The spinning of a planet on its axis.
What is rotation?
This is what an embryo is called after 10 weeks of growth.
What is a fetus?
The trace remains for an organism that lived long ago.
What is a fossil?
A belief based on incorrectly applied scientific methods - it's not science, and the aliens didn't build the pyramids.
What is pseudoscience?
This is when humans select plants or animals for breeding based on desired traits.
What is artificial selection?
The motion of a body that travels around another body in space.
What is revolution?
This is the organ in which a fertilized egg develops into a baby.
What is the uterus?
The time needed for half a sample of a radioactive substance to undergo radioactive decay - also a video game.
Half-life
Information gathered by observation or experimentation.
What is data?
A trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
This is when sun shines equally on the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is an equinox?
You heart, blood, and blood vessels make up this system.
What is the cardiovascular system?
Determining the actual age in years of a rock.
What is absolute dating?
This describes the factor in an experiment that is deliberately manipulated.
All of the fossils that have been discovered over time.
What is the fossil record?
This is the spreading cone of lighter shadow around the darkest part of the shadow during an eclipse.
What is a penumbra?
The maintenance of a constant internal environment in the body.
The term for determining the relative age of sedimentary rock layers.
What is superposition?
This type of relationship can be shown with a straight line on a graph.
What is a linear relationship?
Fossils that help fill in the gaps in the fossil record.
What is a transitional fossil?
This type of tide has the smallest daily tidal range, and happens when the Sun, moon, and Earth form a 90 degree angle.
What is a neap tide?
This organ, attached to the small intestine, makes fluids that break down nutrients found in foods.
What is the pancreas?
The idea that geologic processes that happened in the past can be explained by current processes.
What is uniformitarianism?
This process is what gives completed experiments and publications validity.
What is peer-review?
Fossils that are formed by tree sap.
What are amber fossils?