What causes the seasons?
Earth's tilted axis
What is the object that mainly causes ocean tides?
Moon (sun has very little effect)
How many spheres does Earth have?
4
What kind of rock is made by cooling magma?
Igneous
What are the 4 resources we learned about?
Air, Water, soil, and energy
What was Hooke studying under a microscope when he thought of the name "cells"?
Cork bark
If an organism is autotrophic, where does its food come from?
The sun
What sphere are we a part of?
Biosphere
When it is winter here, what season would it be in the southern hemisphere?
Summer
What force causes ocean tides?
Gravity
What sphere is a lake part of?
Hydrosphere
Cementing and compaction form what kind of rock?
Sedimentary
What is the term for "getting more by doing less"? It is one of the ways we can manage resources
Efficiency
What type of living things are made of cells?
All of them. Living = made of cells
What do you look for to determine if a cell under a microscope is prokaryotic or Eukaryotic?
Nucleus, circle in the middle
What does the prefix "auto" mean?
Self
What is the term for what the Earth does around the sun?
Revolution, revolve
How many high and low tides happen in a day?
2 of each
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What is the process that turns a metamorphic rock into an igneous rock?
Melting (into magma) and cooling
What is it called when someone does not get all of the nutrients they need to survive? It is often caused by a region's lack or resources.
Malnutrition
Where do all cells come from, according to Cell Theory?
Pre-existing cells
Are you unicellular or multicellular??
Multicellular
What kind of tide happens when the Earth, Sun, and Moon are in a straight line?
Spring tide
What causes day and night? (specific term)
Rotation of Earth
What is it called when the Earth, Sun, and Moon form a right angle?
Neap Tide
What does the Geosphere contain?
earth/rocks
What type of rock can a metamorphic rock turn into?
All of them
Name a fossil fuel
Coal, natural gas, oil
What is the jelly-like substance inside all cells?
Cytoplasm
What is it called when an organism must consume other organisms for energy?
Heterotroph
Who is the scientist that is credited with proposing all three parts of cell theory? (using the discoveries made by previous scientists)
Rudolph Virchow
What is the degree of Earth's tilt?
23.5 degrees
What kind of tide has the biggest tidal range?
(highest highs and lowest lows)
Spring Tide
What sphere is mainly nitrogen, and a little Oxygen?
Atmosphere
What is the process that creates a metamorphic rock?
Heat and Pressure
What is it called when we purposely use less of a resources in an effort to save it?
Conservation
Cell theory says that cells are the basic unit of _________ and __________ in living things.
Structure and Function
Describe yourself in terms of: Prokaryote/Eukaryote; Autotroph/Heterotroph; Unicellular/Multicellular
Eukaryote, heterotroph, and multicellular
Where is the DNA in a Prokaryotic cell?
Floating in the cytoplasm