Earth Surface
Cells & DNA
Ecology
Climate & Weather
Genetics & Natural Selection
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Miscellaneous
100
The supercontinent that existed 200 - 300 million years ago.
What is Pangea?
100
The process in which green plants use sunlight to make their own food.
What is Photosynthesis?
100
An organism that must eat other organisms for food.
What is a heterotroph?
100
A change in the average conditions — such as temperature and rainfall — in a region over 30 or more years.
What is climate change?
100
The process by which organisms with traits that are better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce offspring.
What is Natural Selection?
100
Ms. Robbins' favorite color.
What is Green?
100
The source of all energy on Earth and the cause of all wind and ocean currents.
What is the Sun?
200
A plate boundary where two tectonic plates push away from each other.
What is a divergent boundary?
200
The powerhouse of the cell, or, produces energy for the cell.
What are mitochondria?
200
Non-living parts of an ecosystem.
What is Abiotic?
200
A type of storm that includes a vortex.
What is a tornado or hurricane?
200
Having two of the same alleles.
What is Homozygous?
200
Ms. Robbins' favorite bird.
What is the Blue-Footed Booby?
200
The transfer of heat through a fluid (such as liquid or gas).
What is Convection?
300
Molten rock outside of a volcano.
What is Lava?
300
Long, thread-like structures made of DNA and proteins.
What are Chromosomes?
300
The gradual growth of an ecosystem in an area lacking soil, often taking several hundred to a few thousand years.
What is Primary Succession?
300
High pressure (cool) air is created over the ocean during the day and moves towards land.
What is a sea breeze?
300
An change to the DNA/genetic code.
What is a Mutation?
300
One of Ms. Robbins' hobbies.
What is Painting, Baking, or Plants?
300
The body system that senses pain and touch.
What is the nervous system?
400
The type of rock formed by intense heat and pressure deep inside the earth.
What is Metamorphic Rock?
400
A picture of an organism's chromosomes used to study the chromosomes and look for abnormalities
What is a Karyotype?
400
A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is Commensalism?
400
Formed when a cold air mass runs into a warm air mass pushing the warm air mass up.
What is a cold front?
400
The differences among organisms of the same species.
What is variation?
400
Ms. Robbins' most disliked scholar behavior.
What is talking back/arguing with her?
400
Gases in the Earth's atmosphere allow light energy from the sun to pass through and then trap it as heat energy, causing our planet to be warm.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
500
The transport of broken down rock and sediment to another location.
What is Erosion?
500
The shape of the DNA molecule.
What is Double Helix?
500
The first organisms to colonize a soil-less environment, starting the process of ecological succession
What are Pioneer Species?
500
The effect of Earth’s rotation on the direction of winds and currents.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
500
The genotypes of the offspring resulting from the following cross:
Bb x Bb
What are BB, Bb and bb?
500
The names of Ms. Robbins's two dogs.
What are Diaz and Sancho?
500
These make up body tissues.
What are Cells?