LIFE SCIENCE
The gradual change in species over time is
a. Evolution
b. Adaption
c. Nucleotide
d. Natural Selection
What is Evolution ?
Light can be split into colors of the spectrum using a prism. This is called .......
a) Deflection
b) Dispersion
c) Reflection
d) Refraction
What is dispersion?
The quotient of 14,065 and 97
What is 145?
What does an anemometer measure?
a. Wind speed and direction
b. Air pressure
c. Humidity
How wind speed and direction are measured?
If micro means small, what does microbiology mean
a. small chemicals
b. the study of small life forms
c. small animals
d. the study of small animals
What is the study of small life forms ?
This deals primarily with gravity.
a) Mass
b) Weight
c) Volume
d) Atmosphere
What is weight?
Four friends rent a car that costs $150, including tax. Splitting the cost equally, how much does each person need to contribute?
What is 37.50?
The tail of a comet usually faces
Toward the sun
Toward the earth
Away from the sun
Away from earth
Does comets tail always face away from the Sun?
Genetic differences between organisms of the same species
a. variation
b. adaptation
c. behavior
d. environment
What is Variation ?
This person studies how land forms and how land masses have changed over time. They also study how people adapted to the land and used the land.
a) Underwater archeologist
b) Environmental archeologist
c) Zoo archeologist
d) Geo-archeologist
Who is Geo-archeologist?
Veronica stacked toy blocks to form the shape shown below. Veronica’s Stack of Toy Blocks 3 toy blocks 4 toy blocks 4 toy blocks How many toy blocks are in Veronica’s stack of toy blocks?
What is 48?
A mountain range is MOST LIKELY formed due to:
a. erosion of the land around a mountain
b. deposition from a nearby river that results in soil accumulated over time
c. they have always existed, but due to their density, they are never changed
d. tectonic plates shifting during an earthquake
What happens when tectonic plates shifted during an earthquake?
Two of the same genes for a trait(sometimes called purebred) BB or bb
a. homozygous
b. protein
c. heterozygous
d. chromosome
What is homozygous ?
What is force measured in ?
a)Joules
b) Kilograms
c) Newtons
d) Pascals
What is Newtons?
A box is 9 inches by 11 inches by 8 inches. What is the volume of the box?
What is 792 cubic inches?
Warm air rises causing this type of pressure.. Can bring rain and storms
Low
Even
High
Updraft
What causes low type of pressure?
What are variations of a gene called ?
a. chromosomes
b. DNA
c. alleles
d. RNA
What are alleles ?
If you're counting from the center out, what do you call Earth's fourth layer?
a) Crust
b) Mantle
c) Outer Core
d) Inner Core
What is Crust?
A picture measures 4 and 2/3 feet by 6 and 1/4 feet. What is the area of the picture?
what is 29 and ⅙ squared?
Virga is best defined as:
a) meteorologists’ nickname for the Virgin Mary.
b) a hot, dry, dusty easterly wind that occurs in West Africa
c) a concentration of fine particles near the surface of the Earth
d) rain falling from a cloud that evaporates before it hits the ground
e) an accumulation of white or milky granular ice
What is rain falling from a cloud that evaporates before it hits the ground is called?