Heredity
When one trait is represented by two of the same alleles.
What is homozygous?
This type of boundary is when two plates slide past each other.
What is a transform boundary?
This was the first scientist to propose the idea of gravity.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
This is the lightest and most abundant element in the universe.
What is hydrogen?
This force pulls objects toward the center of the Earth.
What is gravity?
This is the specific physical expression or observable trait of an organism's genetic makeup.
What is pehonotype?
The process of when one tectonics plate drifts under another.
What is subduction?
This man is most known for introducing the theory of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
What element is required for all of life?
What is carbon?
This is the term for energy that an object possesses due to its motion.
What is kinetic energy?
This term describes a trait that can only appear if there are two copies of that gene.
What is recessive?
This liquid layer of the Earth lies directly beneath the crust and drives plate movement via convection.
What is the mantle (or asthenosphere)?
Daily Double!
She was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes and discovered the elements Polonium and Radium.
Who is Marie Curie?
On the pH scale, a substance with a value of 7 is considered this.
What is neutral?
Sound travels fastest through this state of matter.
What is a solid?
The human species normally has this number of chromosome pairs in each cell.
What is 23?
The large "supercontinent" that existed on earth around 300 million years ago before breaking apart.
What is Pangea?
This was the scientist who originally proposed the idea of continental drift that developed into plate tectonics.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
These are the three main subatomic particles found in an atom.
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?
This law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law?
This molecule carries the genetic instructions for every living thing.
What is DNA?
This region is where most of the world's volcanic eruptions and earthquakes take place.
What is "the Ring of Fire?"
This man is known as "the Father of Genetics" for studying pea plants to find how traits are passed down.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
This type of chemical bond involves the sharing of electron pairs between atoms.
What is a covalent bond?
This equation represents the theory of relativity.
What is E=mc2?