Earth Science 1
At this type of boundary, two plates come together.
What is a convergent boundary?
This type of rock is formed by heat and pressure buried deep below Earth's surface.
What is metamorphic rock?
Weather is a(n) ____________ factor.
What is abiotic?
In an energy pyramid, the amount of energy is the highest at the lowermost, or _________________, level.
What is producer?
These are the three main parts of the brain.
What are cerebrum, cerebellum, and brain stem?
Foot prints, feces, burrows, tracks, and borings are examples of _______________ fossils.
What are trace fossils?
In the process of forming igneous rocks, melted rocks turn _____________ by cooling and hardening.
What is solid or crystallization?
This biome/ecosystem hosts 50% of all species on Earth.
What is the rainforest?
_______________ is the variety of life across all levels of ecological organization.
What is biodiversity?
Chewing is an example of _______________ digestion.
What is mechanical?
Picturing the rock cycle diagram, these two processes are what igneous, metamorphic, or older sedimentary rocks undergo to turn into SEDIMENTS before new sedimentary rock.
What are weathering and erosion?
This type of fossilization occurs when a sticky substance from a plant captures and preserves an organism.
What is resin or amber resin?
The populations of different species in a specific area at a given time is a(n) _________________.
What is a community?
This is being used up as it moves up the food chain or food web.
What is energy?
In a neuron, the skinny branches known as ________________ bring electrical signals TOWARD the soma
What are dendrites?
This type of fossilization involves the organism dying with no subsequent filling of the cavity.
What is a mold?
At a mid-ocean ridge, hot magma rises and cools to push away old rock and harden to create new rock. This process is known as ________________________.
What is seafloor spreading?
A frog eating a dragonfly is this type of relationship.
What is consumer-consumer or predator-prey?
______________________ for food, etc. may happen between biotic factors when biotic or abiotic resources in an ecosystem can become scarce (are limiting factors).
What is competition?
This organ absorbs excess water and nutrients not absorbed into the bloodstream and converts it into waste to be released.
What is the large intestine?
A strike-slip fault occurs at this type of plate boundary.
What is a transform boundary?
When a continental crust and an oceanic crust collide at a convergent plate boundary, this geological event occurs. This type of event formed the Cascade Mountains in the Pacific Northwest. It also occurs at along the west coast of South America.
What is a volcano?
The largest number of individuals in the same species that an area can support is its ___________________________.
What is carrying capacity?
A population of beetles consists of some that are brown and some that are green. This is an example of _____________ diversity.
What is genetic diversity?
The brain and spinal cord make up this subsection of the nervous system.
What is the central nervous system (CNS)?