plate tectonics
What causes the continents to separate?
mouintains and body's of water
The passing of physical characteristics from parents to offspring.
What is heredity
Most of the mass of an atom is concentrated in this central region
What is the nucleus?
This law of motion states that an object at rest stays at rest unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
What is Newton's First Law
Born in Germany, this physicist is most recognized for his theory of relativity and the equation
Who is Albert Einstein?
This type of boundary occurs where two plates move apart, leading to seafloor spreading.
What is a divergent boundary?
The Austrian monk whose experiments with pea plants laid the foundation for modern genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel
These positively charged particles are found in the nucleus and determine the atomic number.
What are protons
This term is defined as the rate of change of velocity.
What is acceleration?
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields (Physics and Chemistry).
Who is Marie Curie
This is the term for the process where one plate sinks beneath another at a convergent boundary
What is subduction?
A specific characteristic, such as stem height or seed color, that varies from one individual to another.
What is a trait
An atom with the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons is known as this.
What is an isotope?
This quantity is defined as the product of an object's mass and its velocity
What is momentum?
A French microbiologist, he developed the process of heating liquids to kill bacteria and created the first vaccine for rabies.
Who is Louis Pasteur
This type of plate boundary creates high mountain ranges, such as the Himalayas, when continental crusts collide.
What is a convergent (continental/continental) boundary
A segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait.
What is a gene
These particles are negatively charged and are found outside the nucleus in shells.
What are electrons?
This type of friction, which acts on an object that is not moving, is higher than kinetic friction.
What is static friction?
An Austrian monk and biologist, he discovered the laws of inheritance by conducting experiments on pea plants.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
This type of boundary is characterized by shearing stress, such as the San Andreas Fault in California.
What is a transform boundary
An organism with two different alleles for a trait (hybrid).
What is heterozygous
These massless particles are the fundamental building blocks of protons and neutrons.
What are quarks?
The rate of change of momentum is equal to this, according to Newton’s second law.
What is net force?
This Serbian-American inventor designed the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system and holds over 300 patents.
Who is Nikola Tesla