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Mr. K Lore
100

A cell that sends signals throughout the body.

What is a neuron?

100

The source powering all climate and weather.

What is the Sun?

100
Height above sea level.

What is elevation?

100

Where organisms get their genetic information.

What are parents?

100

The fossil on display by the American flag.

What is a fish fossil?

200

The muscle that assists in breathing.

What is the diaphram?

200

Sunlight hits this portion of the Earth more directly than other portions.

What is the equator?

200

When water changes from a liquid to a gas.

What is evaporation?

200

Different versions of a trait.

What are alleles?

200

Mr K's favorite animal

What is the California Condor?

300

This system is responsible for removing waste.

What is the excretory system?

300

The climate zones that are closest to the poles of the Earth and receive the least amount of sunlight.

What are the poles?

300
Oceanside is cooler than Temecula, and receives less temperature changes throughout the year.

What is nearness to water?

300

A term for the physical characteristics of a trait.

What is phenotype?

300

This ninja turtle used to be on the window.

Who is Michaelangelo?

400

Groups of cells working together to perform a function.

What is tissue?

400

The historic heating of the Earth.

What is climate change?

400

When a tall mountain blocks rain from falling onto the other side.

What is the rain-shadow effect?

400

Two heterozygous (Bb) individuals cross. What percentage of their offspring will also be heterozygous?

What is 50%?

400

Name one figurine that Mr K had displayed above the smartboard.

What is - cows, Yoshi, the villain from Avatar, Cayde-6

500

A nerve response that doesn't involve processing by the brain.

What is a reflex?

500

Warm air rises in the equator. It makes its way to the poles where it cools down. This cool air travels back to the equator. 

What is a convection cell?

500

A warming of the ocean surface, or above-average sea surface temperatures, in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean

What is El Nino?

500

Reproduction where only one individual is involved and it produces genetically identical offspring.

What is asexual reproduction?

500

Mr K's favorite band (Hint: there was a poster by the American flag for the whole year!)

Wo are Queens of the Stone Age?