Earth Science
This type of rock forms when magma cools.
What is igneous rock?
This type of reproduction produces genetically identical offspring.
What is asexual reproduction?
These landforms cause natural disasters, and are caused by tectonic plate movement
What are volcanoes?
Traits are passed to offspring through these structures.
What are chromosomes and genes?
This sphere includes all of Earth's water.
What is the hydrosphere?
This process breaks rocks apart by freezing and thawing.
What is freeze-thaw weathering?
This part of a flower produces seeds.
What is the ovule?
This layer of the Earth contains the convection currents that move tectonic plates.
What is the mantle?
A dominant gene will always do this to a recessive gene.
What is mask it?
This sphere contains all of Earth's living organisms.
What is the biosphere?
These currents in the mantle cause tectonic plates to move.
What are convection currents?
This genetic trait appears in the first generation of Mendel's pea plants.
What is a dominant trait?
Scientists used this type of evidence to support continental drift.
What is matching landforms and fossils across continents?
This term describes the passing of traits from parents to offspring.
What is inheritance?
This process occurs when sediment is dropped off in a new place.
What is deposition?
The Earth's tectonic plates are part of this layer.
What is the lithosphere?
This rare method of reproduction is used by female Komodo dragons when no males are available.
What is parthenogenesis?
Plate tectonics cause Earth's surface to do this over time.
What is change (or shift, move, reshape, etc.)?
Genetic variety is reduced in this type of reproduction.
What is asexual reproduction?
This type of weathering involves chemical reactions like acid rain.
What is chemical weathering?
This type of rock forms when heat and pressure change existing rock without melting it.
What is metamorphic rock?
Mendel's pea plant experiments helped us understand this concept.
What is heredity?
After a large meteorite impact, this forms and can alter the biosphere.
What is a crater?
These changes in DNA can introduce new traits.
What are mutations?
During a volcanic eruption, these four Earth systems interact.
What are the geosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere?