologous structures?
____________ = frequency x wavelength
What is wave speed?
What is the difference between genotype and phenotype?
The phenotype is physical trait, genotype is the combination of alleles
An example of a neutral mutation
When Earth's Northern and Southern hemisphere is experiencing equal day and night (12 hours each)
What is an equinox?
When humans change the DNA of an organism
What is genetic engineering?
What is inertia?
What are A, T, C, and G
A plant reproducing asexually
What type of reproduction is plant propagation?
The Sun has the greatest gravitational pull
What object in our Solar System has the biggest mass and therefore the strongest gravitational pull?
These fossils are 1. Unique 2. Widespread 3. Lived in short period of time
What are the 3 qualifications for an index fossil?