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These are the large slabs of rock that the Earth's crust is broken up into.
What are tectonic plates?
100
These disease causing microbes are not made of cells.
What are viruses?
100
This is the smallest possible particle of matter.
What is an atom?
100
This property allows water to stick to things other than itself.
What is adhesion?
100
This is the scientist who developed the theory of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
200
This is the scientist who developed the theory of continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
200
If you are sick with strep throat and go to the doctor, you might get a prescription for this.
What is an antibiotic (or Penicillin)?
200
This is a mixture where one substance is dissolved in another substance.
What is a solution?
200
This is an underground source of water that is under intense pressure.
What is an artesian well?
200
The is the variable in an experiment that the scientist has control over.
What is the independent variable?
300
This is the rising and falling of molten rock within the mantle that causes the tectonic plates to move.
What are convection currents?
300

This is the whip like tail that pathogens use for locomotion.

What is a flagellum?

300

The family name for the elements that make up the "Staircase" on the periodic table.

What is metalloids?

300
This is the process by which nutrients build up in a lake or pond.
What is eutrophication?
300
This is the instrument that aided in the discovery of cells.
What is the microscope?
400
This is the type of boundary where tectonic plates move away from each other.
What is a divergent boundary?
400
This is a shot that you might get to prevent the chicken pox.
What is a vaccine?
400
These are the names of a row and a column on the Periodic Table. PLEASE WRITE IN ORDER.
What are periods and groups?
400
A leaking pipe is an example of...
What is point source pollution?
400
These are the three subparticles in an atom.
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?
500
This is the name of the original supercontinent AND what theory states that the continents have moved apart?
What are Pangaea and continental drift?
500
This is the structure that allows plant cells to use photosynthesis.
What is a chloroplast?
500

This states that atoms prefer to have eight electrons in their valence shell, which is the most stable electron configuration.

What is the octet rule?

500
This water quality indicator refers to how muddy the water is.
What is turbidity?
500

In the energy pyramid, this is the amount of the base (starting) energy level the Apex predators receives.

What is 0.01%?