Earth Science
What is Paleontology the stud of?
The study of fossils
What is the cleanest burning of all the fossil fuels?
a. oil
b. natural gas
c. methane
Natural Gas
What are the 2 of the 3 branches of science in middle school?
Physical, Life, Earth
Is liquid to a gas absorbs or releases heat?
Absorbs
What are the 3 ways heat is transferred?
Conduction, Convection, Radiation
Earth science relate to astronomy (True or False)
False
What produces the gasoline we put in our cars?
Oil
if the mass of something goes up without a change in volume...what happens to density?
goes up
What is gas to a liquid is called?
condensation
What type of heat transfer is a curling iron?
Conduction
Geology relates to?
Earth's Rocks
What uses the energy of the sun to produce electricity?
Solar
the smallest unit that is considered to be alive
cell
What is solid to a liquid called?
Melting
A fire produces what type of heat transfer?
Radiation
In general the climate of the United state is two types...name one type of US climate.
a climate is based on latitude...like polar.
temperate and tropical
What is a renewable energy that uses heat energy that is found inside of the earth?
Geothermal
One of the points of the cell theory
all living things cells
cells are smallest life
all cells come from other cells
Sublimation is part of the water cycle?
True or False
false
The transfer of energy through electromagnetic waves.
Radiation
Why is climate different near the ocean
Water takes longer to change temp than inland
What type of rock would you find fossils in
a. metamorphic
b. igneous
c. sedimentary
sedimentary
name the hierarchy of life beginning with cells.
Cells make up______ and then ______make up______, and so on.
cells to tissue, tissue to organs, organs to organ systems, organ systems to organisms
What type of air is cold air...dry or moist, what does cold air do...rise or sink?
dry and sinks
Use a pot of boiling water on a gas stove to explain all three types of heat transfer
convection = boiling
conduction = fire touching pot
radiation = flame heating the stuff