Round the following number to the nearest tenth: 1.2242
What is 1.2
100
What is the horizontal axis called?
What is the x-axis.
100
Define the word, Mass.
What is how much something weighs, how heavy something is.
100
What is the equation for gradient?
What is (change in field value)/(distance)
100
What is the equation for rate of change?
What is (change in value)/(time)
200
Round the following number to the nearest thousandth: 1.93745
What is 1.937
200
Why is it important to label both axis?
What is so when others are reading the graphs, they know what information and data is being compared and shown.
200
Define the word, Gravity.
What is a force that attracts two objects together
200
Describe what is a topographic profile.
What is the side view of a mountain or land.
200
What is the specific heat for liquid water?
What is 4.18J/goC
300
What is the density of water?
What is 1.0g/cm^3
300
Describe the difference between a line graph and a bar graph.
What is a line graph has plotted points based in the y value that are connected. A bar graph shows bars based on the y value.
300
Define the word, Topographic Map.
What is a map showing the elevation (height) of land.
300
What are the 3 steps when drawing a contour line?
What is find all points of the same value, fill in the gaps, and connect the dots.
300
What is the percent by volume of Oxygen in our hydrosphere?
What is 33.0%
400
Why does cold air sink, and hot air float?
What is cold air has a higher density than hot air.
400
Describe how intervals are used when making graphs.
What is when labeling the axis, the numbers should increase by the amount (0,5,10,15...)
400
Define the word, Density.
What is mass/volume. How compact something is.
400
Calculate the gradient of A to B. The elevation of A is 100ft, the elevation of B is 75ft. The two points are 50 miles apart.
What is 0.5ft/miles
400
What is the density of Neptune?
What is 1.8g/cm^3
500
A can of soup has a density of 3.1g/cm^3, if placed in a tub of water, would it sink or float? Explain
What is it will sink because it is more dense than water, which has a density of 1g/cm^3
500
Explain why scientists use graphs to show data.
What is it visually shows data, results, patterns and trends. Instead of reading words and numbers, graphs are like picture that display the same information.
500
Define the following words: Prime Meridian and Latitude.
What is Prime Meridian is the 0 degree longitude line that separate East from West. Latitude are the coordinate lines running East to West that measure North and South.
500
Name all 4 rules of contour lines.
What is they are curvy, they connect equal values of elevation, they are always closed, and they never cross/overlap.
500
What symbol signifies "dominant form of breakage"?