Dynamic Earth
What is the outermost layer of the Earth's core named when it is thicker and less dense?
Continental crust
What is the largest organ in the human body?
Skin
What is the process by which plants use sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into energy?
Photosynthesis
What type of wave moves particles perpendicular to the direction of energy transfer?
Transverse Waves
In a chemical equation, what do we call the substances that are present before the reaction occurs?
Reactants
What process drives the movement of tectonic plates?
Mantle Convection
What is the name of the condition where the body's immune system mistakenly attacks its own healthy cells, leading to inflammation and damage to organs?
Auto immune disease
What is the ecological term for the maximum number of individuals of a species that an environment can sustainably support?
Carrying Capacity
What type of wave moves particles parallel to the direction of energy transfer?
Longitudinal Waves
What is the term for a chemical reaction where a substance combines with oxygen to release energy?
Combustion
what is the term for the process in which oceanic crust is pushed beneath continental crust at convergent boundaries?
Subduction
Which disease is characterized by high levels of glucose in the blood due to either insulin resistance or the inability to produce insulin?
Diabetes
what is an example of a density-dependent factor that regulates population growth in an ecosystem?
Disease spread
Which seismic waves are the fastest and travel through both solids and liquids?
P-Waves
What reaction is this 2Al+3Br2→2AlBr3?
Synthesis reaction
What is a Human being by the name of Wegner made thus theory. What was thus theory?
Continental Drift
What is the only bone in the human body not connected to any other bone?
The hyoid bone
In an ecosystem, the energy transfer between trophic levels is typically inefficient. Approximately what percentage of energy is passed on to the next trophic level in a food chain?
10%
What phenomenon occurs when two waves meet and combine to produce a wave with greater, smaller, or the same amplitude?
Interfernce
In the reaction between hydrochloric acid (HCl) and sodium hydroxide (NaOH), what is the name of the reaction product other than water?
Sodium chloride
Which geological phenomenon can result when a mantle plume rises beneath a tectonic plate?
Volcanic Hotspot
What neurodegenerative disease is caused by the accumulation of misfolded prion proteins in the brain?
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Which ecological principle explains why two species competing for the exact same resources cannot stably coexist in the same place over time?
Competetive Exclusion Principle
What is the quantum mechanical concept that describes particles, such as electrons, behaving as waves?
Wave-particle duality
Which theory explains the rate of a chemical reaction based on the energy and orientation of colliding particles?
Collision Theory