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The Earth's outermost layer, composed of tectonic plates, is known by this term.
What is the crust? (lithosphere)
The process by which sediment is transported by wind, water, ice, or gravity is called this.
What is erosion?
This process by which organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring is called this.
What is Natural Selection?
In genetics, this term describes the physical characteristics that are expressed in an organism.
What is a phenotype?
This law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's 3rd Law of Motion?
The theory that describes the movement of Earth's continents over geological time is called this.
What is plate tectonics?
The breaking down of rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
Charles Darwin studied finches on this group of islands to develop his theory of evolution by natural selection.
What are the Galapagos Islands?
These structures are found in the nucleus and contain the genetic information passed from parents to offspring.
What are chromosomes?
This property of matter is calculated by multiplying mass by acceleration.
What is force?
This man developed the theory of plate tectonics.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
This type of force builds up Earth's surface by creating new landforms, such as mountains or deltas.
What is a constructive force? (deposition)
A physical or behavioral trait that increases an organism's chance of survival in its environment is called this.
What is an adaptaion?
This molecule carries the genetic instructions used in the growth and function of all living things.
What is DNA?
This term refers to the resistance of any physical object to a change in its state of motion.
What is inertia?
This is the name of the supercontinent that once covered the Earth.
What is Pangaea?
This rapid destructive force causes sudden land changes and can trigger landslides or tsunamis.
What is an earthquake?
This term describes how species change over long periods of time due to genetic variation and environmental pressures.
What is evolution?
These different forms of a gene determine variations in a trait, such as eye color or blood type.
What are alleles?
When you slide a box across the floor, this force opposes the motion between the surfaces in contact.
What is friction?
Mid-Ocean Ridges and rift valleys form at this plate boundary.
What is a divergent boundary?
Over time this landform is created by ocean water washing up debris close to the shore.
What is a sandbar?
These are inherited differences that occur randomly and can lead to evolution if they are beneficial.
What are mutations?
This term describes an organism with two identical alleles for a particular gene.
What is homozygous?
The formula F = ma represents this one of Newton’s Laws.
WHat is Newton's 2nd Law of Motion?