UNIT 1: Heredity
The two categories of reproduction.
What are sexual & asexual reproduction?
The 4 layers of the Earth in order.
What are the crust, mantle, outer core, & inner core?
The lowest layer of the atmosphere where life takes place & most water exists.
What is the troposphere?
The role of this federal agency is to protect human health and the environment.
What is the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)?
This character gets weak with kryptonite.
Who is Superman?
Most people have this many pairs of chromosomes.
What is 23?
The name of the German scientist that proposed the Continental Drift Theory.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
A wind that blows predominantly from a particular direction and impacts the climate areas.
What are prevailing winds?
April 22 of each year.
What is Earth Day?
The most eaten food in the world.
What is rice?
The section of DNA that codes for a specific trait.
What is a gene?
The type of plate boundary where plates slide past each other.
What is a transform plate boundary?
What is high pressure?
A resource that can be used over and over and will likely never run out or it will replace itself fairly quickly.
What is a renewable resource?
In Harry Potter, this is a broom game with a Snitch.
What is Quidditch?
Fill in the blank:
____________ determines phenotype.
What is genotype?
The law that states "In an undisturbed layer of rock, the oldest layer is on the bottom, and the youngest layer is on the top."
What is The Law of Superposition?
This type of air mass forms over water near the equator.
What is maritime tropical?
What is the ozone layer?
The animal whose name means "river horse."
What is a hippopotamus?
Individuals carrying two different alleles (Rr) for a trait.
What is heterozygous?
The fossil that showed the evolutionary link between fish and land animals.
What is Tiktaalik?
A group of symbols that depict weather information for a location on a weather map.
What is a station model?
The type of farming that caused the Dust Bowl disaster.
What is industrial farming?
The most downloaded app in the United States since 2018.
What is Tik Tok?