Natural Selection
Who was the scientist who developed natural selection?
Charles Darwin
What was the first and longest era?
Pre-Cambrian
The crust
What type of boundary moves towards each other?
Convergent.
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Spongob Squarepants
What does variation mean?
Differences within a population
What type of fossil is a hollow space left in a rock?
Mold
Which two layers of the Earth create the magnetic field?
Inner and outer core.
Which earthquake waves does the most damage
Surface or L wave
What type of rock is formed from slowly cooling magma deep within the Earth? (Be specific)
Intrusive Igneous
Which term means "change over time"
Evolution
During which Era did flowering plants first arrive?
Mesozoic
Who was the scientist who developed sea floor spreading?
Hess
What type of stress is found at the San Andreas fault?
Shearing
Name 3 Lab Safety Rules
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Explain the process of natural selection
The least fit die off and only the fittest survive long enough to reproduce.
What is our current Era, Period, and epoch
Cenozoic, Quaternary, Holocene
Name 2 of Wegener's 3 pieces of evidence of continental drift?
Fossils, Landforms, Climate
What type of Fault is found in a rift valley
Normal
Name at least 4 steps in the scientific method.
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Name an organism and explain how two adaptations allow it to survive.
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Describe the process by which a petrified fossil forms.
An animal is buried, overtime minerals replace the bone until only the fossil remains.
Why are the continents drifting? What is causing them to move?
Convection currents within the mantle.
Explain IN DETAIL how you would find an Earthquakes epicenter.
Measure the time difference between the arrival of S and P waves. Use that to calculate the distance to the epicenter. Do that in three locations and draw circles to see where they cross.
Why didn't scientests believe in Wegener's theory of continental drift?
Because he couldn't provide a mechanism that would cause the continents to move.