Earth Science #1
These are the two mediums S Waves can't travel through.
What is Gas and Liquid.
These are the three chemical layers of earth.
What is crust, mantle, core?
When it only takes one allele to show the trait.
Dominant
What force is always acting on an object.
Gravity.
The name of the super continent.
What is pangea?
These land features are long mountain ranges on the ocean floor where sea floor spreading occurs.
What is Mid-Ocean Ridges?
As the magma flows close to the inner core this happens to the objects density.
What is decrease?
The different variations of Genes are called what?
Alleles
What are the two types of energy?
Potential and Kinetic
An animal that eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
Name of the scientist who proposed continental drift theory.
Alfred Wegner
These are the three types of plate boundaries
Convergent, divergent, transform
Meiosis results in what?
4 Haploid cells
The scientist who discovered Gravity.
Sir Issac Newton
The layer of gases surrounding Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
This is the name of the current that moves magma in the mantle.
Convection Current
This occurs when an oceanic plate slides under a continental plate because of density.
Subduction.
Mitosis results in what?
2 Diploid cells
Newton's first law is the law of what?
Inertia
The phase of the Moon when it appears completely lit.
What is a full moon?
These are the three main pieces of evidence to support sea-floor spreading.
Poles Reversing, pillow lava and age of rock.
This is the term to describe the most dense materials sinking to the middle of earth when forming. Hint: It's really different.
Differentiation
This is the physical features we seen form reproduction.
Phenotype.
F=MA
These cause random volcanoes to occur througout earth, where magma finds cracks and make thier way to the surface.
Hot Spots.
When an Oceanic and Continental plate collide, what are the two land features that form.
Deep Ocean Trench, Volcanic Mountain Range
These are the genes that are interacting.
Genotype.
Describe Newton's Third law.
For every Action there is an opposite and equal reaction.
Scientists use these fossils, found over wide areas but only during certain time periods, to match rock layers of the same age.
What are index fossils?