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Which of the following
is the chemical symbol
for the element
hydrogen?
H or He
Answer
Elements/Compounds
100
H
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What are the chemical
symbols for the 2
elements found in Earth’s
core?
Answer
Elements/Comp
ounds 200
Fe (iron) & Ni
(nickel)
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What are the chemical
symbols for carbon,
hydrogen, oxygen, and
nitrogen?
Answer
Elements/Co
mpounds
300
C for carbon,
H for
hydrogen, O
for oxygen,
N for
nitrogen
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Of the following, which one
is the chemical symbol for
Calcium? C or Cl or Ca
Answer
Elements/C
ompounds
400
Ca is
chemical
symbol for
Calcium
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Magnesium (Mg) is found
in the Earth’s crust, while
Iron (Fe) sinks to its core.
What is the reason for
this?
Answer
Elements/Comp
ounds 500
Iron (Fe) is denser
than Magnesium
Mg), so it sinks
down to core.
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Mrs. Desher wants to test how her roses grow when given
different brands of fertilizer. She placed 4 groups of 5 rose
bushes on her patio; giving them the same amount of
light, water, & the same amount of fertilizer. Group A
received Walmart’s brand of fertilizer. Group B received
Miracle Grow. Group C received Edmund’s fertilizer. Group
D did not receive fertilizer. Mrs. Desher measured the
height of the plants after 1 month.
What is the independent variable for her test?
Answer
Process Skills
100
Fertilizer
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Mrs. Desher wants to test how her roses grow when given
different brands of fertilizer. She placed 4 groups of 5 rose
bushes on her patio; giving them the same amount of
light, water, & the same amount of fertilizer. Group A
received Walmart’s brand of fertilizer. Group B received
Miracle Grow. Group C received Edmund’s fertilizer. Group
D did not receive fertilizer. Mrs. Desher measured the
height of the plants after 1 month.
What is the dependent variable for her test?
Answer
Process Skills 200
Height of plant
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Mrs. Desher wants to test how her roses grow when
given different brands of fertilizer. She placed 4
groups of 5 rose bushes on her patio; giving them
the same amount of light, water, & the same
amount of fertilizer. Group A received Walmart’s
brand of fertilizer. Group B received Miracle Grow.
Group C received Edmund’s fertilizer. Group D did
not receive fertilizer. Mrs. Desher measured the
height of the plants after 1 month.
What would be a good hypothesis for her
experiment?
Answer
Process Skills
300
If Edmund’s brand of
fertilizer is used, then
the rose bushes will
grow the tallest.
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Mrs. Desher wants to test how her roses grow when given
different brands of fertilizer. She placed 4 groups of 5 rose
bushes on her patio; giving them the same amount of
light, water, & the same amount of fertilizer. Group A
received Walmart’s brand of fertilizer. Group B received
Miracle Grow. Group C received Edmund’s fertilizer. Group
D did not receive fertilizer. Mrs. Desher measured the
height of the plants after 1 month.
What are constants in this experiments?
Answer
Process Skills 400
Same amount of
light, water, &
fertilizer.
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Mrs. Desher wants to test how her roses grow when given
different brands of fertilizer. She placed 4 groups of 5 rose
bushes on her patio; giving them the same amount of light,
water, & the same amount of fertilizer. Group A received
Walmart’s brand of fertilizer. Group B received Miracle Grow.
Group C received Edmund’s fertilizer. Group D did not
receive fertilizer. Mrs. Desher measured the height of the
plants after 1 month.
What is the control for this experiment?
Answer
Process Skills 500
Group D (did not
receive the
independent variable
of fertilizer)
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What is the definition of
a renewable energy
resource?
Answer
Energy Resources 100
A resource that can
be replenished in a
short amount of
time.
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Is wind energy a renewable
or nonrenewable
resource?
Answer
Energy Resources 200
Renewable
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What is an advantage to
using the nonrenewable
energy resource of fossil
fuels?
Answer
Energy Resources 300
Fossil fuels are
easy to get & easy
to transport.
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Of the following energy
resources, which ones
produce the least amount
of pollution-fossil fuels,
solar, wind, natural gas?
Answer
Energy Resources 400
Solar and wind.
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List the 3 energy
resources that we call
“fossil fuels”.
Answer
Energy Resources 500
Coal, oil, natural
gas.
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Name
each
of the
plates.
Answer
Plate Tectonics 100
L-No. American Plate
M-Pacific Plate
N-So. American Plate
O-African Plate
P-Eurasian Plate
Q-Indo-Australian Plate
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What geological event occurs at the boundary between the
No. American Plate & the Pacific Plate?
Answer
Plate Tectonics 200
Earthquake
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What
geological
event occurs
between the
Nazca Plate &
the So.
American
Plate?
Answer
Plate Tectonics 300
Volcanic
mountains due to
subduction zone.
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What geological
event occurs when
oceanic crust
diverges from
oceanic crust?
Answer
Plate Tectonics 400
Ocean ridges
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What is happening in the
asthenosphere (mantle)
that drives the process of
plate tectonics?
Answer
Plate Tectonics
500
Convection currents
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What process must
sediments undergo to
become sedimentary
rock?
Answer
Rocks 100
Compaction &
cementation
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What processes do all rocks
go through, if they are on
the surface of the Earth?
Answer
Rocks 200
Weathering,
erosion, &
deposition
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All rocks can be
changed into other
types of rocks. What
processes make this
possible?
Answer
Rocks 300
Heat & pressure
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Rocks that go through
cooling & crystallization
are called-
Answer
Rocks 400
Igneous rocks.
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What
process/proc
esses will
complete the
diagram to
the left?
Answer
Rocks 500
Weathering &
erosion
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