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100
This force causes a ship's iron anchor to sink to the ocean floor when it is released overboard.
What is gravity
100
A fundamental substance that cannot be broken into simpler substances by chemical or physical processes.
What is an element?
100
An individual living thing, such as a plant, animal, fungus, bacterium, or protist.
What is an organism?
100
The Moon orbits Earth at a speed of approximately one kilometer per second. The Moon is kept in orbit by which of the following? A. gravity B. lunar phases C. magnetism D. ocean tides
A
100
An engineer is analyzing which areas in a city might become flooded if there are heavy rains. Which of the following maps is best to use for this analysis? A.a map showing the routes of city buses B.a map showing the locations of streets C.a map showing the locations of houses D.a map showing the elevations of ground surfaces
D-Topographical Map
200
Change of velocity per unit of time.
What is acceleration?
200
A solution with a large amount of solute dissolved in a small amount of solvent.
What is "concentrated?"
200
The process by which plants, and some protists and bacteria use light energy, carbon dioxide, and water to make sugar.
What is photosynthesis?
200
The breaking apart of rocks by physical or chemical methods.
What is weathering?
200
Earth's crust and rigid upper mantle are broken into enormous slabs called tectonic plates that interact at plate boundaries. The three types of plate boundaries are transform, divergent, and convergent. a. Describe the plate movements at two of these boundaries. b. Give one example of a formation created at each of the boundaries that you described in part a.
transform/earthquake divergent/valley convergent/volcano
300
The theoretical constant speed at which an object would have to travel in order to go a given distance in a given period of time. Total distance divided by total time.
What is average speed?
300
Reduced in volume as a result of applied pressure.
What is "compressed?"
300
Which kingdom would contain the following: ....cells are organisms called bacteria
Protista
300
A geological principle states that layers of sedimentary rocks are formed on top of layers. Which layer is the oldest and what is contained in those layers?
Oldest - bottom - fossils
300
The imaginary circle around Earth or a celestial object that is everywhere the same distance from the poles. Location with most direct sunlight.
What is the equator?
400
mass divided by volume =
What is density.
400
A process during which starting substances (reactants) change into new substances (products) with different arrangements of atoms.
What is a chemical reaction?
400
A young plant in a dormant or resting stage, capable of growing into an adult plant.
What is a seed?
400
The transformation of rocks from one type to another by melting, weathering, erosion, deposition, heat, pressure, or deformation.
What is the rock cycle?
400
The wearing away and transport of soil and rock by weathering, mass wasting, and the action of water, wind, and ice.
What is erosion?
500
The amount of matter in an object, measured in grams (milligrams, kilograms, anything with grams at the end).
What is mass.
500
Not capable of being dissolved.
What is insoluble
500
A semirigid structure that surrounds cells of plants, fungi, and bacteria. Does not exist in animal cells.
What is a cell wall?
500
A nearly level area that has been uplifted.
What is a plateau?
500
A very large cluster of stars (tens of millions to trillions of stars), bound together by gravity.
What is a galaxy?