Metric System
1 m to cm
100 cm
Wear these to protect your eyes in lab.
Goggles
This sphere contains all of Earth's living things.
Biosphere
Where is most of Earth's freshwater stored?
Glaciers and ice caps
What is the thin, outer layer of the Earth?
the crust
2.5 km to m
2500 m
The first step of the scientific method is?
Ask a question
The Sun and this force drive the water cycle.
Gravity
Water that soaks into the ground and fills spaces in soil and between rocks is called?
Groundwater
Flat, low-lying land along a coast is this type of plain.
Coastal plain
1000 mL to L
1 L
If you spill something, the first thing you should do is?
Tell Ms. Horace
Earth's core provides heat for which cycle, and what step of that cycle?
Rock; to melt the rock and bring it back up the surface as magma
The process of changing water vapor back to liquid is called?
condensation
Sand carried by the wind and deposited into piles forms these.
Dunes
35 g to kg
.035 kg
What is the variable that changes on purpose?
independent variable
A tsunami destroys the land and homes of people. What spheres are interacting?
Hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere
The cryosphere is considered part of the hydrosphere because...
It contains frozen water such as glaciers.
A mountain range forming by plates colliding is an example of this.
Constructive force
.003 km to mm
3000 mm
A student tests how different amounts of fertilizer affect plant growth. The factor that is measured—how tall the plants grow—is called this.
dependent variable
When melting ice decreases Earth’s reflectivity, causing more heat to be absorbed and more ice to melt, this type of feedback is occurring.
positive feedback
3%
Volcanoes build new rock but destroy land. What does this mean about volcanoes?
They are both constructive and destructive.