Evolution & Natural Selection
Fossil Record
Earth and Space Science
Human Impact
Miscellaneous
100
The process in which a species has changed over time is known as this.
What is evolution?
100
The age of rocks and geologic features compared with other rocks and features is called?
What is relative age?
100
How many phases of the moon are there?
What is 8?
100
All the members of a species living in a given area.
What is population
100
A lunar eclipse occurs during this lunar phase.
What is a full moon?
200
True or False: Similar structures that evolved from a common ancestor such as bones from humans, cats, bats, and whales are called vestigial structures
What is false?
200
The Earth is believed to be how old?
What is 4.6 billion years?
200
When the right side of the moon is illuminated, this phase is called
What is waxing phase?
200
As human population grows on Earth, what happens to resource consumption?
It increases
200
This model is used to show the gradual change and relationships between organisms.
What is a cladogram?
300
True or False: Evolutionary changes occur rapidly over time
What is false?
300
Preserved remains of ancient organisms
What are fossils
300
When more than 51% of the left side of the moon is illuminated, this phase is called?
What is a waning gibbous?
300
This is the largest number of individuals of a given species that Earth's resources can support and maintain for a long period of time.
What is carrying capacity
300
Morse code is an example of this kind of signal.
What is a digital signal
400
The study of similarities and differences among structures of living species and fossil species
What is comparative anatomy?
400
This principle states that "if one geologic feature cuts across another feature, the feature that it cuts across is older."
What is cross-cutting relationships?
400
When the Moon is eclipsing the Sun casting a shadow on Earth, this type of eclipse is called
What is a solar eclipse?
400
List two reasons for deforestation.
What is urbanization and agriculture
400
Snakes with small legs and your tail bone are examples of these
What are vestigial organs?
500
Which term refers to the process by which individuals that are better suited to the environment survive and reproduce therefore passing down their genes to their offspring?
What is Natural Selection?
500
This principle states that "the oldest, undisturbed rock layers are found at the bottom, while the youngest are found at the top."
What is the principle of superposition?
500
This type of eclipse occurs within the umbral shadow of the Earth
What is a total lunar eclipse?
500
This is a direct result of growing populations and is often seen in developed countries like the United States.
Overconsumption
500
This hypothesis posits that the mass extinction of dinosaurs approximately 66 million years ago was caused by the impact of a large asteroid.
The Alvarez Hypothesis
600
Slight differences in inherited traits among individual members of a species is called?
What is variation?
600
This principle states that the geologic processes that occur today are similar to those that have occured in the past.
What is Uniformitarianism?
600
The main reason why we experience ours seasons is because of
What is the earth's tilt?
600
How can deforestation contribute to climate change?
Less trees to absorb carbon dioxide can lead to increases of greenhouse gases
600
A total solar eclipse occurs can only be seen within this.
The Moon's umbra
700
When the anatomy of species have similar strucutre, but different function and share a common ancestor
What is Homologous structure?
700
Name the five principles of relative age dating
What are superposition, inclusions, cross-cutting relationships, lateral continuity, and original horizontality?
700
The orbital motion of the objects in the solar system are the direct result of what features of the Sun?
What is its gravitational pull?
700
Based on the graph above, in which country would you expect there to be the highest increase in the population? Explain why.
A because they have the lowest number of older people and the highest number of younger people.
700
This theory states that changes in the Earth's crust during geological history have resulted from the action of continuous and uniform processes.
What is uniformitarianism