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100
The amount of time it takes Earth to complete an entire orbit around the sun.
1 year
or
365 days
100
The innermost layer of Earth.
Inner core
100
There are three types of heat transfer; name any two of them.
Conduction, convection, and radiation
100
Name any energy storage molecule
Glucose, starch, amino acids
100
This is the energy associated with motion
Kinetic energy
200
An object made of rock, ice, dust, frozen CO2, and leaves a "trail" of gas behind it when it passes close to the sun.
A comet
200
What is the difference between lava and magma?
Magma is molten rock below the Earth's surface; lava is molten rock above the Earth's surface
200
Name any two greenhouse gases
Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen dioxide, CFC's
200
What is needed for photosynthesis to occur, and what is produced?
Needed: carbon dioxide + Water + Light
Produced: Glucose (sugar) and oxygen
200
Name three phase changes
Melting, freezing, evaporation, condensation, sublimation, deposition
300
An event that occurs when the moon blocks the sun from Earth's view.
Solar eclipse
300
The process by which rivers wear down rock over time to form canyons.
Erosion
300
This famous scientist was influential in showing how organisms with more adaptive traits were able to survive in their environments.
Charles Darwin
300
Where does the rabbit in this food web get it's energy from? Where does it's energy go?
Gets its energy from green plants
The rabbit's energy goes to the wild cat or jackal
300
Name two forces that resist an object's motion
Friction, air resistance, drag
400
This is the warmest planet in our solar system
Venus
400
Name the three types of plate boundaries
Convergent, divergent, and transform
400
What is the Coriolis Effect and how does it affect the atmosphere and ocean currents?
Make storms spin in specific directions; controls directions of ocean currents;
400
How would removing snakes from the food web impact the mouse AND kite populations?
Mouse population would INCREASE
Kite population would DECREASE
400
With repelling magnets, how can you INCREASE the potential energy of the system?
You move the magnets closer together
500
The phase of the moon when the shadow is growing to the point which most of the moon is hidden.
Waning crescent
500
Name the three types of rock AND how they are made
Igenous (made from cooled lava/magma); sedimentary (made from compacted and cemented rocks); metamorphic (rocks under heat and pressure)
500
There are five components of this wave; name all five (ALL OR NOTHING)
A: Crest
B: Trough
C: Axis
D: Wavelength
E: Amplitude
500
The form of reproduction that requires only one parent, and the offspring has identical DNA as the parent.
Asexual reproduction
500
What is the difference between thermal energy and temperature?
Thermal energy is the TOTAL energy in an object; temperature is the AVERAGE KE of the molecules in an object.