Volcanoes & Earthquakes
Scientists who study the movement of the earth are called
What are Seismologists?
The carrying away of weathered rock sediment by wind, water, or moving ice
What is erosion?
A one-celled organism
What is unicellular?
Animals that lack a backbone or an internal bony skeleton are classified as this.
What are invertebrates?
The molecule carrying the chemical code that tells cells what to do.
What is DNA?
An area around the Pacific Ocean basin where most of the world's volcanoes and earthquakes occur is the:
What is the ring of fire?
Sediment dropped or laid down in a new, permanent location by wind or water
What is deposition?
Plant cells possess this rigid outermost layer that provides support and structure
What is a cell wall?
Plants that complete their entire reproductive life cycle within one single growing season.
What are annuals?
This is the study of how traits are inherited.
Molten rock that breaks through the Earth's surface crust during a volcanic eruption.
What is lava?
This forms at the mouth of a river where sediment is deposited as the water slows down into an ocean
This cell organelle houses DNA and acts as the direct instruction control center
What is the nucleus?
Maria has picked blueberries from the bush on her grandpa's farm for the past five years. Blueberries are an example of this type of plant.
This is the physical, visible appearance of an organism's traits.
This type of volcano is formed by layers of cinders
What is a cinder cone volcano?
Unweathered rock that influences the soil above it
What is bedrock?
A group of specialized cells that work together
What is tissue?
When plants are classified by how they transport water, scientists group them as this.
What are vascular and non-vascular plants?
This shows the genetic possibilities of a particular trait that can result for offspring of a specific pair of parents.
A mixture of hot gases, ash, and rock fragments that races down a volcano during an eruption
What is Pyroclastic flow?
Type of chemical weathering happens when iron combines with oxygen in the presence of water
What is oxidation or rust?
This is the correct order of biological classification from broadest to narrowest
What is Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?
Type of vascular tissue transports water and minerals upward from the roots of a plant.
What is xylem?
The dense, central core of an atom houses both the protons and the neutrons.
What is the nucleus?