It is the mixture of gases that surround the Earth.

- Atmosphere

It gives rise to oceans, mountaiins and ridges

- tectonic movements
Sedimentary rocks formed from "clasts"
- Clastic rocks
It forms a wave motion that is transmitted through the surface of the earth
- Earthquakes
Is a process that occurs at mid-ocean ridge, where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic
activity and then gradually moves away from the ridge.
- Seafloor spreading
The age of the Earth is currently thought to be
- about 4,500,000,000 years old
A change or the process of change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its
environment.
- Adaptation
Is the laying down of sediments carried by wind, water, or ice.
- Deposition
All the nonliving parts of an ecosystem are referred to as?
- abiotic factors
The process of making changes in the DNA code of living organisms is called?
- genetic engineering.
The physical location of an ecosystem in which a given species lives is called a?

- habitat

What does a Punnett square show?

- all the possible outcomes of a genetic cross

A storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean

- Hurricanes

Abiotic factors affect an ecosystem and include all of these except the?

- nitrogen-fixing bacteria

Natural selection results in change overtime by acting on traits that are?

- Heritable

A rising of the sea as a result of atmospheric pressure changes wnd wind associated with a
storm

- Storm surge
Adaptive evolution can be caused by?

- Natural selection

The different forms of a gene are called?

- Alleles

Hot molten or semifluid rock erupted from volcano or fissue, or solid rock resulting from cooling
off.

- Lava

A stack orginally planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, that are bent or curved during
permannet deformation.

- Fold

Sedimentary rocks formed from the evaporation of water.

- Chemical

A linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.

- Divergent Boundary

The process that transports rocks, soil, and sediments to a different location is called______.

- Erosion

A fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock

- Fault

An overflowing of a large amount of water beyond its normal confines, especailly over what is
normally dry land.

- Flood

An overflowing of a large amount of water beyond its normal confines, especailly over what is
normally dry land.

- Fossils

The theory of evolution by natural selection was independently developed by?

- Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace

A DNA molecule produced by combining DNA from different sources is known as?

- Recombinant DNA
A DNA molecule produced by combining DNA from different sources is known as?

- Transform boundary

A technique which can be used to seperate DNA fragments of differnt sizes is called?

- Gel electrophoresis
Volcanism is associated with which of the following types of plate boundaries?

- divergent and convergent plate boundaries

A fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, especially one whose cause or
explanation is i question.

- Phenomenon

It is a system composed of four major spheres that interact with one another to help sustain life.

- Earth

All the individuals of a species that live in a particular area are called a?

- Population

Is the process by which soil and rock particles are worn away and moved elsewhere by gravity.

- Erosion

Sedimentary rocks that contain fragments or fossils.

- Biogenic

It describe the process by which rocks are folded and faulted.

- Deformation

A bulk movements of soil, sand, and rock debris downslopes in response to the force of gravity.

- Mass wasting

Matter is tranported to the surface of the earth and then erupted

- Volcanism

Genetic engineering involves?

- All of the above

Fossil evidence shows that structures considered vestigial in living organisms?

- were useful to their ancestors

It is naturally-occurring, coherent aggregate of minerals or solid materials such as natural glass

or organic matter.
 - Rock

Ecology is the study of the interaction of living organisms?

- with each other and their physical environment.

The action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something

- Mitigation

What are multiple alleles?

- Three or more forms of a gene that code for a single trait

The study of interactions between living organisms and environment is called?

- Ecology

DNA replication can be described as ?

- Semiconservative

The earliest evidence of life seems to have occured in the

- Precambrian Eon

All energy in a food chain originates from?

- The sun

Individuals that are well adapted to their environment will survive and produce?

- More offspring

A boundary between tectonic plates that slide past each other is called

- Transform boundary