Cells & Body Systems
This is the smallest unit of all life.
This state of matter has no defined volume or shape.
Gas
This plate boundary is defined as plates moving away from each other causing seafloor spreading.
Divergent plate boundary
This natural hazard is caused by transform plate boundaries sliding past each other.
Earthquakes
This color REFLECTS all light.
+50 bonus points for stating which color ABSORBS all light.
White
Bonus: Black
These TWO organelles are found only in plants.
+100 pts per answer
Chloroplast and Cell wall
Heat always moves from an object with _____ heat to an object with _____ heat.
Heat always moves from an object with MORE heat to an object with LESS heat.
The Law of Superposition states that...
The older rock layers are on the bottom and the younger rock layers are on the top.
This is the driving force for the water cycle, weather, and climate.
The Sun!!!!
Amplitude refers to the ____ of the wave and wavelength refers to the _____ between waves.
+100 points per blank
Amplitude refers to the HEIGHT of the wave and wavelength refers to the DISTANCE between waves.
+100 points per blank
What are the three types of sensory inputs? +100 pts for each
Taste and smell:
Hearing and touch:
Sight:
Taste and smell: CHEMICAL
Hearing and touch: MECHANICAL
Sight: ELECTROMAGNETIC
Match the three types of heat transfer to their definition. +100 points for each.
1. Heat transfer through direct contact
2. Heat transfer through the air
3. Heat rising and cool falling in air and liquids
1. Conduction
2. Radiation
3. Convection
Define each term in the process of rocks turning into sediments. +100 points for each. (Remember key words)
1. Weathering:
2. Erosion:
3. Deposition:
1. Breaking down of rocks
2. Movement of sediments
3. Dropping/settling of sediments
This is the difference between weather and climate.
+100 bonus points (total) for giving an example of each one.
Weather is short term atmospheric conditions and climate is long term atmospheric conditions.
Bonus: Weather = storms, rain, temp. changes.
Climate = climate regions, monthly/yearly changes
____ objects allow ALL light to pass through, _____ objects allow SOME scattered light to pass through, and ____ objects allow NO light to pass through.
+100 points per blank
TRANSPARENT objects allow ALL light to pass through, TRANSLUCENT objects allow SOME scattered light to pass through, and OPAQUE objects allow NO light to pass through.
What would be the stimulus and response in the following scenario:
"Julia jumped when she heard a loud noise behind her."
+200 points for naming each.
+100 bonus points for naming the type of input.
Stimulus: The loud noise
Response: Julia Jumped
Bonus: Mechanical input (hearing)
When a liquid GAINS thermal energy, it will ____ into a ____.
+100 points per blank
When a liquid LOSES thermal energy, it will freeze into a solid.
When a liquid GAINS thermal energy, it will evaporate into a gas.
A fault in a rock layer is caused by ______, while an intrusion in a rock layer is caused by ______.
+200 pts per answer
1. Earthquakes
2. Magma (cooling)
Name the four types of air masses.
+100 points for each (400 total)
Continental Tropical
Maritime Polar
Maritime Tropical
Describe why we see the color of a lime as green.
All colors are absorbed and green is reflected.
Describe how the DIGESTIVE system can help the body move.
The digestive system provides the body with nutrients by breaking down food. The body uses nutrients and food for energy so other organ systems can help the body move and function.
Describe TWO times we can see convection currents in real life.
+250 per scenario.
+100 bonus points for any scenarios AFTER the original two.
- In the magma under Earth's crust helping with seafloor spreading
- In Earth's atmosphere through land and sea breezes
- In Earth's atmosphere impacting climate regions
- In the water cycle (evaporation rises, precipitation falls)
What are the 5 stages of the rock cycle?
______ > ______> ______ > ______ > ______
+100 points for each in the correct order. Just the stages, not how they get there.
Magma > Igneous Rock > Sediments > Sedimentary Rock > Metamorphic Rock
Give the names of the regions/areas below. +100 points per name. (One answer is repeated)
Area at 0 degrees latitude:
Area between 0 and 30 degrees latitude:
Area between 30 and 60 degrees latitude:
Area between 60 and 90 degrees latitude:
Area that receives the MOST direct sunlight:
Area at 0 degrees latitude: EQUATOR
Area between 0 and 30 degrees latitude: TROPIC
Area between 30 and 60 degrees latitude: TEMPERATE
Area between 60 and 90 degrees latitude: POLAR
Area that receives the MOST direct sunlight: EQUATOR
Describe why light can travel in space but sound cannot. +250 points
Describe what light travels the fastest through and what sound travels the fastest through. +250 points
1. Sound needs a medium to travel.
2. Light = empty space, sound = solids