Advanced Matter & Chemical Reactions
A reaction that releases heat into the surroundings.
What is exothermic?
The force that keeps planets in orbit around the Sun.
What is gravity?
A chart used to predict possible genetic outcomes.
What is a Punnett square?
The theory that explains the movement of Earth's plates.
What is plate tectonics?
A limitation that restricts a design, such as cost or materials.
What is a contstraint?
The number of atoms of each element must be the same on both sides of this.
What is a balanced chemical equation?
The bending of a wave as it changes speed entering a new medium.
What is refraction?
A trait that helpsan organism survive in it's environment.
What is an adaptation?
The time it takes Earth to rotate once it's axis.
A graph that shows how one variable changes in response to another.
What is a line graph?
A substance that speeds up a reaction without being used up.
What is a catalyst?
The amount of force applied over an area.
What is pressure?
A change in DNA that may result in a new trait.
What is a mutation?
The preserved remains or traces of ancient organisms
Repeating an expeiment increases this aspect of the results.
What is reliability?
The ability of a substance to dissolve in another substance.
What is solubility?
A wave that requires a medium to travel, like sound.
What is a mechanical wave?
The process by which organisms with favorable traits survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection?
The galaxy that contains our solar system.
What is the Milky Way?
A redesign based on test results is an example of this step.
What is optimization?
A mixture where different parts can be seen, like a salad.
The number of waves that pass a point in one second.
What is frequency?
When neither allele is dominant and the phenotype is blended?
What is incomplete dominance?
The point directly above an earthquake's focus
What is the epicenter?
A conclusion must be supported by this type of evidence
What is scientific evidence?