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Mid term Science
Science mid term
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the difference between weather and climate? | Climate is a long period of time and weather is a day to day occurrence |
| What science is earth science made up of? | Geology, meteorology, climatology, oceanography, and environmental science |
| What is the scientific application and its method? | The method is making hypothesis and educated guess. |
| What are the four major spheres of the earth? | lithosphere is land, hydrosphere is water, biosphere is living things and atmosphere is air. |
| What are the main layers of the earth? | crust mantle and core |
| What are rocks and minerals? | A mineral is an organic element or compound having chemical composition and a rock is made up of minerals. |
| What are the characteristics of a mineral? | Naturally occuring, inorganic, solid, chemical composition, crystalline structure. |
| What are some properties of minerals? | Color, hardness, cleavage, crystal form, chemical composition. |
| What are some renewable and nonrenewable resources? | nonrenewable sources are oil, natural gas, and coal. Renewable sources are water, solar energy, and wind energy. |
| What is a protons charge? | It is positive |
| What is a neutrons charge? | It is neutral |
| What is a electrons charge? | It is negative. |
| What are the most common elements on earth? | Oxygen, nitrogen, aluminum. |
| What are the basic parts of the rock cycle? | Melting, cooling, eruding, compacting, and deforming. |
| What are the three types of rocks? | Sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous. |
| How are sedimentary rocks made? | They are buried deeply, they are compacted, cemented and then formed. |
| How are metamorphic rocks made? | They start out as some other type of rock, they are then put into high heat and high pressure and then they change |
| How are igneous rocks made? | When a hot molten rock solidifies and crystallizes. |
| What is weathering? | Weathering is the process of wearing or being worn by long exposure to the atmosphere. |
| What are some type of weathering? | Physical, chemical, and biological. |
| What are rates of weathering dependent on? | Rainfall, hot and wet, or dry and cool. |
| What are some types of soil? | Sandy, clay, silt, peat, chalk, and loam. |
| What are the textures of some soils? | Sandy is light warm and dry. Clay is heavy. Silt is light and moist. Peat is moist. Chalk is light and heavy. Loam is all textures combined. |
| What is the best type of soil for growing? | Sand, silt and clay. |
| How do you control soil erosion and mass wasting? | Retaining walls, steep slopes, and barriers. |
| What is mass wasting? | The movement of rock and soil down a slope under the influence of gravity. |
| Types of mass wasting? | Rotational and transitional, flows and creeps. |
| What are the major components of the atmosphere? | Nitrogen, oxygen, argon, water vapor and carbon dioxide. |
| What are earths atmosphere layers? | exosphere, thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, and troposphere. |
| Why does the atmosphere pressure and temperature both increase and decrease with height? | because of absorption and radiation from earths surface. aka green house gases. |
| What is ozone? | A gas that is composed of three oxygen atoms that are below the sun. |
| Why is ozone important | It protects us from the earths harmful rays. |
| What causes the seasons? | |
| Whats the difference between a solstice and an equinox? | |
| What is the process in which water changes forms? | |
| Why does water require energy and give off energy |
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