Earth & Space
What are Florida landforms found near the ocean?
Coastline and dunes.
What should someone wear to protect their eyes from ultraviolet radiation?
Sunglasses.
What is one thing all living things are made of?
Cells.
What force pulls objects toward Earth?
Gravity.
When reading a graph, what should you look at first?
The title and labels.
Salt Spring has salty minerals in the water. Which two Earth systems are interacting?
Hydrosphere and geosphere.
What process transfers heat when warm ground touches cooler air?
Conduction.
What part of the cell controls what goes in and out?
Cell membrane.
A magnet moves a paperclip without touching it. Is this a contact or non-contact force
Non-contact force.
If a distance-time graph is a straight line going upward, what does that show?
Constant speed.
Which type of weathering breaks rock without changing what the rock is made of?
Physical weathering.
Are Santa Ana winds local winds or global winds?
Local winds.
What does selectively permeable mean?
It lets some materials pass through and keeps others out.
If an object is not moving, what is the net force?
Zero / balanced forces.
If a ball has equal potential and kinetic energy at a point on a graph, what does that mean?
The energy is split evenly between stored energy and motion energy.
If water freezes inside cracks in a rock and breaks it apart, what is happening?
Frost wedging / physical weathering.
What is one dangerous result of a hurricane?
Flooding and wind damage.
Which cell part is found in plant cells but not animal cells: chloroplast or cell membrane?
Chloroplast.
To lift a heavy cabinet off the floor, the upward force must be stronger than what force?
Gravity / weight pulling down.
If the same distance is traveled in less time, did the object move faster or slower?
Faster.
A student sees a rock broken into smaller pieces. Is this always chemical weathering? Explain.
No. If the rock only breaks into smaller pieces, it is physical weathering.
Dew forms on grass overnight. What usually happens to the air temperature?
Warm air cools, and water vapor condenses.
Put these in order from smaller to larger: organ, organism, cell, tissue, organ system.
Cell → tissue → organ → organ system → organism.
Two students want to turn a cabinet. Should they push in the same direction or opposite directions at opposite ends?
Opposite directions at opposite ends.
A test question asks for the “best” answer. What should students do before choosing?
Read all answer choices and eliminate wrong answers.