A theory first proposed by Alfred Wegner to explain how large land masses moved over time.
What is the Theory of Continental Drift?
This is responsible for creating seasons in the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is the tilt of Earth's axis?
A term used for animals that need to eat food in order to gain energy.
What is a consumer?
A combination of one or more atoms held together by chemical bonds.
What is a molecule?
A closed path that carries and electrical current.
What is a circuit?
A visual representation of how energy moves through all the organisms in an Ecosystem.
What is a food web?
The long-term pattern of weather in a particular region.
What is Climate?
The organelle responsible for making ATP (energy) that is used in cellular respiration.
What is the mitochondria?
The subatomic particles that are responsible for atomic bonding.
What are valence electrons?
The energy of motion.
What is kinetic energy?
The process of an oceanic plate being pushed down into the mantle by a continental plate.
What is Subduction?
A natural satellite that orbits an object other than a star.
What is a moon?
A type of allele that is only expressed if it is part of a homozygous pair.
What is recessive gene?
The equation used to find this physical property of a substance is Mass / Volume.
What is Density?
Any object that attracts the metal iron.
What is a magnet?
These are three phases of the water cycle.
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation, transpiration, or run-off
A boundary separating two air masses. It could be warm, cold, stationary or occluded.
What is a weather front?
The body's ability to maintain stable internal conditions.
What is homeostasis?
Color change, temperature change and formation of bubbles are all evidence that this is happening.
What is a chemical change?
The transfer of heat energy through physical contact.
What is Conduction?
All the organisms of the same species that live in the same area at the same time.
What is a population?
When the Sun, Moon, and Earth are in this arrangement, we would be viewing this natural phenomenon in the sky.
What is a solar eclipse?
A long term relationship between two species that usually involves the exchange of food or energy.
What is symbiosis?
A type of mixture that is evenly distributed and you can not see the different substances that make it up. Also called a solution.
What is a homogenous mixture?
A material that electrons can freely move through.
What is a conductor?