Earth/Space Science
What phase occurs when the moon is completly illuminated?
Full Moon
A car's speed moves from 20 mph to 40 mph what is this?
Acceleration
A clownfish is able to live safely in a sea anemones what relationship is this? and Explain how you know.
Mutualism. The fish has somewhere to live and the anemone is protected by the fish.
Why is repetition and replication important in science?
In order for scientist to make sure their data is valid and reliable.
What property of a Star determines its color?
Temperature.
A plant absrobing water from the soil is an interaction between which spheres?
Hydrosphere, Biosphere, Geosphere.
How do you calculate density?
Mass divided by Volume.
What is the largest classification group?
Domain
True or False Hypothesis can become theories.
False
What type of heat transfer takes place in the mantle of Earth that causes the plates to move?
Convection
Why do some stars appear brighter than others from Earth?
Because of their size and distance. (Appearant Magnitude)
A soccer ball is kicked to the right with 10N and pushed to the left with 4N of force. What is the net force?
6N Right
A student eats a sandwhich and the nutrients move into the bloodstream which two systems are interacting?
Digestive and Circulatory
Why are theories important to scientist?
They explain observations and help predict future events.
What type of plate boundary forms mountains when two continental plates collide?
Convergent
The west coastof the United States experiences many earthquakes because of movement along what type of plate boundary?
Transformative (Sliding past each other)
Name 4 signs that a chemical change has occured.
Color change, gas (bubbles), temperature change, light produced
Organize the following from smallest the largest,
Organism
Organ System
Cell
Organ Tissue
Cell, Tissue, Organ, Organ System, Organism
What is 1 benefit and 1 limitaion of using a model?
Answers may vary.
True
An astronaut has a mass of 70 kilograms on Earth what happens to the austronauts mass and weight on the Moon?
The mass will stay the same and the weight will increase.
What determines the identity of an element?
Atomic Number (Number of Protons)
What is the probabilty of an offspring being short. Short is the recessive gene.
Tt X Tt
25%
A scientist measures how temperature affects how fast sugar dissolves in water. Identify the independent and dependent variables.
Independent = temperature; Dependent = dissolving rate/time
Why are producers so important in a food web?
They provide energy for every part of the food web.