Atmosphere/Weather
What is the closest atmospheric layer to the Earth's surface?
The troposphere
What’s the control center or brain of the cell?
The Nucleus
Why do you look like your parents?
Genetics
What type of force causes motion?
Unbalanced force
Give an example of an unbalanced force.
Answers will vary
What weather do thin wispy clouds indicate?
Calm weather.
How many cells does an organism need to have?
At least one.
What do chromosomes do?
They carry the instructions for how we look and work.
What happens when two students pull on a rope with the same strength in opposite directions?
The rope doesn’t move.
Two dogs are being bred together. One of the dogs is heterozygous for being brown. The other dog is homozygous for being gold. What is the percent chance that the offspring is gold?
50%
What atmospheric layer has very thin air, and molecules are spread apart?
The thermosphere
What is it called when organisms make their own food through sunlight?
Photosynthesis
What is the result of a-sexual reproduction?
The offspring are exact copies of the parent.
On a motion graph, what shows an object moving at a constant speed?
A straight line going up at a steady angle.
Give an example of an energy transformation.
***Cannot be potential to kinetic or kinetic to potential
Answers will vary
What are convection currents made by?
Warm air rising and cool air sinking
What does the digestive system do?
It breaks our food into nutrients.
How are gametes different from other cells?
They have half the chromosomes.
When a rock falls down a hill, ________ energy turns into _______ energy.
Potential, Kinetic
Explain how the circulatory system and the digestive system work together.
The digestive system turns food into nutrients, and then the circulatory system spreads the nutrients throughout the body by carrying it in the blood.
What are the four important gases in our atmosphere?
Nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and carbon dioxide.
***Must answer both questions***
Are the Volvox multicellular or unicellular? How does the Volvox get food?
They are multicellular. They perform photosynthesis.
What does knowing the genotypes of parents help us do?
It helps us figure out the traits the offspring may have.
What happens when one student pulls the rope with 100 N to the left and the other students pull the rope with 125 N to the right what will the rope do?
To the right
How are hurricanes and tropical storms made?
Warm ocean water evaporates quickly and rises, then bumps into cooler air.