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This part of the scientific method is well-tested and explains a wide range of observations.

What is a theory?

A factor in an experiment that can change.

What is a variable?

A sample that is treated exactly like the other experimental groups except that the variable is not applied.

What is a control group?

A prediction or statement that can be

tested.

What is a hypothesis?

The six steps in the scientific method.

What is1.Observation2.Question3.Hypothesis4.Data Collection5.Results6.Conclusion?

Hess describes this event when magma heats up from the mantle, rises, cools and sinks.

What is a convection cell?

The longest mountain chain on Earth comes to the surface only on this location.

What is Iceland?

The Hawaiian Islands and the Emperor Seamount chain was formed at this geological feature.

What is a hotspot?

Ridges on the seafloor are sites of this geological activity.

What is seafloor spreading?

Periodic reversal of the earth’s magnetic field found in seafloor rocks was evidence for this.

Plate tectonics or plate movement.

The theory that offspring inherit the traits acquired during the life span of the parents was proposed by this person.

Who is Lamarck?

This rare mineral was found at the K-T boundary layer.

What is iridium?

James Hutton proposed this theory that the earth changes through a variety of slow geologic processes

What is Uniformitarianism?

This person remarked that evolutionary change involves the accumulation of many small incremental changes over long periods of time.

Who is Darwin?

Captain Cooks contribution to log sea voyages.

What is Vitamin C?

Chlorofluorocarbon breaks down this molecule.

What is Ozone (O3)?

The three main gasses that contribute to global warming?

What are methane, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide?

Coral bleaching due to rising temperatures causes coral to lose this symbiont.

What is zoothanthellae?

An event when a mass of warm water moves over the eastern Pacific, shutting off the upwelling, and creating more powerful storms.

What is El Nino?

The current amount of CO2 in today's atmosphere.

What is 391 ppm?

An organisms that lacks a nucleus and membrane bound organelles.I

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What is a prokaryote?

The type of bonding found in water

What is covalent?

A chemical substance that resists the dramatic changes in pH

What is a buffer?

Biological molecules are made up of these our elements

What are CHON?

The ozone layer in the atmosphere screens out 99% of this from reaching the earth’s surface.

What is UV light?