Chemistry
What are the fundamental substances that make up all chemical compounds? (Hint: about 90 occur naturally)
The elements
Organisms that lack this part of the cell are called prokaryotes.
The nucleus.
Speed is best calculated by what formula?
What is distance / time
A tool used to predict the probability of a genetic cross.
Punnett square
The layer of gas that surrounds the planet is called...
What is the atmosphere?
The name for this fundamental particle of matter means "not cuttable".
Atom
What separates the inside of a cell from the outside.
Cell membrane.
These two components are used to find the amount of work done to an object.
What are Force and Distance
A term used to describe a great deal of variety in an environment.
What is diversity?
The process by which water evaporates, condenses, and precipitates back to Earth's surface.
What is the water cycle?
The most abundant element in the universe.
Hydrogen
Process by which cells copy their genetic material and make a new nucleus in preparation for cell division.
Mitosis
This term is used to represent energy of motion.
What is kinetic energy?
This scientist studied pea plants and is known as the "father of genetics"
Who is Gregor Mendel?
The Earth is made up of large chunks of rock, floating on the mantle. These chunks of rock are called...
What are tectonic plates?
Because of this principle, the mass of materials cannot be created nor destroyed.
Conservation of Matter
The genetic "blueprint" of a living thing.
DNA
This is the most important difference between speed and velocity.
What is direction
Each parent gives off this percent of their genetic material.
What is 50%
A star and all the planets, moons, asteroids, comets. and other smaller bodies that orbit it.
A solar system
What do we call any material in the universe that takes up space?
Matter
Reproduction that can be done with only a single organism, where the parent is a genetic copy of the offspring.
What is asexual reproduction?
This is the rate at which speed increases or decreases.
What is acceleration?
When both alleles of a gene are expressed in a phenotype.
Codominance.
There are this many planets in the solar system.
What is 8?