Energy resource
How can solar energy be collected?
Solar panels
What is an example of a fossil
mold, trace, cast, preserved, petrified
What was the landform called that existed before the continents drifted?
Pangea
What is the "cohesive attraction that exists between water molecules"?
Surface tension
What is the largest and most lighted zone of the ocean.?
Open ocean
Which energy is the most dangerous?
Nuclear
What would the fossil record be like if there was a mass extinction?
A sudden absence of fossils in the rocks
What type of rock is made from lava?
Igneous
What is adhesion?
Attraction between two different molecules
What is the deepest and darkest part of the ocean?
Deep ocean
What are the fossils fuels?
Oil and coal, made from ancient non-living organisms
Describe natural selection.
the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
What is the list of all of the Earth's history?
Geological time scale
What is a pool of underground water found in the permeable soil?
Aquifer
What are cracks at the bottom of the ocean floor that emit cold gases?
Cold seeps
What affects the cost of these energy resources?
A increase of people buying them, scientists making them better
Compare and contrast mold and cast fossils.
A cast is a 3-D example of an object of the past created when a mold fills up with sediment like mud, sand or volcanic ash.
What is the longest time period on the geological time scale?
Precambrian
What is the amount of energy it takes to raise the temperature of something by one degree?
Specific heat
What is it called where saltwater and freshwater meet?
Estuary
Name all the energy sources that are renewable?
Biofuel, geothermal, solar, hydropower, Nuclear
If a sudden change were to occur in an ecosystem that favors “green”, what might happen to a previously endangered species that was already “green”?
The “green” organisms would prosper.
In what time period was Pangaea formed?
Paleozoic
Water Properties/Qualities
What is the amount of mass in a certain space?
Density
What is the process of making food at the bottom of the ocean without sunlights?
Chemosynthesis