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    Ohio State test grade 8 science review
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  • What do we call all of the evidence of living things that is stored inside the Earth?
    fossil record
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  • List the layers of the Earth in order from the outside in.
    crust - mantle - outer core - inner core
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  • What did Charles Darwin call the idea that organisms with helpful traits will survive long enough to reproduce and pass on those traits?
    Natural Selection
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  • The Rocky Mountains are high and jagged. The Appalachian Mountains are lower and rounded. What can you infer about their ages?
    Appalachian Mountains (been around longer to be weathered).
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  • What phenotype of the offspring have brown hair? Blonde hair?  (A-Brown hair; a-blond hair)
    75% Brown Hair and 25% Blonde Hair
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  • On a pedigree chart, which symbols represent a male and female?
    Square = male;  Circle = Female
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  • How are individuals I-2 and III-5 related?
    grandma and grandson
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  • This pedigree represents the inheritance of hemophilia in this family. How many of the females have the hemophilia trait?
    2
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  • Refer to the pedigree. How could person ll-2 and ll-3 have a baby with the hemophilia trait when neither of them show the trait
    They are carriers of the hemophilia trait (heterozygous)
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  • What happens when continental crust and oceanic crust converge? What is it called?
    Oceanic crust is pushed down; Subduction
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  • Which line could travel to Earth's core? What kind of wave is this?
    Line B / P-Wave
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  • S is the Focus of the earthquake and N is the epicenter. X and Z are seismograph stations. Which of the following sets of seismogram readings are correct for the picture?
    3
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  • Explain a difference between a P and S Wave.
    P Waves = faster, can go through any layer, longitudinal wave. S Waves = slower, can only go through solids, transverse wave.
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  • What are the genotypes for male and female
    male = XY; female = XX
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  • Which force breaks or wears away the Earth?
    weathering
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  • What do we call the force that surfaces exert to prevent solid objects from passing through each other?
    Normal force
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