True or False-- An individual organism can adapt to better survive in their environment
False
100
What are the 3 plate boundaries and how do they move?
What is convergent--together, divergent--apart, transform--slide by.
100
Read the contour map on the board. What is the approximate height of the taller peak?**
What is 52 m, 53m
100
What were the earliest lifeforms like compared to modern life forms?
What is earliest were simple, modern more complex
100
List 3 genetic traits that can be passed on from parent to offspring.
What is EX: hair color, eye color, etc
200
Give a benefit of having a biologically diverse environment/habitat?
What is stable, healthy(disease does not spread as rapidly)
200
What type of boundary produces mountains?
What is convergent.
200
Give an example of chemical weathering?
What is oxidation, acid rain
200
What do geologists use to mark the various geologic ages.
What is abrupt changes in the fossil record
200
When mapping the ocean floor, name one of the technologies that were used?
What is echo-sounding, magnetometer measurements, seafloor thickness measurements.
300
What does Survival of the Fittest mean and give an example using Charles Darwin's Finches.
What is the best adapted organisms survive--they will be able to reproduce and share their genes with their offspring. Beaks adapted to specific food sources.
300
How were the Hawaiian Islands formed?**
What is hot spot
300
What type of climate has the fastest weathering and why?
(cold/warm, wet/dry)
What is freezing and thawing--weathering.
300
Place the layers given on the board from oldest to youngest.
What is A, B E, C, D,
300
Give 2 pieces of evidence Alfred Wegener used to support his
theory that the Earth's continents were once connected
What is fossil evidence, matching coastlines, glacial deposits, continuous mountain ranges, type/age of rock
400
What allowed the peppered moth to survive in England during the Industrial Revolution.**23
What is the papered moths were darker in color which allowed them to blend in more efficiently--less eaten and could live to reproduce.
400
Explain what causes plate motion--be specific.
What is heat comes from the core, causing convection currents which move the plates
400
What are the layers of the earth, in order from outside to inside, and explain what happens to pressure, temperature and density the farther you go into the planet.
What is crust, mantle and core---All increase
400
How can you explain fish fossils in high altitudes?
What is the mountain was uplifted and had once been covered by the sea
400
What process is often caused by the growth of plant roots?
What is weathering
500
Hemophilia is a recessive condition (hh). If someone has just one allele for the hemophilia condition(Hh), then they are a carrier. If a person with hemophilia crosses with a person that is a carrier for hemophilia what is the likelihood that their children will have hemophilia? What would the offspring genotypes be?
What is 50/50
500
How do the plates move at a subduction zone and what 2 landforms are produced there?
What is denser crust is moving under less dense crust --Trenches and volcanoes
500
What process causes an alluvial fan and what would you call an alluvial fan at the mouth of a river?
What is deposition and a delta
500
Explain uniformitarianism.
What is the same processes that are at work today (deposition, erosion weathering) have always been at work.
500
How do scienctists know that the Earth's magnetic field has changed over time?
What is sea floor spreading stripes--Paleomagnetic stripes