Light & Sound Waves
Type of electromagnetic radiation with the longest wavelength.
What are radio waves?
Plate boundary where two tectonic plates collide.
What is a convergent boundary?
Type of rock formed by sediments compacting and cementing together.
What is sedimentary rock?
How earthquakes are detected.
What is a seismograph?
Resources that can be replenished in a short amount of time.
What are renewable resources?
Any heritable change within a population across generations.
What is evolution?
Chromosomes are X-shaped, tightly coiled strands of this genetic material.
What is DNA?
Trait that is only expressed if the individual receives a copy of the gene from both parents.
What is recessive?
Color of visible light with the highest frequency.
What is violet?
Plate boundary where two plates slide past each other.
What is a transform boundary?
Type of rock formed when magma cools.
What is igneous rock?
The system in which sensors on the ocean floor detect seismic activity and report data to tsunami centers.
What is DART (Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis)?
Nonrenewable, energy-rich substances that are formed from the remains of dead organisms over millions of years.
What are fossil fuels?
The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
What is natural selection?
A segment of DNA that codes for a protein. Proteins control the expression of traits.
What is a gene?
Allele that can overpower another allele.
What is dominant?
Sound waves require a medium to travel, such as air or water. What kind of wave is a sound wave?
What is mechanical?
What three types of landforms are formed at convergent boundaries?
What are mountains, volcanoes, and islands?
Type of rock formed when one type of rock turns into another type of rock due to extreme heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
Type of technology that uses radio waves to detect thunderstorms.
What is Doppler radar?
The primary effect of increased carbon emissions in the atmosphere.
What is global warming?
The study of bodily structures to find the similarities and differences between organisms.
What is comparative anatomy?
The four nucleotide bases of DNA.
What are adenine, thymine (uracil), guanine, and cytosine?
Genotype of a homozygous dominant gene. Pick any letter you want.
What is BB?
The pitch of a sound is associated with this property of waves.
What is frequency?
When one tectonic plate moves underneath another tectonic plate.
What is subduction zone?
The breaking down of rocks on Earth's surface.
What is weathering?
Measures hurricane intensity.
What is the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale?
Nuclear energy is an example of this type of resource.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
Reduced body parts that have little to no function anymore.
What are vestigial structures?
A sequence of three nucleotide bases that codes for an amino acid.
What is a codon?
When the alleles in the genotype are different.
What is heterozygous?
Type of electromagnetic radiation that can be detected as heat.
What is infrared radiation?
What three types of landforms are created by divergent boundaries?
What is new crust, rift valleys, and mid-ocean ridges?
The movement of sediments from one location to another.
What is erosion?
The Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale is based on these two properties of a tornado.
What are estimated wind speeds and damage intensity?
Percent of world energy supply that is dependent on fossil fuels (your answer must be within 5% of correct answer to get points).
What is ~80%?
Branch of science that deals with comparing DNA sequences between organisms that may share an evolutionary relationship.
What is biochemistry?
The building blocks of proteins. Proteins control the expression of traits.
What are amino acids?
An alternative form of a gene.
What is an allele?