Chapter 1 & 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
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What are organic particles?
Particles that were once part of a living thing.
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What are the three states of matter?
Liquid, solid, gas
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What is the full definition for potential energy?
Stored energy based on the position or condition of an object
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What type of front is shown in the picture?
stationary
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What is the definition of a biome?
a large area of the earth in which plants and animals share a similar environment
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What is luster and what types of luster are there?
The way the mineral reflects light. Lusters can be dull, metallic, pearly, or brilliant.
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How are mass and weight different?
Mass measures the amount of material in a substance; Weight measures the amount of force gravity exerts on the matter
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What is the difference between thermal energy and temperature?
thermal energy measures the total kinetic energy; temperature measures the average
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How are stratus clouds and nimbostratus clouds different?
stratus clouds are lower to the ground and almost foggy; nimbostratus clouds are darker and result in rain
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What is the coldest biome?
tundra
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What other materials can organisms be preserved in?
Amber, permafrost, and tar.
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How do I know that a solution is concentrated?
There is a lot of solute in the solution
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What is the main difference between conduction and convection?
Answers must talk about "movement" or "changing location"
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Name the layers of the atmosphere from space to the Earth.
exosphere, thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, troposphere
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What biome has two main seasons, winter and summer, as well as a short autumn and spring?
coniferous forest (taiga)
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What is one of the main problems that evolutionists have with dating fossils?
Fossils aren’t always found in the order that they expect - the simplest life forms to the most complex. However, this can be explained by the Flood.
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What are all 6 terms for changing states of matter and the states the coordinate with?
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What are all 6 temperature conversions for absolute zero, water freezing, and water boiling for K, C, and F?
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State the global winds in order.
polar easterlies, prevailing westerlies, northeast trade winds, southeast trade winds, prevailing westerlies, polar easterlies
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How are prairies and savannas different?
Answers may include seasons, trees, animals.
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How are excavating fossils and preparing fossils different?
Excavating is taking them out of the rock; preparing is getting them ready for show or other purposes
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If I want to separate a mixture of iron spheres and rock spheres that are all the same size (1mm in diameter), how can I separate them in one second?
many answers, but probably using a magnet
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Your family is camping at a national park in the Arizonan desert during late spring. Although it is dusk, your family decided to go on a short hike. The day has been extremely hot, but the night air is cool. The park ranger says to watch out for rattlesnakes on large rocks. Why would snakes be on top of these rocks? You MUST talk about heat in your response.
The rocks are still hot due to radiation and they don't allow heat to pass through them easily (they're insulators). The snakes are cold-blooded and want the warmth.
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A large, swift-moving warm air mass meets a cold air mass. What weather event will occur?
a thunderstorm
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Mrs. Shauni is from what desert?
The Sonoran Desert