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Geology-100
• ANSWER: The theory that states that the continents have moved apart horizontally to their current positions.
• QUESTION: What is the continental drift?
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Geology-200
• ANSWER: The theory that states that Earth’s crust and upper mantle are broken into sections.
• QUESTION: What is Plate Tectonics?
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Geology-300
• ANSWER: The theory that suggested that hot, less-dense material in the mantle is forced upward to the surface at a mid-ocean ridge then turns and flows sideways carrying the seafloor away in both directions.
• QUESTION: What is Seafloor Spreading?
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Geology-400
• ANSWER: This is a process done by measuring the amounts of parent and daughter material in a rock.
• QUESTION: What is radiometric dating?
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Geology-500
• ANSWER: Fossil Clues, Climate Clues, and Rock clues are all types of evidence that scientists collected for this theory.
• QUESTION: What is the Continental Drift Theory?
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• ANSWER: The process in which the nucleus divides to form two identical nuclei with the same number and type of chromosomes as the original.
• QUESTION: What is Mitosis?
Heredity-100
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Heredity-200
• ANSWER: A process of nuclear division that produces sex cells of 23 chromosomes.
• QUESTION: What is Meiosis?
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Heredity-300
• ANSWER: This stores the blueprints for making proteins which determines how traits appear in you.
• QUESTION: What is DNA?
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Heredity-400
• ANSWER: This is any permanent change in a gene or chromosome of a cell.
• QUESTION: What is a mutation?
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Heredity-500
• ANSWER: Protein assembly begins with this as it moves out of the nucleus and attaches to ribosomes in the cytoplasm and the other type of this acid temporarily matches the code.
• QUESTION: What is mRNA and tRNA?
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Chemistry-100
• ANSWER: This number is used to tell how many protons are in the nucleus of an atom.
• QUESTION: What is the atomic number?
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Chemistry-200
• ANSWER: This is an atomic particle that may either be shared or given away.
• QUESTION: What is a valent electron?
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Chemistry-300
• ANSWER: This tells chemists what elements make up a compound.
• QUESTION: What is a chemical formula?
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Chemistry-400
• ANSWER: This is an equation that shows what materials a chemical reaction begin with (reactants) and ends with (products).
• QUESTION: What is a chemical equation?
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Chemistry-500
• ANSWER: A covalent bond in which electrons are shared unequally.
• QUESTION: What is a polar bond?
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Ecology-100
• ANSWER: These are the surrounding factors in an environment that all organisms depend on.
• QUESTION: What are abiotic and biotic factors?
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Ecology-200
• ANSWER: Groups of populations that interact with each other in a given area for this.
• QUESTION: What is a community?
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Ecology-300
• ANSWER: This system is made up of a biotic community and the abiotic factors that affect it.
• QUESTION: What is an ecosystem?
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Ecology-400
• ANSWER: This method is used by ecologists to check on an endangered species population in Asia.
• QUESTION: What is the mark and recapture method?
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Ecology-500
• ANSWER: Organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere contain the biotic and abiotic factors that determine this.
• QUESTION: What are the Levels of Biological Organization?
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Evolution-100
• ANSWER: This is any remain of life from an earlier time.
• QUESTION: What is a fossil?
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Evolution-200
• ANSWER: Organisms with traits that are best suited to their environments are more likely to survive is due to this theory.
• QUESTION: What is the theory of evolution by Natural Selection?
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Evolution-300
• ANSWER: This is the appearance of an inherited trait that makes an individual different from other members of the same species.
• QUESTION: What is a variation?
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Evolution-400
• ANSWER: This is a rock type formed by mud, sand, or other fine particles that settle out of a liquid.
• QUESTION: What is sedimentary rock?
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Evolution-500
• ANSWER: Body parts that are similar in origin and structure that give evidence that two or more species share common ancestors.
• QUESTION: What are homologous structures?