The process of making changes in the DNA code of living organisms is called?
Answer: genetic engineering.
It is naturally-occurring, coherent aggregate of minerals or solid materials such as natural
glass or organic matter.
Answer: Rock
The remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a
mold or cast in rock.
Answer: Fossils
Genetic engineering involves?
Answer: all of the above
A change or the process of change by which an organism or species becomes better suited
to its environment.
Answer: Adaptation
Natural selection results in change overtime by acting on traits that are?
Answer: heritable
Matter is tranported to the surface of the earth and then erupted
Answer: Volcanism
The different forms of a gene are called?
Answer: alleles
It forms a wave motion that is transmitted through the surface of the earth.
Answer: Earthquakes
It describe the process by which rocks are folded and faulted.
Answer: Deformation
Sedimentary rocks formed from "clasts"
Answer: Clastic rocks
A technique which can be used to seperate DNA fragments of differnt sizes is called?
Answer: Gel electrophoresis
All the individuals of a species that live in a particular area are called a?
Answer: population
All energy in a food chain originates from?
Answer: The Sun
The theory of evolution by natural selection was independently developed by?
Answer: Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace
A storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the carribean
Answer: Hurricanes
A stack orginally planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, that are bent or curved during
permannet deformation.
Answer: Fold
It gives rise to oceans, mountaiins and ridges
Answer: tectonic movements
A linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each
other.
Answer: Divergent Boundary
Is the laying down of sediments carried by wind, water, or ice.
Answer: Deposition
A rising of the sea as a result of atmospheric pressure changes wnd wind associated with a
storm
Answer: Storm surge
A DNA molecule produced by combining DNA from different sources is known as?
Answer: recombinant DNA.
A fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock
Answer: fault
Abiotic factors affect an ecosystem and include all of these except the?
Answer: nitrogen-fixing bacteria
Volcanism is associated with which of the following types of plate boundaries?
Answer: divergent and convergent plate boundaries
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.
Answer: Seafloor spreading
A bulk movements of soil, sand, and rock debris downslopes in response to the force of
gravity.
Answer: Mass wasting
Adaptive evolution can be caused by?
Answer: natural selection.
A boundary between tectonic plates that slide past each other is called__.
Answer: Transform boundary
The age of the Earth is currently thought to be
Answer: about 4,500,000,000 years old
Sedimentary rocks formed from the evaporation of water.
Answer: Chemical
The action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something
Answer: Mitigation
Sedimentary rocks that contain fragments or fossils.
Answer: Biogenic
What does a Punnett square show?
Answer: all the possible outcomes of a genetic cross
All the nonliving parts of an ecosystem are referred to as?
Answer: abiotic factors
Is the process by which soil and rock particles are worn away and moved elsewhere by
gravity.
Answer: erosion
The process that transports rocks, soil, and sediments to a different location is called______.
Answer: Erosion
An overflowing of a large amount of water beyond its normal confines, especailly over what
is normally dry land.
Answer: Flood
Ecology is the study of the interaction of living organisms?
Answer: with each other and their physical environment.
DNA replication can be described as ?
Answer: semiconservative
It is a system composed of four major spheres that interact with one another to help sustain
life.
Answer: Earth
It is the mixture of gases that surround the Earth.
Answer: Atmosphere
Fossil evidence shows that structures considered vestigial in living organisms?
Answer: were useful to their ancestors
What are multiple alleles?
Answer: Three or more forms of a gene that code for a single trait
A fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, especially one whose cause or
explanation is i question.
Answer: phenomenon
Hot molten or semifluid rock erupted from volcano or fissue, or solid rock resulting from
cooling off.
Answer: Lava
The earliest evidence of life seems to have occured in the_______.
Answer: Cenozoic Era
The study of interactions between living organisms and environment is called?
Answer: ecology
The physical location of an ecosystem in which a given species lives is called a?
Answer: habitat.
Individuals that are well adapted to their environment will survive and produce?
Answer: more offspring
