Earth's Processes
What is erosion?
What will happen to the amount of kinetic energy if an object’s mass increases?
What is the kinetic energy will increase?
The basic unit of matter.
What is an atom?
When natural habitats are no longer able to support the species present, resulting in the displacement.
What is habitat destruction?
True or False.
Horseplay and other inappropriate conduct are permitted in the lab if they produce no harm.
What is FALSE?
The decomposition of rocks due to reactions occurring between the minerals in rocks and the environment.
What is chemical weathering?
The pigment needed for photosynthesis.
What is Chlorophyll?
A chemical element (atomic number 6) found in all organic matter.
What is carbon?
The ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's oceans, caused by the increase of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere.
What is Ocean Acidification?
Class slides and a list of daily assignments are located on this.
What is the Blog?
An extinct marine arthropod that occurred abundantly during the Paleozoic era.
What is a trilobite?
True/False: In addition to photosynthesis, plants also need to undergo respiration.
What is TRUE?
A group of two or more atoms that form the smallest identifiable unit of a pure substance.
What is a molecule?
Results in new weather patterns that last for at least a few decades, and maybe for millions of years.
What is climate change?
The sound used to get your attention in science class.
The name of the Meteorologist who created the theory of Continental Drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
A student holds two iron magnets, one in each hand. The south pole of one magnet is pointed towards the south pole of the other magnet. As the magnets get closer to each other, they will
What is repel each other more strongly?
The subatomic particle that determines the identity of an element.
What is a proton?
Nitrogen and phosphorus are added to bodies of water and can cause excessive growth of algae.
What is nutrient pollution?
The title on Mrs. Gordy's class name plate
What is secret agent?
The science of determining the relative order of past events.
What is relative dating?
What type of energy do Maglev trains use to help them move along the track?
What is Magnetic Potential Energy?
6CO2 + 6H2O + light energy = C6H12O6 + 6O2.
What is the name of the branch of science that determines whether this equation is balanced?
What is Stoichiometry?
An environmental phenomenon where the concentration of dissolved oxygen in the water column decreases to a level that can no longer support living aquatic organisms.
What is hypoxia?
A law stating that like charges repel and opposite charges attract, with a force proportional to the product of the charges.
What is Coulomb's law?