Anatomy & Physiology (brain & CNS)
This largest brain region handles cognition, sensation, movement, and language.
What is the cerebrum?
The layer where ocean temperature decreases rapidly with depth.
What is the thermocline?
The physical appearance of a trait.
What is phenotype?
Hardness scale used to scratch-test minerals.
What is the Mohs scale?
Planet known for its prominent ring system.
What is Saturn?
These supporting cells include astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, microglia, and ependymal cells.
What are glial cells?
This deflection of moving water due to Earth’s rotation.
What is the Coriolis effect?
Mendel’s law stating allele pairs separate during gamete formation.
What is the Law of Segregation?
Mineral property describing how a mineral breaks along flat planes.
What is cleavage?
The dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt formerly called the ninth planet.
What is Pluto?
The myelin-producing cells in the CNS.
What are oligodendrocytes?
Western boundary currents like the Gulf Stream are intensified on this side of basins.
What is the western side—western intensification?
A cross following two traits at once.
What is a dihybrid cross?
Extrusive igneous rock with a glassy texture, often black.
What is obsidian?
Region beyond Neptune filled with icy bodies.
What is the Kuiper Belt?
This rapid, automatic pathway involves receptor, sensory neuron, interneuron, motor neuron, and effector.
What is a reflex arc?
Density-driven, global deep circulation is called this.
What is thermohaline circulation?
A diagram showing family relationships used to infer inheritance.
What is a pedigree?
Chemical sedimentary rock composed mainly of calcite from shells.
What is limestone?
The largest volcano in the Solar System, on Mars.
What is Olympus Mons?
Loss of dopamine neurons in the substantia nigra causes this movement disorder with tremor and rigidity.
What is Parkinson’s disease?
Ring-shaped coral structures surrounding a central lagoon.
What are atolls?
Rule used to combine independent probabilities (e.g., Aa x Aa for aa).
What is the product rule?
Metamorphic rock formed from shale with distinct banding of light/dark minerals.
What is gneiss?
The effect that causes a planet to follow an ellipse with the Sun at one focus.
What is Kepler’s First Law of Planetary Motion?