Advanced Life Science
This organelle controls the cell’s activities and contains DNA
What is the nucleus?
This is the smallest unit of an element.
This layer of Earth is made of molten rock and lies beneath the crust.
What is the mantle?
This is the force that slows objects down when they rub together
What is friction
This is the result of multiplying two numbers
What is a product?
This process allows plants to convert sunlight into energy
What is photosynthesis?
This part of an atom has a positive charge.
What is a proton?
This force pulls objects toward Earth's center
What is gravity?
This simple machine is a flat surface set at an angle
What is an inclined plane?
This coordinate is written first in an ordered pair (x, y)
What is the x-coordinate?
These vessels carry blood away from the heart
What are arteries?
This change occurs when a substance forms a new substance.
What is chemical change?
This planet is known for its rings.
What is Saturn?
This measures how fast something moves in a certain direction
What is velocity?
This branch of math deals with shapes, lines and angles.
What is geometry?
These are traits that are passed from parents to offspring
What are inherited traits?
What is the measure of how much matter is in an object?
What is mass?
What is the point in Earth’s orbit where it is closest to the Sun called?
What is Perihelion?
This type of energy is energy in motion
What is kinetic energy?
This type of graph uses bars to compare data.
What is a bar graph?
What process allows water to move across a cell membrane from an area of high concentration to low concentration?
What is osmosis?
What type of bond forms when electrons are shared between atoms?
What is the covalent bond?
What is the boundary between two tectonic plates called?
Plate boundary
This law states that objects in motion stays in motion unless acted on by a force
What is Newton's first law?
What type of memory is temporary and is cleared when the computer is turned off?
What is RAM?