The basic unit of structure and function in all living things
What is a cell?
100
A whip-like tail used for movement
What is a flagellum?
100
Water evaporates and falls back to Earth as rain or snow. What is the primary energy source that drives this cycle?
What is the sun?
100
The Age of Reptiles
What is Mesozoic?
100
The universal solvent
What is water?
200
Plants, animals, fungi, and protists all have their genetic information contained in a nucleus. What are they referred to as?
What is eukaryote?
200
The protist that moves using pseudopods
What is the amoeba?
200
97 % of all the water on earth
What is salt water?
200
Change over time
What is evolution?
200
What type of change is oxidation an example of?
What is chemical change?
300
The cellular structures where respiration takes place
What is mitochondria?
300
Ticks can transmit Lyme disease. In this example, the tick is acting as what?
What is a biological vector?
300
Where most of Earth's freshwater is stored
What is ice - glaciers, icebergs, polar ice caps, permafrost?
300
The event that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs
What is an asteroid impact?
300
The Group on the Periodic Table that produces a salt as a product during chemical reactions
What is the Halogens (group 17)?
400
How photosynthesis and respiration are related
What is they are opposite processes?
400
The type of medicine used to treat bacterial diseases and infections
What is an antibiotic?
400
When it rains, pesticides from a field are washed into a nearby stream. What is this an example of?
What is runoff (agricultural runoff)?
400
The era of the Geologic Time Scale that makes up 88 % of Earth's history
What is Precambrian Time?
400
The property that allows metals to heat up quickly, and water to heat up slowly
What is specific heat?
500
The three parts of Cell Theory
What is:
1. All living things are made of cells
2. Cells are the basic unit of structure and function in all
living things.
3. Cells come from other cells.
500
The type of graph that represents bacterial growth
What is a J-curve?
500
The type of technology a scientist would use to determine the depth of the ocean floor.
What is SONAR?
500
A scientist discovered that the fossils found in rocks along the edge of South America are the same as fossils found in Africa. What explains this?
What is they were once connected in Pangaea?
500
Alkali metals explode when mixed with water. Which type of property does this demonstrate?