Science 1
What are the two large continents that formed from Pangaea?
Laurasia and Gondwana
Where do most tsunamis occur?
Pacific Ocean
What was the silt from the Nile Dam a source of?
Egypt’s famous soil fertility
Give the term used to describe hominids that have moved from place to place in pursuit of their daily needs
Nomadic
Why do most substances readily dissolve in water?
Water tends to break other compounds into pieces.
What is the result when an continental plate collides with another continental plate?
Convergent plate boundaries occur
What is a scientific hypothesis?
a proposed explanation of what has been observed by a scientist that might be true and testable.
What did Los Angeles do to bring water to its city?
Bought land surrounding river from the Sierra Nevada and channeled it into a 419 mile aqueduct
Perhaps the most promising replacement for water is the substance
formamide
The Soviet Union collapsed in:
1991
What commercial purpose are some marine sponges harvested for?
as bath sponges
At what temperature interval do Black smokers tend to emit their water?
Over 350 degrees Celsius
What happened to the Chinese population when Champa rice was introduced in the year 1012?
Chinese population doubled in the next two hundred years.
What was the great accelerator that caused skyrocketing human settlements in early societies?
Water
Approximately when did the Modern Period begin?
About 1500
What is the percentage of dissolved solids and gases in seawater?
3.50%
What are the cell walls of dinoflagellates made of?
Cellulose
Who led an anti-colonial coup in 1952 and evicted the British from Egypt?
Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser
Excessive nutrients due to runoff is known as:
eutrophication
According to the Mesopotamian creation myth, humans were created to be
Co-laborers with their gods
What does it mean for organisms to have a facultative mutualistic relationship?
They can survive without one another if they must.
Who is the father of taxonomy?
Carl Linnaeus
Give the formula for photosynthesis.
6CO2 + 6H2O → C6H12O6 + 6O2
As shift came about, what did human prosperity rely less on and more on?
Less on human fertility and more on rational planning and government coordination
The South-North Water Transfer Project involved which river(s)?
Yangtze