Newton's Laws
Mitosis or Meiosis?
Plate Tectonics
Rocks and Fossils
Science Vocab
100
According to Newton's Second Law, force depends on what two properties
Mass and Acceleration
100
Involved in sexual reproduction
Meiosis
100
The type of boundary where two plates move toward each other
Convergent
100
The principle that in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rocks are on the bottom
Superposition
100
The separation of different constituents of planetary materials based on density resulting in the formation of distinct compositional layers
Planetary Differentiation
200
The type of force that opposes the relative motion of objects sliding against each other
Friction
200
Produces 2 identical daughter cells with the same amount of DNA as the parent cell
Mitosis
200
The type of boundary where two plates move away from each other
Divergent
200
The type of fossils that are the most useful in determining the relative ages of rock layers
Index Fossils
200
When the offspring’s phenotype is a combination of the parents’ phenotypes because neither allele in that pair is completely dominant
Incomplete dominance
300
The tendency of an object to resist being moved or, if the object is moving, to resist a change in speed or direction until an outside force acts on the object
Newton's First Law or Inertia
300
Involved in asexual reproduction
Mitosis
300
The type of boundary where plates slide horizontally past each other
Transform
300
True or False: Faults are younger than the youngest rock layer they cut through
True
300
A large plume of hot mantle material rising from deep within the Earth which can form volcanoes far from plate boundaries
Hot Spot
400
As the mass of the object increases, the acceleration ___________
Decreases
400
Produces 4 unique daughter cells with half the DNA as the parent cell
Meiosis
400
A type of convergent plate boundary where one plate slides under another
Subduction
400
Name two criteria that make index fossils useful in determining the ages of rocks
Distinct - easily recognizable
Abundant - many of these fossils exist
Widespread - found in many locations across Earth
Short geologic range - existed for brief period in time
400
When the two alleles of a gene are different, its genotype is ________
Heterozygous
500
Whenever one object exerts a force on a second object, the second object exerts an _________ and _________ force on the first.
equal; opposite
500
Undergoes DNA replication before cell division
BOTH!
500
Identify 1 feature that forms at each of the 3 types of tectonic plate boundaries
Convergent: mountains, ocean trenches
Divergent: mid-ocean ridges, rift valleys, volcanoes
Transform: faults, shallow earthquake
500
Write the order of layers from oldest to youngest
C, B, A, D, E
500
The material left behind by a moving glacier that is generally made up of rocks and soil forming a ridge
Moraine