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38 Cards in this Set
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Correct Sequence of organization of living things from lower to higher order: |
Organelle Cell Tissue Organ System Organism |
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What are galaxies |
a system of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction. Solar system is part of Milky Way galaxy |
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List Mesozoic era from earliest to most recent |
Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous |
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Glass rod rubbed with silk causes a net positive charge to accumulate because of... |
The loss of electrons |
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Molecules transfer energy through collision |
This is consistent with the kinetic theory of ideal gases |
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Boiling point of water on the Kelvin scale |
373k |
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Earth's thickest layer is called |
The Mantle |
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Why does the sun appear to rise and set each day? |
Earth rotates |
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The skeletons of sharks are made up of: |
Cartilage |
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Adult frogs breathe with their... |
Lungs |
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An object is accelerated when it is acted on by: |
An unbalanced force |
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Closest planet to the sun |
Mercury....it has craters and rocks and atmospher is made of hydrogen, helium, and sodium |
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Smallest particle of an element that retains the properties of that element |
Atom |
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COMPOUNDS are made of |
Made up of one kind of particle, formed during a chemical change, and broken down only by chemical changes |
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All ___________ contain the elements oxygen and hydrogen |
Bases |
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_____________is the ability to cause change in matter. |
Energy |
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Plasma is a gas that has been________, at least one electron has been removed from some of its atoms. |
Ionized |
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A nucleus surrounded by a cloud with moving electrons |
Atom |
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An oject's MASS gives it a reluctance to changeits state of motion. It is also the measure of an object's resistance to ACCELERATION |
... |
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Composite volcanoes ate built by.... |
Built by both lava flows in layers of Ash and cinders |
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When lava cools, this type of rock is formed: |
Igneous |
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MONSOONS |
Huge wind systems that cover a large geographic areas and that reverse direction seasonally. |
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The largest planet in the solar system containing sixteen satellites |
Jupiter |
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Which property determines the direction of the exchange of internal energy between two objects? |
Temperature |
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Translucent |
Allows light to pass through in a diffuse manner |
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Light is a form of |
Energy |
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An object's ability to float depends on its |
Density |
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A balance between energy loss and energy game is called |
Radiative balance |
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Main ingredient in soil |
Weathered rocks |
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Fossils are mostly found and what kind of rock |
Sedimentary |
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Why is the moon unlivable compared to Earth |
There's no air to breathe, no water to drink, surface temperature can be hotter than boiling water |
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Insects, spiders, lobsters, and crabs are all: |
Arthropods |
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Baking is an example of |
Chemical change |
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The ability of a substance to be changed into a new substance |
Chemical property |
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Heat |
A measure of energy |
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Heat capacity |
Amount of heat energy it takes to raise the temperature of the object by 1 degrees Celsius |
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CALORIE |
Amount of energy takes to raise 1 gram of water 1 degree Celsius |
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FUSION POWER mimics the process that produces the energy of the.... |
Sun. The technology does not currently exist for this form of nuclear energy |