Heredity
The passing of physical characteristics from parents to offspring.
What is heredity?
This type of boundary involves two plates moving apart, forming new crust
What is a Divergent Boundary?
Known for his theory of relativity, this dyslexic German-born physicist won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Who is Albert Einstein?
The dense, positively charged center of an atom containing protons and neutrons.
What is the nucleus?
Newton's first law states that an object at rest tends to stay at rest, while an object in motion stays in motion due to this property.
What is inertia?
The "father of genetics" who studied pea plants
Who is Gregor Mendel?
This type of boundary occurs when two plates collide or move toward each other.
What is a Convergent Boundary?
He formulated the law of inheritance through experiments on pea plants
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Negatively charged particles that orbit the nucleus
What are electrons?
Newton’s second law of motion is often summarized by this formula, representing force, mass, and acceleration
What is F=ma?
A genetic trait that is hidden or masked by another
What is a recessive trait?
Plates slide horizontally past each other at this type of boundary, often causing earthquakes.
What is a Transform Boundary?
A 19th-century French chemist and microbiologist whose work on germ theory and vaccinations saved countless lives.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
Atoms of the same element with the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons.
What are isotopes?
This third law of motion states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite one.
What is Newton's Third Law?
An organism's physical appearance or visible traits.
What is a phenotype?
This is the process where one tectonic plate sinks beneath another into the mantle.
What is Subduction?
This astronomer, often called the father of observational astronomy, used a telescope to confirm the phases of Venus.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
This number, equal to the number of protons, defines an element
What is the atomic number?
This term refers to the resistive force that opposes the motion or attempted motion of an object past another
What is friction?
An organism that has two identical alleles for a trait.
What is homozygous?
These are produced on the coast of continents when oceanic crust moves underneath continental crust.
What are Volcanoes/Volcanic Arcs?
His study of finches in the Galápagos Islands helped develop the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Particles that make up protons and neutrons, including types named Up and Down.
What are quarks?
It is the speed at which the acceleration of a falling object terminates because air resistance balances its weight.
What is terminal speed (or terminal velocity)