Weather and atmosphere
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are all forms of this.
What is precipitation?
Coal, oil, and natural gas are examples of this type of nonrenewable energy.
What are fossil fuels?
The passing of physical characteristics from parents to offspring is called what?
What is Heredity?
The body system that breaks down food into nutrients that the body can use.
What is the digestive system?
I act like the brain of the cell and hold the DNA
What is the nucleus?
What is the first layer of the atmosphere?
What is the Troposphere?
Natural resources that can be replaced by nature at the same rate (or faster than) they are consumed.
What is a renewable resource?
The scientific study of heredity is known as?
Genetics
The muscular tube where digestion begins.
What is the mouth?
I act like the powerhouse of the cell because I make energy!
What is the mitochondria?
This atmospheric layer contains the ozone layer and gets warmer as altitude increases.
What is the stratosphere?
Natural resources that exist in limited amounts and take millions of years to form.
What are nonrenewable resources?
Who is known as the "Father of Genetics" for his experiments with pea plants?
Gregor Mendel
The organ that mixes food with strong acids to break it down.
What is the stomach?
I am a jelly-like fluid that fills the cell and keeps everything in place.
What is the cytoplasm?
These fluffy, cotton-ball-like clouds usually indicate fair, sunny weather.
What is cumulus?
Solid waste that is buried in the ground and covered with soil and plastic liners to prevent pollution.
What is a landfill?
Specific characteristics that vary from one individual to another, such as eye color, are called?
Traits
The organ that pumps blood throughout your body.
What is the Heart?
I am a tiny structure that builds proteins for the cell.
What are ribosomes?
This tornado-prone region in the United States experiences conditions for twister formation.
What is Tornado Alley?
This phenomenon occurs when greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere trap radiated heat from the sun, keeping the planet warm.
What is the greenhouse effect?
Which type of allele always shows up when present, written with a capital letter?
Dominant
This is the network of vessels that returns leaked body fluids back into the bloodstream
What is the lymphatic system?
I act like the post office by packaging and shipping proteins.
What is the Golgi apparatus?