Vocabulary
Rock Layers
Natural Selection
Human Impact
6th/7th Grade Material
100
The energy of motion
What is kinetic energy?
100
Put these layers in order from oldest to youngest.
What is c, b, a, d, e
100
The different traits within a population.
What is variation?
100
A limitation or restriction.
What is a constraint?
100
Energy within a system that is responsible for an object's heat.
What is thermal energy?
200
The distance from an object to the object orbiting it.
What is orbital radius?
200
The idea that an extrusion is younger than the rock layer it pushes through is called
What is cross-cutting?
200
The green beetle survives in the forest over the brown beetle due to...
What is natural selection?
200
A solution to trash pollution.
What is biodegradable material?
200
An example of a molecule with an extended structure
What is sodium chloride (salt)?
300
To lessen the severity or damage
What is to mitigate?
300
Items D and E tell us...
What are an extrusion (d) and a fault line (e).
300
Over hundreds of years of the cattle being in the wild, the average length of their horns increased.
The population of cattle likely had 1. (no/some) genetic variation causing 2.( all cattle to have long horns/ some of the cattle to have longer horns than others). Long horns are a 3.(beneficial/ harmful) trait. Cattle with longer horns are 4.(less/better) able to survive and reproduce.
What is
1. some
2. some of the cattle to have longer horns than others
3. beneficial
4. better
300
4 major earth systems
What are the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere.
300
The environmental factor that is being maintained when rotating crops.
What is soil fertility?
(Pest control, increased biodiversity, increase yield, erosion control, etc)
400
The variety of life in an area
What is biodiversity?
400
Puts rock layers in order by age
What is the law of superposition?
400
During the industrial revolution this type of peppered moth reproduced more often.
What is the black peppered moth?
400
A solution to air pollution
What is wind turbines?
400
The tool used to measure atmospheric pressure.
What is a barometer?
500
The average amount used by each person on Earth, divided by the total number of people on Earth
What is Per Capita?
500
The geological time scale is used by geologists to...
What is interpreting date of fossils, rocks, and major events?
500
Traits within a human population that increase the population.
What is: (bacteria resistance, virus resistance, heart health, metabolic rate, etc)
500
Relationship between population growth and deforestation.
What is the increase in need for shelter, businesses, paper (etc)?
500
The distribution of heat from the uneven absorption of solar energy.
*Major ocean currents
What is ocean currents affecting weather?