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Evaporation and condernsation play which role in the water cycle?
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They recycle and redistribute water in an ecosystem.
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How many planets have a year that is shorter than Earth.
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2 the rotation around the sun is a year so the closer you are t the sun the shorter the year.
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What type of weather is associated with cumulus clouds.
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Sunny weather
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To apply the concept of time zones, students need to have a clear understanding of ...
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the concept of the meridians of longitude.
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What causes earthquakes?
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the movement of continental plates
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What gave rise to the current theory of plate tectonics?
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The Theory of Continental drift
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The theory of transcontinenntal migration
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Describes the process by which organisms living on one continent manage to migrate to other continents or to other regions within a continent.
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Corals belong to which animal kingdom?
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Animal
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Symbiotic means...
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that something exchanges services with other organisms
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What is conduction?
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A form of heat transfer.
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What is radiation?
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radiation describes different kinds of energy produced naturally by the sun and artificially by microwaves and cellular phones
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What is Kinetics?
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descibes movement, not energy transfer.
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What does the term commensalism refer to?
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describes a relationship where only one organism benifits while the other is not affected.
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Two substances that are chemically combined are known as...
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Compounds
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what is the key function of the food chain in the ecosystem?
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It maintains a balance among organisms.
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What are the five classifications of living things.
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Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plants, and Aminals
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How many elements are on the periodic table?
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112; and are compositions of matter.
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What instrument would measure relative humidity?
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Sling Psychrometer
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What are the basic states of matter
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Plasma, solid, liquid and gas.
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When it is winter in North America it is because?
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The earth is tilted on its axis with the North Pole tilted away from the sun.
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Why is mercury ideal for thermometers?
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the substance expands when heated.
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Are fosssil fuels a type of renewable resource?
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No fossil fuels such as natural gas, coal, and oil come from the remains of living matter and are not renewable.
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Astroids, planets,, moons, and comets are all part of what?
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Our solar system.
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What is the Milky Way?
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the name of our own cluster of stars or galaxy in whc the solar system (sun, planets, dwarf planets, comets, and meteoroids) reside.
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Black holes and quasars are part of what?
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objects in a distant galaxy.
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Volcano erruptions can cause what 4 natural physical events?
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Earthquakes, avalanches, mudslides and tsunamis.
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What determines how violent an erruption from a volcano will be?
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The amount of gas.
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Photosynthesis is when...
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plants take carbon dioxide from the environment and convert it into oxygen.
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Plants take energy fromm the sun and convert it to produce...
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Chemical energy which is used by living things.
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Where does the phrase"once in a blue moon" Come from?
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Every twelve months we have a full moon, since there are eleven extra days in the year every two or three years we have a extra full moon, and this is known as a Blue Moon.
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Melting of the ice caps is what type of change?
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Physical change
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Force is...
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the action of moving an object by pulling or pushing it.
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Work is...
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the product of the force acting in the direction of movenment and causing displacement.
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Energy is...
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the ability to do work.
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what has few or no moving parts and can change the size and direction of a force?
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Simple machine
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what is two or more simple machines working together to facilitate work.
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Complex machine
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Two or more atoms bonded together in a chemical bond are called what?
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Molecules
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What are atoms made up of?
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particles called electrons, neutrons and protons.
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a mixture that is homogeneous and the components are distributed evenly is known as...
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Solution
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Melting ice (boiling water), tearing paper, chopping wood, mixing sugar and water together are examples of what type of change?
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Physical change
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Burnng wood, mixing vinegar and baking soda and a rusting nail are exapmles of what type of change?
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chemical change.
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What type of change can be reversed?
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Physical change
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An object possessing energy because of its ability to move is knowm as what type of energy?
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Kinetic energy
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The energy necessary to transfer or convert potential energy into kinetic energy is called....
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Activation energy
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The energy that an object has as the result of its position or condition is called...
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potential energy
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What is the type of energy that travels rapidly through space?
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Radiation
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What term describes the flow of heat through the movement of matter from a hot region to a cooler region?
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Convection
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Lightening is what type of electricity?
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Static which mmeans it is not flowing or being transfered.
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Wind and solar energy are what type of resource?
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Renewable
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What is the smallest part of matter?
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Atoms
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Is the ammount of gravitational force exerted over an object.
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Weight
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Heat is transfered by ...
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Conduction, convection and radiation.
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Electric circuts may be____ and ___.
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Open or closed
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How does light travel?
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in waves and in a straight line but can be bent or reflected.
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Bacteria is what animal kingdom?
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Monera
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Protozoans are in what animal kingdom?
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Protista
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What are the three parts of an insect?
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Head, thorax, abdomen.
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The process of cells dividing to produce eggs and sperm cells each with half the number of chromosomes as the parent cell so they are ready to restore the normal number of the species upon fertilization.
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Meiosis
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The process of a cell spliting to create two identical cells.
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Mitosis
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What are the three main parts of the earth?
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Crust, mantle, core (inner core and outer core)
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Which of the three parts of earth do we live on?
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The crust, the thickness is anywhere from 3 to 40 miles thick.
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Which is the thickest layer of the earth?
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The mantle, it is composed mostly of rock and metals.
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The mantle is so hot that rock and metals melt creating magma and resulting in lava that reaches the surface.
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What is the inner core of the earth mostly made of?
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It is made of solid rock and nickle.
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The outer core of the earth is mostly....
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liquid
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What type of scale is used to measure the amount of energy due to an earthquake?
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A Richter Scale
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Where does EXFOLIATION occur?
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In places like the desert. The warmth of day causes the soil to expand then the cold makes the soil contract resulting in exfoliation.
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What is it called when water gets into cracks them freezes and expanding, breaking rock?
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Freeze-thaw
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What are the three types of sedimentary rocks?
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Clastic, chemical, organic
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What is the most common type of igneous rock?
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Granite
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What type of rocks are crystalline solids that form directly from the cooling of mmagma or lava?
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Igneous rocks
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What type of rocks are made from the remains of dead plants and animals?
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Organic sedimentary Rock
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What type of rocks are formed when water rich in minerals evaporate leaving the minerals behind?
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Chemical sedimentary rocks
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What type of rocks are made when pieces of rock, mineral, and organic material fuse together?
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Clastic sedimentary rocks
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What is the order of the planets?
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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
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What are the inner planets?
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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
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What are the outer planets?
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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
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During what stage is three quarters of the moon showing?
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Gibbous Moon
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