What part of the ear is responsible for amplifying the sound waves?
What is the middle ear?
What is the sclera?
_____ large landmass that existed when all continents were joined.
What is a pangea?
Which of the following choices best explains why grass on a distant hillside appears green?
A. Grass reflects all colors except green.
B. Grass absorbs only green light from the sun.
C. Grass reflects green light more than any other color.
D. Grass transmits green light in the same way that green -colored cellophane does.
What is C?
What parts of the earth makes up the lithosphere?
What is the crust and upper mantle?
What parts make up the outer ear? What is the main purpose of the outer ear?
What is the pinna and ear canal? What is collect sound waves?
______allows for the passage of light into the eye and it also focuses the light.
What the cornea?
What 2 hypotheses was developed to explain how the continents got to the current location? Who are the scientist?
What is continental drift and seafloor spreading?
What is Alfred W. and Henry Hess?
What are longitudinal waves? What are transverse waves?
_____ when two oceanic plates pull away from each other.
What is seafloor spreading?
Name the ossicles and tell the purpose of these bones?
What is the anvil, stirrup, and hammer? What is act as a lever to amplify sound waves?
The cones and rods are located in the ______.
What is the retina?
Explain the continental drift hypothesis.
Answer will vary
What is the doppler effect?
Where are the convection currents located?
What is the asthenosphere?
What makes up the inner ear? What is the main purpose of these parts?
What is the cochlea and auditory nerve? What is convert sound waves into electrical signals, and send to the brain?
Which part of the brain is responsible for transmitting electrical signals from the retina to the brain?
What is the optic nerve?
Explain the hypothesis of seafloor spreading.
Answers will vary.
What happens to molecules in matter when sound waves travel through them?
Why is it easier for sound to travel through a solid than a gas?
What is molecules packed tightly together?
Sound waves that are captured by the outer ear cause the _______ to vibrate, and these vibrations are then transmitted to the three small bones of the ________.
A. inner ear; middle ear
B. eardrum; middle ear
C. eardrum; outer ear
D. middle ear; eardrum
What is B?
Name each part of the eye.
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What is the difference between continental drift and sea floor spreading?
What is 3 interactions of light when it comes in contact with matte?
Answer varies
Name the layers of earth and give a characteristic of each.
outer, inner, crust, mantle