Heredity
this type of individual is able to pass a version of a trait that they don't have, to an offspring.
What is a carrier?
Underwater landslides and earthquakes can cause this disastrous event, which destroyed a nuclear power plant on the coast of Japan just a few years ago.
This scientist found the mid-ocean ridge while working as a sonar officer on a WWII destroyer, and used it to support his claim of "sea floor spreading".
Who is Harry Hess?
WHat is glucose or sugar?
A push or a pull is known as this type of scientific measurement:
What is a force?
In a punnett square, these go on the top and sides of the square.
What are gammetes?
WHich direction would plates be moving at a divergent boundary?
What is moving away from one another, or splitting apart?
This famous scientist discovered the rules of heredity while growing peas at his monastery.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
THis type of mixture is formed when a solute dissolves in a solvent, thus forming a mixture where all the substances are equally spread out.
What is a solution?
Which type of energy can be conducted through objects, transferred by floating liquids or gases, or by travelling in waves through space?
What is heat?
If a Homozygous dominant individual mates with a homozygous recessive individual, all the offspring will be this genotype:
Daily double:
The tallest mountain on earth, seen here, is found at a convergent boundary of two continental plates. What is this mountain?
What is Mt. Everest?
This 2-time Nobel Laureate discovered Radium, a radioactive element, while she and her husband Pierre were extracting Uranium from rock at Cambridge University in England.
Who is Madame Curie?
The number of atoms of elements, and the types of elements, must always be THIS on either side of a chemical equation, demonstrating that matter can neither be gained or lost in a reaction.
What is EQUAL?
When measuring the amount of energy in a moving object, what two things are needed to be measured?
What are mass and velocity?
If a heterozygous individual mates with a homozygous recessive individual, the offspring will have this probability of getting the recessive trait:
What is 50%?
What is a transform boundary?
This scientist developed a handy 4-square tool for predicting probability of genotypes of children when the parents' genotypes are known.
Who is Reginald Punnett?
WHat is the missing product of this reaction?
NaCl + AgF ---> NaF + __________
What is AgCl?
WHat is gravitational potential energy?
A person is born with a dominant trait such as having a sixth finger, but NONE of his parents/ancestors have a sixth finger. What is the only explanation of how the person got the sixth finger trait?
What is a mutation?
What is a subduction volcano?
This naturalist who was on board the HMS Beagle, discovered flightless cormorants on the Galapagos islands and studies the various species of finches there, then inventing the concept of evolution by "natural selection".
Who is Charles Darwin?
The number of protons of an element is equal to the number of ________ in an atom.
What is an electron?
This type of energy is a type of potential energy that is found in flexed metal, compressed springs, stretched rubber.....
What is elastic potential energy?