Earth Surface
Cells & Organisms
Ecology
Climate & Weather
Genetics & Evolution
Plants
Earth
100
The supercontinent that existed 200 - 300 million years ago.
What is Pangea?
100
The 7 taxons/levels of classification in order, (not including Domain).
What are:
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
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 mechanism that causes evolution.
What is Natural Selection?
100
It swells and becomes the fruit that contains the seeds.
What is the ovary?
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
The process plants use to create sugar (glucose) using sunlight and carbon dioxide.
What is photosynthesis?
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
The phase of mitosis in which the chromosomes line up down the middle of the cell.
What is Metaphase?
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
The site of photosynthesis within a plant cell.
What is the chloroplast?
300
The layer of the atmosphere where all life lives.
What is the troposphere?
400
The type of rock formed by intense heat and pressure deep inside the earth.
What is Metamorphic Rock?
400
All organisms are made of cells.
The cell is the basic unit of structure and function in an organism.
Cells come only from pre-existing cells.
What is the Cell Theory?
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
The male reproductive part of a flower
What is a stamen?
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 breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces.
What are weathering?
500
Part of the Cell Cycle during which the nucleus divides prior to the cell splitting into two cells.
What is Mitosis?
500
The biome depicted in this Climatogram.
What is a rainforest?
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 type of symbiotic relationship between flowers and pollinators.
What is mutualism?
500
The large snow storm formed when cold air blows over a warm, large body of water.
What is Lake Effect Snow?