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Volcanic belts form along
What are the boundaries of Earth's plates
100
Earth's atmosphere is important to living things because
What provides all the gases that living things need to survive
100
Any form of water that falls from clouds is called
What is precipitation
100
The nonliving parts of an ecosystem are called
What is abiotic?
100
A funnel shaped cloud that touches Earth's surface
What is a tornado?
200
The main hazard from a quiet volcanic eruption
What are lava flows
200
As you rise upwards in the atmosphere, air pressure
What is decreases
200
Cool air tends to be
more dense and flow under warm air
200
Which of the following is a biotic factor in the prairie ecosystem: water, sunlight, rock, or grass
What is grass
200
Most of Earth's incoming ultraviolet radiation is absorbed by
What is ozone?
300
A volcano that is unlikely to erupt again is considered to be
What is extinct
300
Earth's atmosphere traps energy from the sun, which . . .
What is allows water to exist as a liquid.
300
The layer of the atmosphere in which weather occurs
What is the troposphere
300
An organism's habitat must provide all of the following except: food, water, predators, shelter
What is predators
300
In an energy pyramid, which level has the most available energy?
What is the producer level?
400
What triggers the small earthquakes that occur around a volcano before an eruption
What is the upward movement of magma?
400
Convection takes place because
What is cold air is more dense than warm air
400
The average, year-to-year conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds, and clouds in an area are known as
What is climate
400
The smallest unit of ecological organization is a single
What is organism
400
Winds are caused by
What are differences of air pressure?
500
What substance found in magma determines if a volcano will have a quiet or explosive eruption
What is silica?
500
Heat transfer between two substances that are in contact is called
What is conduction
500
Earth's rotation makes global winds curve
What is the Corolios effect?
500
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web is called
What is an energy pyramid
500
Climates are classified according to two major factors
What are precipitation and temperature?
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