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What is the fundamental unit for length?
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Meter
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Think METRIC system
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What is the fundamental unit for mass?
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Kilograms
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What the doctor uses to weigh you
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What is the fundamental unit for time?
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Seconds
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Not minutes
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What is the fundamental unit for temperature?
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Kelvins
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Not Celsius or Fahrenheit
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What is a current?
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Electrical flow
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Think electric current
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What is the fundamental unit for current?
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Amperes
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Think amps for electric guitars
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What is the fundamental unit for brightness?
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Candela
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Think about how a candle is bright
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What is the fundamental unit for amounts of stuff?
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Mole
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I got nothin
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What does the prefix "centi" mean?
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Hundreth
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Think about how long a century is
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What does the prefix "milli" mean?
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Thousandth
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Think square root of one million
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What does the prefix "kilo" mean?
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Thousand
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A kilogram is 1000 grams
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What does the prefix "hecta" mean?
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Hundred
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Sorry
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What does the prefix "deca" mean?
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Ten
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How many years are in a decade
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What does the prefix "deci" mean?
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Tenth
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How many years are in a decade?
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What is a way to remember the metric units?
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King Henry Doesn't Usually Drink Chocolate Milk
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KHDudcm
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What method do you use to figure unit conversions
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Dot Line
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Two very simple steps
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How do you do Dot Line?
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Multiply by a unit fraction that is equal to one
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You add a dot like multiplication problems then draw a line like the one in a fraction
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What is the viral infection in West Africa?
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Ebola
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Could kill everyone, and the news wouldn't shut up about it
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What is WHO?
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The World Health Organization
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They help people around the world
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What is the chemical in your body that prevents sleep?
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Melatonin
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You take it right before bed
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What are variables?
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Factors in an experiment that affect the outcome
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What is another name for the manipulated variable?
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The independent variable
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MIX
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What is the responding variable?
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The variable that changes as a result of what you manipulated
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DRY
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What is the manipulated or independent variable?
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It is the variable that you purposely change in an experiment.
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Manipulation it's what you manipulate
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What is another name for the responding variable?
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The dependent variable
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DRY
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What are constant variables?
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Variables in an experiment that do not change.
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What does it mean to stay constant?
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What is a control?
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A standard of comparison in an experiment
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What is DRY?
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Dependent, responding, y axis
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What is MIX?
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Manipulated, independent, x axis
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What is slope?
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A relationship between the manipulated in the responding variable
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Think back to algebra
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How do you find slope?
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Rise over run or y=MX+B
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Math formula
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What is a quantitative observation?
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An observation that has to do with numbers
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Quantity have the same root
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What is a qualitative observation?
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An observation that has to do with qualities of an object
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Quality and qualitative have the same root
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What is an inference?
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A conclusion that is based off of what you observe
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You often infer the end of a book based off of what you have read
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What is soil?
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A loose weathered material found on the Earth's surface
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Weathered
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What percent of soil composition is solid material?
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50%
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Half
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What percent of soil composition is liquid material?
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25%
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A quarter
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What percent of soil composition is gas?
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25%
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Same amount as water
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How is soil formed?
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By the weathering of rocks
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Name the five types of mechanical weathering
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Freezing and thawing, plant growth, abrasion, animal actions, and release of pressure
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What type of weathering leaves the smaller pieces identical to the parent material?
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Mechanical weathering
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Name the five types of chemical weathering
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Living organisms, carbon dioxide, water, oxygen, and acidic rain
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What type of weathering leaves the new product completely different from the parent material?
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Chemical weathering
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What is weathering by oxygen called?
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Oxidation
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It has the same beginning as oxygen
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What are the three factors that affect the rate at which chemical weathering occurs?
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Climate, type of rock, and surface area
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What climate will speed up the rate at which chemical weathering occurs?
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A hot and wet climate
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Humid
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will more or less surface area speed up the occurrence of chemical weathering?
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More surface area
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The bigger the better
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Soil forms in layers. What are these layers called?
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Soil horizons
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What horizon is the first to form?
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C horizon
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Think backwards alphabetical order
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How is the C horizon formed?
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Exposed bedrock is weathered away and broken into smaller pieces
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It's the horizon closest to bedrock
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What must occur for a horizon to form?
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Plant roots must take hold
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What horizon is last to form?
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B horizon
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What is another name for B horizon?
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sub soil
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What is another name for A Horizon
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Topsoil
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A horizon is at the top of stack
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What is the very top layer called?
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Surface
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What are the three particles that make up the solid material in soil's composition?
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sand, silt, and clay
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What is the perfect soil called that has an equal amount of each particle?
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loam
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What is permeability?
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How easily liquid travels through soil
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What is porosity?
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The space in between each particle in soil
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Think about the pores on your face
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What was the area where a ten year period of drought and dust storm occurred called?
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The Dust Bowl
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