Newton's Laws
Mitosis or Meiosis?
Plate Tectonics
Rocks and Fossils
Science Vocab
100

According to Newton's Second Law, force depends on what two properties

Mass and Acceleration

100

Involved in sexual reproduction

Meiosis

100

The type of boundary where two plates move toward each other

Convergent

100

The principle that in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rocks are on the bottom

Superposition

100

The separation of different constituents of planetary materials based on density resulting in the formation of distinct compositional layers

Planetary Differentiation

200

The type of force that opposes the relative motion of objects sliding against each other

Friction

200

Produces 2 identical daughter cells with the same amount of DNA as the parent cell

Mitosis

200

The type of boundary where two plates move away from each other

Divergent

200

The type of fossils that are the most useful in determining the relative ages of rock layers

Index Fossils

200

When the offspring’s phenotype is a combination of the parents’ phenotypes because neither allele in that pair is completely dominant

Incomplete dominance

300

The tendency of an object to resist being moved or, if the object is moving, to resist a change in speed or direction until an outside force acts on the object

Newton's First Law or Inertia

300

Involved in asexual reproduction

Mitosis

300

The type of boundary where plates slide horizontally past each other

Transform

300

True or False: Faults are younger than the youngest rock layer they cut through

True

300

A large plume of hot mantle material rising from deep within the Earth which can form volcanoes far from plate boundaries

Hot Spot

400

As the mass of the object increases, the acceleration ___________

Decreases

400

Produces 4 unique daughter cells with half the DNA as the parent cell

Meiosis

400

A type of convergent plate boundary where one plate slides under another

Subduction

400

Name two criteria that make index fossils useful in determining the ages of rocks

Distinct - easily recognizable

Abundant - many of these fossils exist

Widespread - found in many locations across Earth

Short geologic range - existed for brief period in time


400

When the two alleles of a gene are different, its genotype is ________

Heterozygous

500

Whenever one object exerts a force on a second object, the second object exerts an _________ and _________ force on the first.

equal; opposite

500

Undergoes DNA replication before cell division

BOTH!

500

Identify 1 feature that forms at each of the 3 types of tectonic plate boundaries

Convergent: mountains, ocean trenches
Divergent: mid-ocean ridges, rift valleys, volcanoes
Transform: faults, shallow earthquake

500

Write the order of layers from oldest to youngest

C, B, A, D, E

500

The material left behind by a moving glacier that is generally made up of rocks and soil forming a ridge

Moraine