Genetics
Volcanoes
Earth's dynamic surface
Vocabulary
It's a mix
100
Molecules attached to our cells that can sense a stimulus and start a signal that can travel to the brain
What are receptor proteins
100
volcanic regions generated by a mantle plume originating from the mantle that melts through the overlying plate, not related to tectonic plate boundaries.
What are hot spots
100
Give me one example of the biosphere
plants, trees, animals
100
A detectable change in the environment. For example, light, sounds, touch, chemicals etc.
What is a stimulus
100
Humans have ______ Chromosomes
46
200
What is the relationship between a gene and an allele?
what is an allele is a slightly different version of a gene.
200
The downward movement of the edge of a plate into the mantle beneath another plate.
What are subduction zones?
200
The dirt and rocks are part of what Earth system?
lithosphere
200
a chemical reaction within a human cell that travels along a nerve cell to the brain
What is a signal
200
a physical characteristic of a person that can be passed down from generation to generation, like from a parent to a child
what is an inherited trait
300
in order for a doctor to test for a trait, a doctor needs a sample of DNA. Where can the doctor find this?
What is the nucleus of a cell
300
a tectonic region where a continental or oceanic plate is splitting apart and new plate material is created.
what is a Divergent boundary
300
what Earth System is shown here?
what is the hydrosphere
300
Special structures of tightly wound genes that are visible when the genes are outside of the nucleus.
What is a chromosome
300
Organelle in cells that contains the genes
What is a nucleus
400
what determines which allele each offspring will receive?
what is the child will receive alleles at random from each parent.
400
an indicator used to describe and compare eruption size based on the volume of material erupted by a volcano.
What is Magnitude
400
What is the source of energy that drives the surface processes
What is the sun
400
a tectonic region where a continental or oceanic plate is splitting apart and new plate material is created.
What is fissure vent
400
Materials that can be replenished within a typical human lifetime
what are renewable resources
500
The _____ of a gene determines the ____ of the _____.
what is "the code of a gene determines the shape of the protein"
500
a divergent boundary within an ocean plate where new seafloor is created, and a region with a high thermal energy flow and volcanic and earthquake activity.
What is the Mid Ocean Ridge
500
What are the 4 Earth Systems
Hydrosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere
500
What is the breaking down of rocks and minerals on Earth's Surface
hint: this is often due to physical and chemical processes.
what is weathering
500
Joe's mom has the colorblindness allele but is not colorblind because typical vision is __________.
what is dominant
600
The genetic code tells our bodies what amino acids to use and in what order to build our ____________.
what is protein receptors
600
What is the cycle of matter and where does it start?
the movement of material from the mantle and the crust, upwards through the crust and emitting on Earth's surface driven by the flow of energy.
600
What is a longshore current?
When wind is blowing and makes waves that generate a current along the coast
Longshore drift follows the longshore current
600
what is the process in which Earth materials settle out of moving water and are added to a landform or land mass, like a beach or shoreline?
What is deposition
600
What type of volcano forms at a divergent boundary?
what is a fissure vent