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