Earth Science
What was the last super continent called?
Pangaea
What is the chemical formula for water?
H2O
What type of organism eats primarily producers, like plants?
Herbivore
What is the energy of motion?
Kinetic energy.
Most science look for the presence of this substance when trying to find life on other planets.
Water.
What do you call the pieces of the Earth's crust (and upper mantle) that move from forces from inside the mantle?
Tectonic plates
Which element is the backbone of the chemistry of life?
Carbon
What type of adaptation allows an organism to blend in with it's environment?
What is scientific name for stored energy?
Potential energy.
What causes the tides on Earth?
The moon.
What causes the tectonic plates to move?
Convection currents in the mantle.
Besides Celsius and Fahrenheit, what is the third temperature scale?
Kelvin.
What drives the evolution of a species?
Natural selection.
What do you call the force required to move an object a distance?
What about the Earth causes it's seasons?
Tilt of its axis.
Which type of plate boundary causes megathrust earthquakes and tsunamis?
Convergent boundaries.
Most of the standards in chemistry are set by this molecule.
Water.
What do you call the maximum population a given area can support?
Which of Newton's Laws states: "For every action, there is an equal or opposite
Newton's Third Law.
What is Earth's initial defense against harmful rays from the sun?
Earth's magnetic field.
What is oceanic crust primarily made of?
Basalt.
What do you call the amount of heat required to move 1 g of a substance 1 degree Celsius?
Specific heat.
What processes allows bacteria and fungi to return raw nutrients back to the ecosystem?
Decomposition.
What type of heat transfer can travel across the vacuum of space?
Radiation.
Which element makes up a majority of matter in the universe?
Hydrogen.