Geologic Time /Earth's History
These include reptiles, amphibians, and mammals.
What are vertebrates?
The Sun is at the center in this solar system model.
What is heliocentric?
Atoms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons.
What is an isotope?
What is the difference between microevolution and macroevolution?
evolution on a small scale vs. large changes over time.
A widespread and rapid decrease in the diversity of life on Earth.
What is a mass extinction?
A pattern of stars in the sky.
What is a constellation?
This can happen if DNA mutates and changes a protein's building block.
What is a change in the amino acid (mutation effect)?
Why is antibiotic resistance not good?
health threat evolves due to overuse of medicine, making infections harder to treat.
This divides Earth's history into major events and life forms.
What is the geologic time scale?
A space rock that enters Earth’s atmosphere and burns up.
What is a meteor?
A peppered moth blending into a tree bark is an example of this.
What is natural selection?
How do you plot distance and time on a graph to show speed?
type of graph can show speed by plotting how far something moves over time.
Earth's early history, featuring the formation of simple life.
What is Precambrian time?
The planets closest to the Sun.
What are the inner planets?
These form when organisms are buried and preserved over time.
How do fossils form?
What is the difference between contact and non contact force?
Contact force occurs due to the contact between two different objects. Non-contact force occurs due to either attraction or repulsion between two objects such that there is no contact between these objects.
A period with humans, glaciers, and climate changes.
What is the Quaternary period?
Gas giants farther from the Sun.
What are the outer planets?
Structures in different species that show common ancestry.
What are homologous structures?
What is the classification system in order?
domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.