Nature of Science
Ch.2 Oceans
Ch.7 Reproduction
Ch.8 Genetics
Ch.11 Chemistry
Could Be Anything!
100

The factor in an experiment that does not change. 

What is a constant?

100

A large volume of ocean water flowing in a certain direction

What is an ocean current?

100

The new cell that forms from fertilization

What is a zygote?

100

The study of how traits are passed from parents to offspring

What is genetics?

100

A substance that consists of only one type of atom

What is an element?

100

This digestive organ is lined with tiny "fingers" called villi and absorption occurs here

What is the small intestine?

200

A possible explanation for an observation that can be tested by scientific investigations. 

What is a hypothesis?

200

The vertical distance of a wave from crest to trough

What is wave height?

200

The ability to reproduce without a mate and producing  many offspring

What are advantages of asexual reproduction?

200

A genetic factor that is blocked by another genetic factor

What is a recessive trait?

200

A type of mixture in which the substances are not evenly mixed

What is a heterogeneous mixture?

200

This cell organelle stores nutrients, water, and other things the cell may need in the future

What is a vacuole?

300

The expression of error as a percentage of the accepted value. 

What is percent error?

300

The vertical movement of water toward the ocean's surface

What is upwelling?

300

Type of asexual reproduction in which an offspring grows on the body of its parent

What is budding?

300

Offspring that have parents that are true-breeding for different traits (ex. purple flowering parent and white flowering parent)

What are hybrids?

300

The mass per unit volume of a substance

What is density?

300

The tendency of an object to resist a change in motion 

What is inertia?

400

Comparing what you know with information you are given in order to decide whether you agree with it. 

What is critical thinking?

400

The movement of wind and water to the left or right that is caused by Earth's rotation

What is the Coriolis Effect?

400

This type of cell contains only one chromosome from each pair (23 chromosomes)

What is a haploid cell?

400

What geneticists call how a trait appears, or is expressed

What is a phenotype?

400

Substances will change state when this is added or removed

What is energy?

400

This is the equation for density

What is density equals mass divided by volume? 

Or d=m/v.

Or d=m over v. 

500

Earth's distance from the Sun, 149,600,000 km, written in scientific notation.

What is 1.496 x 10km?

500

This has the lowest tidal range and occurs when the Earth, Sun, and moon are at a right angle. 

What is neap tide?

500

The order of the steps in Meiosis I

What are prophase I, metaphase I, anaphase I, and telophase I?

500

When multiple genes determine the appearance of a trait

What is polygenic inheritance?

500

What is the balanced equation for 

N2 + H2 --> NH3?

What is N2 + 3H2 --> 2NH3?

500

In this phase of mitosis, sister chromatids are pulled away from each other to opposite ends of the cell

What is anaphase?

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