The Earth-The Sun-The Moon
Earth Structure
Energy of Life
A Changing Earth
Cell Structure
Reproduction
Grab Bag
100
The motion of the Earth around the sun.
Orbit / Revolution
100
The two types of crust.
Continental Crust & Oceanic Crust
100
Plants use this process to convert carbon dioxide and water into sugar and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
100
Identify the difference between weathering, erosion, and deposition.
weathering - breaking down a rock
erosion - moving a rock
deposition - putting the eroded pieces of rock onto the ground
100
A cell with no nucleus or other organelles.
What is a prokaryote?
100
Period of cell growth.
What is interphase
100
Which of the resource cycles serves as a reservoir for all of the others?
Rock Cycle
200
What other objects in our Solar System, besides planets or moons, also orbit the sun.
Comets and Asteroids
200
Which part of the Earth do tectonic plates float around on?
Asthenosphere / Upper Mantle
200
This is the molecule that serves as the energy currency for the cell. It has three phosphate groups.
What is ATP?
200
The ____________ of hot rocks in the mantle and the sinking of cool, dense ___________ crust drives plate tectonics
Convection, oceanic
200
What are the four types of macromolecules that make up all organisms?
Proteins, Carbohydrates, Lipids, Nucleic Acids
200
Phase of mitosis in which the nuclear envelope disappears.
What is prophase?
200
Name the three categories of natural resources that define how long they will last.
Renewable
Non-renewable
Inexhaustible
300
What type of tide has least difference in water level height between high and low tides.
Neap Tides
300
DAILY DOUBLE
The inner and outer core of the are primarily made of these two metals.
Iron and Nickel
300
A process that uses oxygen to release energy.
Cellular Respiration
300
What two major geologic features typically form at Convergent Plate Boundaries
Mountains and Volcanoes
300
This converts solar energy to chemical energy in the form of ATP for the light dependent reaction of photosynthesis.
What is CHLOROPHYLL
300
This type of reproduction requires two parents and creates genetically unique offspring.
What is SEXUAL REPRODUCTION
300
How many kilograms of a 100 kilogram radioactive isotope are left after 5 half lives?
3.125 kg
400
What is the orientation of the earth-sun-Moon system during a Spring Tide?
All in a straight line (Full Moon or New Moon)
400
What two things increase as you move from the surface of the Earth to the Core.
Temperature and Pressure
400
The Producers in this food web.
What is carrots, grasses and grains.
400
What causes earthquakes?
Friction building up between moving rocks and/or tectonic plates and then being suddenly released
400
The four groups of organic molecules or "macromolecules" synthesized by living things.
What carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, or nucleic acids?
400
This type of asexual reproduction allows for some organisms to grow back specific body parts, or create a new organism from a piece of the parent organism.
What is REGENERATION or FRAGMENTATION
400
The slope on a distance vs time graph tell you the ___________ of an object.
Speed or velocity
500
Draw and label all the phases of the lunar cycle.
500
Draw and label the structure of the earth.
500
The ultimate source of energy for making food that any animal or human eats comes from this.
The sun
500
Name four pieces of evidence that continents have moved
-Past climates have been different
-The same fossils across continents
-Same rocks across continents
-Continent shapes fit together like puzzle pieces
500
DAILY DOUBLE
What are all of the steps in the organization of life from smallest particle size to the largest possible area.
HINT - There are 13 steps
Atom -> Molecule -> Organelle -> Cell -> Tissue -> Organ -> Organ System -> Organism / Individual -> Population -> Community -> Ecosystem -> Biome -> Biosphere
500
What is the difference in the number of chromosomes after the process of division for meiosis and mitosis
Mitosis - the same number you started with
Meiosis - half the number you started with.
500
The force exerted on a cart is constant. On a frictionless surface, if the cart’s mass is increased, what will happen to its acceleration? Include which law supports your answer.
Decreases, because of Newton’s 2nd Law
9999
The result of the OWL being removed from the food web.
What is abundance of mice and possibly grasshoppers.