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the people who apply science
Who are engineers?
100
Amount of matter in an object
What is mass?
100
type of rock formed from magma cooling
What is igneous?
100
amount of moisture in air
What is humidity?
100
form of water from clouds
What is precipitation?
200
this process introduced oxygen into the atmosphere
What is photosynthesis?
200
basic unit for length
What is meter?
200
type of weathering that does NOT change composition of rocks
What is physical?
200
This protects earth from space debris, UV radiation and high energy solar particles
What is the atmosphere?
200
number of centimeters in a meter
What is 100?
300
convert 35 km to cm
What is 3,500,000?
300
convert 346.3 to scientific notation
What is 3.46 x 10^2?
300
4 main layers of the earth in order
What is crust, mantle, outer core, inner core?
300
4 main layers of the atmosphere in order
What is troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere?
300
what scientific models let scientists do
What is make predictions?
400
the difference between weather and climate
What is weather changes daily while climate is weather over a long period of time?
400
number of significant figures in 0.0640
What is 4?
400
process in which sediment is laid down
What is deposition?
400
these 2 things determine the climate of a region
What is temperature and moisture?
400
atmosphere layer with greatest air pressure
What is troposphere?
500
how the 3 types of rocks are formed
What is metamorphic - heat and pressure igneous - cooling of lava or magma sedimentary - weathering, cementation
500
The steps of the scientific method
What is observation, question, hypothesis, experiment, data collection, conclusion?
500
what the magma released from volcanoes is
What is molten rocks from mantle and crust?
500
the process by which gases hold onto heat in the atmosphere
What is the greenhouse effect?
500
Name 2 types of volcanoes with their correct type of eruptions
What is shield - mild composite - mild and violent cinder cone - violent