What is the primary soucre of energy for all organisms?
The sun
100
A thermometer is used to measure what?
Temperature
100
What graph would be used to display the number of paper clips each type of magents can pick up?
Bar graph
100
What is the process of moving weathered rock to a new location?
erosion
100
What unit is used to measure water temperture?
degrees
200
What is a producer?
A plant, an organism that makes its own food from the energy of the sun through photosynthesis
200
Rain, snow, and sleet are all examples of what?
Precipitation
200
You are construcsting a data collection table for an investigation. How many trials must be conducted to obtain valid results?
Three
200
What is a break in the Earth's crust where sections of rock slide past each other?
fault
200
A food web shows _______________________.
many interconnected food chains
300
What best describes a predator?
An animal(consumer) that consumes other animals (consumers)
300
A psychrometer is a device is used to measure whats?
Relative Humidity
300
Which of the following is the part of the investigation that will be changed by the investigator?
a. dependent variable
b. controlled variable
c. independent variable
d. interdependent variable
c. independent variable
300
Which of the following is an effect of wind erosion?
a. It forms sand dunes
b. It carves out canyons
c. It forms delta at the mouth of a river
d. It creates gullies and rivers
a. It forms sand dunes
300
Put in order the layers of the Earth from first to last
inner core, mantle, outer core, crust
crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
400
Organisms need a continuous supply of energy. It can either be used immediately or____________________.
stored
400
High pressure is an indication of what?
Fair weather
400
What isthe purpose of listing the materials and procedures for an investigation?
to allow someone else to follow the same steps to replicate the investigation
400
What is measured using Moh's scale?
hardness
400
Which of the following is not an affect of a low pressure system?
a. precipitation
b. high winds
c. serve weather
d. sunny skies
sunny skies
500
What are the three ways producers benefit consumers?
Shelter, Oxygen, Food
500
Before a storm, what usually happens to the barometric pressure of an area?
The barometric pressure decreases
500
Which of the following is the part of an ivestigation that is observed and measured?
a. dependent variable
b. controlled variable
c. independent variable
d.interdependent variable
a. dependent variable
500
Which of the following defines the process of deposition?
a. tracking temperture patterns of an area
b. breaking up rocks on the Earth's surface
c. transporting sediments to new locations
d. dropping sediments in new locations
d. dropping sediments in new locations
500
_____________ is the best defined as two or more things affecting each other.