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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 substances are difficult to separate.

What is a homologous mixture?

200

This is an underground source of water.

What is an aquifer?

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 a localized spread of disease.

What is an epidemic?

300

This is a the part of the atom that determines reactivity and bonds with other atoms.

What are valence electrons?

300

This is the process by which nutrients are returned to the surface of the ocean.

What is upwelling?

300

This is the scale that indicates if water is an acid or a base.

What is the pH scale?

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 is an atom that has gained or lost a neutron but is the same element.

What is an isotope?

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

These are the three major macromolecules our cells use and what they break down into.

What are proteins to amino acids, carbohydrates to simple sugars, lipids to fatty acids?