What is our state and nation's top source of electricity production?
100
A prejudice in favor or against one thing, person or group.
What is a bias?
100
The chemical formula for sulphur
What is SO2?
100
The amount of life that a certain area of land can support.
What is carrying capacity?
200
Movement of chemicals between living and nonliving things.
What is the Biogeochemical cycle?
200
It is energy from the earth that is used to heat, cool and produce electricity for whole cities, towns or countries
What is large-scale geothermal energy?
200
Making an estimation inside data based on data trends
What is interpolation?
200
A group of atoms bonded together
What is a molecule?
200
The ability to do work
What is energy?
300
Provides something to breathe, allows life to exist, protects from solar radiation, keeps the surface warm, prevents temperature extremes?
What is the purpose of the atmosphere?
300
Education, adequate food and water, resources available, and economy.
What variables can help identify a population's standard of living?
300
CO2+H2O+Light Energy->(In the presence of chlorophyll) C6H12)6+602
What is the formula for Photosynthesis?
300
Continental and Oceanic
What are the two types of earth crust?
300
Scientists use curiosity and creativity to discover new things. They collaborate with other scientists. They use the process of science to research and learn new things. When they produce a thought that isn't correct it still contributes to the ever-changing science world.
What is The nature of scientists?
400
1. Energy Resources are harvested from the Earth
2. Fuels are burned to heat water
3. Hot water produces steam
4. propeller-like blades turn quickly inside a turbine
5. magnets wrapped with coils of wire are spun inside of a generator
6. Generator turns mechanical energy into electricity
7. Electrical energy goes through transformers to house
8. Electrical energy enters breaker box
9. Electrical energy is distributed to sockets and outlets.
What is the process of a power plant?
400
Cracks and fissures in the earth along plate boundaries allow heat to go through more easily so in those areas there is much more geothermal energy.
Why do places along plate boundaries have better access to geothermal energy?
400
If tree's leaves turn colors in the fall, then it must have something to do with the weather in that season.
What is an example of a testable hypothesis?
400
The Amount of earth needed to support someone in a certain country/culture.
What is an ecological footprint?
400
The condition in which human needs are met in such a way that a human population can survive indefinitely. There is 0 population growth.
What is sustainability?
500
It has grown exponentially because of vaccines and the death rate has gone down.
How has our population changed over time?
500
-Domesticated plants and animals
-carrying capacity went up
-Slashed/burned forests
-Human population grew rapidly
What are some affects of agriculturalists?
500
The chemical formula for carbon dioxide
What is CO2?
500
A resource that can be replenished in a lifetime.
What is a renewable resource?
500
Energy Flow and mass Cycling
What are the two things that change the earth naturally?