Into the Abyss - Waves
Amazon of the Oceans - Ecotourism
Earth's Place in the Universe - Space
Are They Among Us? - Past and Present Organisms
Survival Stories - Genetics and Heredity
100
A technique used by some animals to locate the position of objects by producing sounds and listening to their reflections
What is echolocation?
100
The process by which pieces of weathered rock and soil are moved from one pace to another by gravity, running water, or wind
What is erosion?
100
True or false: half of the moon is always lit by the sun
True
100
The death of all individual organisms in a species, meaning the species can no longer continue
What is extinction?
100
A trait that “takes over” when only one allele is present
What is a dominant trait?
200
The wave property shown by letter “G”
What is amplitude?
200
An example of a greenhouse gas
What are carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and water vapor?
200
One of two objects that orbit the sun but is NOT a planet - asteroid, comet
What is an asteroid or a comet?
200
The gradual change in living things over many generations, due to changes in inherited traits
What is evolution?
200
The physical traits of an organism
What is a phenotype?
300
The wave property shown here:
What is wavelength?
300
The variety of living things that exist in an ecosystem
What is biodiversity?
300
The model that has the earth as the center of the solar system
What is heliocentric?
300
A developing animal that hasn’t hatched or been born yet and is in the earliest stages of growth/forming structures
What is an embryo?
300
A change in a gene which can cause a positive or negative effects and be passed down to an organism’s offsprin
What is a mutation?
400
The bending of a wave when it passes at an angle from one medium to another
What is refraction?
400
A natural process that traps heat in the atmosphere
What is the greenhouse effect?
400
Earth passes between the sun and the moon, blocking the sun’s light from reaching the moon
What is a lunar eclipse?
400
The Law of Superposition states this
What is that older rocks/fossils are found below newer ones?
400
The genotype Bb is called this
What is heterozygous?
500
This wave property affects the pitch
What is frequency?
500
A synonym for “per capita”
What is per person or for each person?
500
The cause of Earth’s seasons
What is Earth’s tilt on its access or the directness/angle of sunlight due to earth’s tilt?
500
A species from which two or more species have descended
What is a common ancestor?
500
Alternative forms of a gene, which affect the expression of a particular trait, such as eye color or blood type
What are alleles?