Thermal hot spots
Lying out in the sun to get a tan.
What is radiation?
The physical appearance or visible expression of a trait (e.g., blue eyes).
What is a phenotype?
What is a phenotype?
Wegener said the continents were once one land mass? What was some evidence
What is Identical fossil species on different continents?
Positively charged particles in the nucleus.
What is a proton?
Scientist who proposed the theory of continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
This type of heat transfer occurs when you burn your hand by touching a hot stove burner.
What is conduction?
An organism with two different alleles for a specific trait, such as
What is heterozygous
This process occurs when a more dense tectonic plate dives beneath a less dense plate.
What is subduction?
Particle with a negative charge.
What is an electron?
Who made the first law of motion
Who is Isaac Newton?
Gamma rays are produced in the disintegration of radioactive atomic nuclei. These rays have the shortest wavelength and the highest energy.
What is Radiation?
The actual genetic makeup or combination of alleles of an organism
What is genotype?
The name of the supercontinent that existed about 300 million years ago.
What is Pangaea?
Most common element in the universe.
What is hydrogen
Who made the light bulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
This process occurs when warm air rises and cool air sinks.
What is Convection?
These are sections of DNA that code for a specific protein or trait.
What are genes?
Daily double
These features often form on the surface where two continental plates collide.
What are mountains?
This process occurs when the sun heats up liquid water and turns it into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
This inventor’s work with high-voltage, high-frequency electricity led to a device named for him, the 'Coil
Nikola Telsa
Daily Double
While you can feel radiating warmth to the side of a candle, this process causes hot gases to rise, making the air directly above the flame far hotter.
What is convection?
Different forms of a gene, often represented by letters like 'B' or 'b'.
What are alleles?
This is the approximate average distance Earth's plates move per year.
What is 1 inch/year (or 2-5 centimeters)?
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Law stating mass remains constant.
What is the law of conservation of mass?
The most famous scientist associated with discovering and naming "radioactivity"
Who is Marie Curie?