Earth and Planets
He came up with the theory of continental drift, but was discredited due to a lack of explanation for the mechanism behind the motion of the continental masses.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
Plant cells have this organ, but animal cells do not
What is the cell wall?
A power source created by splitting atoms
What is fission?
The largest threat to the Amazon rainforest today
What is deforestation?
The name for the skull bone
What is the cranium?
The substance with the smallest particle size
What is clay?
Bones united by fibrous tissue, such as the sutures in the skull
What are fibrous joints?
This element's symbol on the periodic table is K
What is potassium?
The place where salty ocean water and freshwater meets
What is an estuary?
A modern animal that dinosaurs are known to be closely related to
Rocks formed by deposition and solidification of sediments
What is sedimentary?
Molecules of solvent, like water, pass through the cell membrane via this process
What is osmosis?
The most common element in the atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
The place where salty ocean water and freshwater meets
What is an estuary?
The formula for ozone
What is O3?
A type of star that emits a low amount of light and has a small mass and size
What is a dwarf star?
The name for the "kneecap" bone in the skeletal system
What is patella?
According to quantum physics, it behaves like both a wave and a particle
What is an electron?
This is an ecosystem with frequent snow, a permafrosted soil, and only small plants.
The method used in forensic science that separates pigments by placing a solution on paper and leaving the end of the paper in water
A tectonic plate boundary where the plates are coming together
What is a convergent boundary?
The name for the system including the skin
What is the integumentary system?
This principle states no two electrons can have the same quantum numbers, meaning a pair of electrons cannot have the same spin direction
What is the Pauli Exclusion Principle?
The ecosystem that covers 1/5 of the world
What is desert?
In epidemiology, the measure of frequency of new cases of a health condition in a period of time
What is incidence rate?