Heredity
This type of trait is only expressed if an organism has two identical recessive alleles.
What is a recessive trait?
This is the name of the supercontinent that existed approximately 300 million years ago.
what is Pangaea?
He is credited with over 1,000 patents, including the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
The first element on the periodic table.
What is Hydrogen?
This resistive force opposes the motion or attempted motion of an object past another with which it is in contact.
What is friction?
This type of diagram is used to determine the possible combinations of genes in offspring.
What is a Punnett Square?
This type of plate boundary occurs where two plates slide past each other horizontally.
What is a Transform Boundary?
This 18th-century American scientist invented the lightning rod, bifocal glasses, and the Franklin stove.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The three primary states of matter.
What are Solid, Liquid, and Gas?
This term describes an object's resistance to a change in its motion.
What is inertia?
In a cross between two heterozygous (Aa) pea plants, this percentage of their offspring would also be heterozygous.
What is 50%?
The process where a denser oceanic plate is forced under a continental plate.
What is subduction?
This Serbian-American inventor designed the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
The process in which a liquid changes into a gas.
What is evaporation?
This "law" states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law?
Humans have 23 pairs of these structures, which carry thousands of genes.
What are chromosomes?
These are the two main types of crust that make up tectonic plates.
What are Oceanic and Continental crust?
Known for his astronomical observations, this Italian polymath was tried by the Inquisition for advocating heliocentrism.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
Unlike most substances, water does this as it freezes.
What is expands?
Stored energy, such as that in a lifted hammer, is known as this type of energy.
What is potential energy?
If a man with type AB blood and a woman with type O blood have children, this is the percentage chance of a child having type O blood.
What is 0%?
This is the plastic-like, flowing layer in the upper mantle that allows tectonic plates to move.
What is the Asthenosphere?
Daily Double!
Born in Germany, he is most recognized for his theory of relativity and the equation E =mc squared
Who is Albert Einstein?
This is the only letter not appearing on the periodic table.
What is J?
Acceleration is the rate of change of this, which is speed in a specific direction.
What is velocity?