Genetics
What are chromosomes?
these are the remains of ancient organisms
What are fossils?
The highest point on a transverse wave
What is a crest?
Over 90% of all volcanoes and 80% of all earthquakes are located in the region of the Pacific Ocean called this
What is the Ring of Fire?
These are the 3 types of earthquake waves
What are P waves, S waves, & surface waves?
In order to show the probability of traits we use these
What are Punnett Squares?
a process where organisms with advantageous traits for their environment survive and reproduce more, passing those traits on to their offspring.
What is natural selection?
The distance between 2 successive crests or troughs
What is wavelength?
Two plates move apart at this type of plate boundary
What are divergent plate boundaries?
Most volcanoes occur along these
What are plate boundaries?
Having 2 different alleles
What is hetrozygous?
This is random changes due to chance that occurs in small populations
What is genetic drift?
This is the number of waves that pass a point in a given amount of time
What is frequency?
Two plates move towards each other at this type of plate boundary
What are converging plate boundaries?
This is the strength of an earthquakes
What is magnitude?
These are segments of DNA that code for specific traits
What are genes?
Similar underlying structures inherited from a common ancestor such as fish fins, humans forelimbs, and bird wings
What are homologous structures?
Sound waves are this type of wave that needs a medium to move on
What are mechanical waves?
One piece of evidence for plate tectonic theory is the fit of these like Africa and South America
What are continents?
This type of volcano has a wide base and gentle slope
What are shield volcanoes?
He is known as the Father of Genetics
Who was Mendel?
reduced or non-functional remnants of organs or structures that were important in the past (such as the human appendix and tailbone in apes/humans)
What are vestigial structures?
The bending of light as moves from one medium to another is this
What is refraction?
This is the main way that the plates move
What is convection?
One effect of earthquakes is the production of these enormous water waves
What are tsunamis?