Physics
Chemistry
Earth
Life
Potpourri
100

Stored energy and object has due to its mass and position. 

What is potential energy?

100

The number of carbon atoms in a CH(methane) molecule

What is 1?

100
The layer of the earth where convection currents occur.

What is the mantle (or asthenosphere)?

100

The cell part in plants where photosynthesis takes place.

What is the chloroplast?

100

The gravitational attraction between the Earth and moon are the primary reason for this. 

What are the tides?

200

Energy of motion an object  has due to its mass and speed.

What is kinetic energy? 

200

The density of a bar of gold that is 600 grams and 30cm3.

What is 20 g/cm3?

200
The feature that forms when ocean plates move away from each other.

What is a mid-ocean ridge?

200

This type of animal eats plants and animals.

What is an omnivore?

200

These are the three forms of heat transfer. 

What are convection, conduction, and radiation? 

300

Heat transfer always moves from ________ to _______. 

What is hot, cold?

300

Name 3 signs that a chemical change has occurred.

What are: 

-gas forms/bubbles/fizzing

-color change

-formation of a precipitate

-temperature change

-combustion (burning)

-change in odor

300

Season occur on Earth because of these 2 factors.

What are Earth's tilt and orbit?

300

A section of DNA that codes for a trait.

What is a gene? 

300

Describe the process of convection.

What is when warmer, less dense fluids rise, and cooler, denser fluids sink?

400

The Law of Conservation of Energy states that ...

What is, energy cannot be created or destroyed, and instead changes from one kind of energy to another over time? 

400

The reactants in photosynthesis

What are water and carbon dioxide (and energy?)

400

4 pieces of evidence that support the theory of continental drift. 

What are...

1.  Fit of the continents.

2. Plant fossils.

3. Animal fossils.

4.  Rock layers.

5.  Coal formation in Antarctica.

6.  Glacial striations in climates too warm for glaciers today. 

400

Crossing these two genotypes results in a 50% chance of the offspring being homozygous recessive.

What is heterozygous x homozygous recessive? 

400

This weather event occurs when a warm weather front and a cold weather front collide. 

What is precipitation? 

500

Doubling mass or doubling speed has a greater effect on kinetic energy. 

What is doubling speed?

500

The number of water molecule that can be made from 2 hydrogen molecules (H2) and 1 oxygen molecule (O2).

What is 2?

500

Hot mantle plumes rising from deep within the Earth, independent of tectonic plate boundaries that form land masses over time.

What are hot spot volcanoes? 

500

Natural Selection is driven by individuals who can do these two things in their environment. 

What is survive and reproduce. 

500

State the levels of organization from smallest to largest for an individual. 

What are cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organism?

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