Plate Tectonics
What is Pangea?
This type of rock forms from magma cooling.
What is igneous rock?
In a food chain, what does the arrow represent?
How long is Earth's Period of Revolution?
365 days
All living things in a ecosystem are called?
What is a biotic factor?
This is the type of plate boundary where two plates slide past each other.
Acid rain causes rock to melt and degrade away. Is this an example of chemical or physical weathering?
What is chemical weathering?
Where do producers get their energy?
The sun
Which planet has the most complex ring system?
What is Saturn?
What is the name of the fifth planet from the Sun?
What is Jupiter?
This is the place where a volcano forms that is not associated with a plate boundary.
What is a hot spot?
The Early Paleozoic era is also known as the "Age of _____________."
What is the Age of Invertebrates?
Does the organism at the bottom of the food chain have less or more energy than the organism at the top of the food chain?
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What is the first stage of star formation?
What is a nebula?
What is the unit called that measures the distance beyond the solar system.
What us a light year?
Which is the largest tectonic plate?
What is the pacific plate?
What is the name of the structure that allowed Marsupials to travel from South America to Austrailia?
What is a land bridge?
A tapeworn attaches to the stomach of a pig and eats all of the pigs food, leaving it hungry. What type of symbiotic relationship is this?
What is Parasitism?
What type of galaxy is the Milky Way?
What is a spiral galaxy?
This is the type of cell division that results in two genetically identical cells.
What is mitosis?
At what type of plate boundary are shallow earthquakes most commonly occurring?
What are divergent plate boundarys?
This property of a mineral describes when a mineral breaks and produces a rough or irregular surface.
What is fracture?
What is the name of the symbiotic relationship when one organism benefits and the other organism isn't harmed or helped?
What is commensalism?
Matter that emits no light at any wavelength is called?
What is dark matter?
What is the name of the fluid filled sac found inside a plant cell?