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100
This human activity most relies on high-quality soil? - Hiking - Hunting - Coal mining - Growing crops
What is hiking?
100
This is a natural resource of Virginia. - A dam - A glacier - A river - A power plant
What is a river?
100
This is an inference rather than an observation. - An animal has hair. - An animal has a tail. - An animal is arching its back. - An animal is frightened.
What is an animal is frightened?
100
To make an electromagnet, a conductor should be coiled around — - a glass tube - an iron nail - a roll of paper - a wooden stick
What is an iron nail?
100
Of the following, this is the best observation of the refraction of light? - Looking at oneself in a mirror - Looking at a shadow of an object - Viewing an object through an open window - Viewing an object partially in water
What is viewing an object partially in water?
200
This is the steeply sloping portion of the ocean that drops off from the continental shelf.
What is the continental slope?
200
This is the movement of sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?
200
Acorn barnacles are seashore animals found on rocks. They live 1 to 2 meters above low-tide level. These rocks are the acorn barnacles’ — - ecosystem - community - food web - habitat
What is their habitat?
200
Early scientists most likely saw a discharge of electricity for the first time when observing a — - waterfall - rainbow - lightning storm - volcano erupting
What is a lightening storm?
200
A football player passing the ball is an example of this type of energy.
What is kinetic?
300
A scientist found a fossil of an organism that had gills. When the organism was living, this is what the area in which it lived was most likely covered by —
What is water?
300
These types of organism have cells with cell walls?
What are plants?
300
The great horned owl has a sharp beak and claws used for catching prey and tearing meat. It has good eyesight to see in low light. This most likely describes the niche of the great horned owl. - Hunts small animals at night - Grazes on grass during the day - Comes out at dusk to sweep the sky for insects - Comes out at dawn to get worms from the ground
What is hunts small animals at night?
300
An object is traveling north at a speed of 12 kilometers per hour. This characteristic of the object is being described. - Matter - Motion - Volume - Temperature
What is motion?
300
Sonar helps people find this information about an object. - Color - Weight - Location - Temperature
What is location?
400
Pumice is formed when lava from a volcano cools. Which rock type is pumice?
What is an igneous rock?
400
This is one of the most important product of Virginia forests. - Pecan trees - Pine cones - Hardwood lumber - Maple leaves
What is hardwood lumber?
400
All of the populations of species in an area make up this.
What is a community?
400
This energy transformation most likely occurs in a steam iron. - Electrical energy changes to heat energy. - Electrical energy changes to sound energy. - Mechanical energy changes to heat energy. - Mechanical energy changes to light energy.
What is electrical energy changes to heat energy.
400
This part of an automobile is transparent.
What is a window?
500
This often occurs as the Earth’s crustal plates move.
What are earthquakes?
500
The surface of the Moon is made up of these three physical features.
What are craters, highlands, and flat areas?
500
Converting solar energy into sugar is the primary function of this part of a plant.
What is a leaf.
500
Pushing a large, heavy box up a ramp is easier if the ramp is smooth because it creates less of this.
What is friction?
500
A 5 foot person makes a shadow that is 10 feet long. A tree makes a shadow that is 40 feet long. This is the height of the tree.
What is 20 feet?