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What causes earthquakes?
The movement of Earth's tectonic plates
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An educated guess or prediction
Hypothesis
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What is a dependent variable?
The variable that is being measured or tested
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What is the measure of the amount of water vapor in the air?
Humidity
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Which variable is not affected by other variables?
Independent variable
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Describe the movement of tectonic plates at a transform boundary
Sliding past each other
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What is Paleontology?
The study of fossils or ancient life
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What is Geology?
Study of rocks or the Earth
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A giant, slowly moving body of ice
Glacier
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What is Seismology?
Study of earthquakes
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An animal that eats both plants and meat
Omnivore
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Which layer of Earth is liquid?
Outer core
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What is the difference between a mesa and a butte?
Buttes are smaller than mesas
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What is Ecology?
The study of ecosystems
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Underwater earthquakes may result in a giant wave known as ___________
Tsunami
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This type of fossil shows animal behavior, such as footprints
Trace fossil
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What is an abiotic factor?
Non-living parts of an environment (soil, rocks, water, air, etc)
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A diagram consisting of all the food chains in a particular ecosystem
Food web
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A fossil that shows the actual shape of the living thing from the past, such as a fossil skeleton
Body fossil
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The thickest of Earth's layers
Mantle
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What is Meteorology?
The study of weather
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In what layer of the atmosphere does most weather occur?
Troposphere
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At what type of plate boundary do mountains form?
Convergent
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What is the difference between weather and climate?
Weather is short-term
Climate is long-term patterns in weather
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What does an anenometer measure?
Wind (speed and direction)