Circulatory System
What is the heartbeat you feel in your wrist called?
A pulse
What type of reasoning uses general ideas or facts to explain a specific case?
Deductive Reasoning
Name the three steps in the water cycle
Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation
What forms a sedimentary rock?
Sediment under pressure.
What are chromosomes?
They are twisted strands of DNA
What is a clear ingredient in blood?
Plasma
What do you call an educated guess about why something happens?
Hypothesis
Name three types of clouds that bring rain
cumulonimbus, stratonimbus, and stratus
What is it called where the Earth’s plates meet or crack?
Fault line
What made me have blue eyes?
the genes my parents passed on to me
What is the red pigment in our blood?
Hemoglobin
What looks at many cases to figure out what might happen most of the time?
inductive reasoning
What is the most biodiverse biome?
The Rainforest
What is igneous rock?
Magma that has hardened and cooled
What are the small pieces of information that form a sort of code on a chemical molecule called DNA?
Genes
What are two chambers of the heart?
Right & Left Ventricle; Right and Left Atrium
Tom has black hair. Mary has black hair. They have had 7 children, all with black hair. Therefore, Tom and Mary always have black haired children. What kind of logic is this?
Inductive
What layer is between the stratosphere and the mesosphere that helps filter out solar radiation?
The ozone layer
What layers of the Earth make up the Lithosphere?
the Crust and Upper Mantle
List two recessive hair colors
red and blonde
What are the colorless cells that stop bleeding by clotting?
Platelets
Boys go to the library. Laurel goes to the Library. Therefore, Laurel is a boy. What kind of reasoning is this? Is it right?
Deductive, because it goes from the general rule to a specific case.
No!
What is the only city on the global grid where latitude and longitude lines precisely cross each other?
New Orleans, LA.
What mineral is dangerous to inhale that people used to think was safe?
Asbestos
Name the four different nucleotides
adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine