
Explain how the student can determine the height of the building. If the kinetic energy of the tennis ball is known when it hits the ground. In your explanation, use the terms kinetic energy, gravitional potential energy, acceleration due to gravity, mass, and height. Do not use the equation. Enter your answer in the space provided.


Based on the Arctic sea ice images from 1978 to 2016, what is most likely going to occur from 2017 to 2027?
In this performance task, you will answer six questions.
You will be using fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster, to study genetics. Fruit flies are studied because they have a short life cycle and have only 4 pairs of chromosomes. The flies will be crossed to observe the inheritance pattern of eye color and wing shape. The fruit flies are kept in jars with pieces of banana to serve as a nutrient source. The fruit flies were ordered from a supply company, and each jar contains its own phenotype. You will use the jars containing different fruit flies to answer questions.
Based on the results in the data table, explain why there are no flies with short wings. Type your answer in the space provided.
In the space provided, explain the effect melting ice has on coastal areas that are found at sea level currently.
To further the study, two flies from the offsprings of the F1 generation are crossed and produce an F2 generation.

The number and phenotype of the offspring are shown below.

What percent of the F2 generation is expected to be heterozygous for long wings?
Using the Punnett square provided, draw the correct parents that would be expected to produce approximately 50% homozygous brown-eyed offspring and 50% heterozygous offspring
To allow the students to observe an additional trait, the teacher given them a fly with a darker body color than the other flies, which have a lighter body color. The students crossed the dark-body-colored fly with the light-body-colored fly. The cross is represented in the Punnett square below.

The students then crossed two flies from the F1 generations and recorded the following results:
162 light-body-colored fruit flies
52 dark-body-colored fruit flies
Explain how the dark body color of the fruit flies remained in the gene pool.