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What is an aquifer and an aqutard?
Aquifer is an Earth material that allows water to flow through. An aqutard does not.
What is the difference between weather and climate?
weather is the outside conditions now
climate is the weather over a long period of time
Name the planets in order from the sun
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
What is the difference between magma and lava?
magma is hot liquid rock under ground. Lava is hot liquid rock above ground.
any description or measurement gathered by a person’s senses or with instruments.
observation
What is the difference between renewable and non-renewable resource? AND one example of each
renewable can be replenished before used up (sun, wind) Non-renewable cannot (oil)
Describe a cold front and warm front
What do they have in common?
cold air mass replacing warm, warm air mass replacing cold.
they both can cause storms
What are moon phases?
the part of the moon visible from Earth
Theory that the lithospheric plates move
continental drift
the force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth
gravity
What are fossil fuels and how does science think they are formed?
oil, coal, natural gas
ancient sea life that has died, buried and under pressure
Name three types of precipitation.
Rain, snow, sleet, hail
What is the cause of the planets orbiting the sun?
gravity
equator
imaginary line that people have designated to divide Earth into two halves
Describe water cycle (at least 3 steps)
evaporation, condensation, precipitation
theory that extra CO2 from human activities is affecting the global weather
amount of water vapor in the air
humidity
Where is the moon in relation to the Earth during a full moon?
behind it a slight angle above
What are the causes of the lithospheric plates movement?
gravity and convection
define hypothesis
educated guess
What type of rock is formed from lava cooling? type of rock form from magma cooling under pressure? type of rock when sediment is pressed together?
igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary
What causes a tornado?
supercell, wind going different directions at different altitudes, a tube of air forms, warm air rising pushes the tube to be up and down
What is the space object people have landed on and what is the space object that people have sent robots to?
moon
Mars
Name the three plate boundary and how they move
transform slide by
convergent towards each other
divergent move away from each other
axis
imaginary line passing through Earth’s North Pole and South Pole.