OST Review

What two characteristics make a fossil an index fossil?

This pedigree represents the inheritance of hemophilia in this family. How many of the females have the hemophilia trait?

Explain 2 differences between Mitosis and Meiosis.

Explain a difference between a P and S Wave.

What are the genotypes for male and female

Give an advantage of Asexual and Sexual Reproduction.

The Rocky Mountains are high and jagged. The Appalachian Mountains are lower and rounded. What can you infer about their ages?

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?

In which layer of earth are there convection currents?

On a pedigree chart, which symbols represent a male and female?

Which line could travel to Earth's core? What kind of wave is this?

Draw and label a free-body diagram that would accelerate to the right. (vectors!!!)

Which force breaks or wears away the Earth?

Alfred Wegner developed the idea of Continental drift based on three types of evidence.  Name two of them.

What happens when continental crust and oceanic crust converge? What is it called?

What did Charles Darwin call the idea that organisms with helpful traits will survive long enough to reproduce and pass on those traits?

On your whiteboard, draw a time-distance graph that fits the following scenario: I sprinted to 2nd period, but then I tripped and fell. I picked myself back up and sprinted again.

Push, Pull, Gravity, Friction - Which is a non-contact force?

Which type of force causes tension?  Which type of force causes compression?

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

What phenotype of the offspring have brown hair? Blonde hair?  (A-Brown hair; a-blond hair)

How are individuals I-2 and III-5 related?

What is the magnitude of letter E?

What do we call all of the evidence of living things that is stored inside the Earth?

What structure that is causing the Atlantic ocean to grow was discovered by Harry Hess during World War II?

With your team, come up with a short story that represents the slope of this distance-time graph.

List the layers of the Earth in order from the outside in.

What do we call the force that surfaces exert to prevent solid objects from passing through each other?