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2012 Final review for semester 1

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What is a system of knowledge and the methods   science  
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All matter is made up of what?   Atoms  
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What is the order of the scientific method?   Make observations about a problem. Create hypothesis. Test the hypothesis in an experiment. Record and analyze the data. Accept or reject hypthesis. Make a conclusion.  
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Observations   Collecting facts using senses  
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A pattern found in nature   Scientific law  
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Scientific theory   collection of data that points to an answer, never proven  
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#1 Safety rule   follow directions  
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Metric conversions   1cm=10mm 1m=100cm 1km=1000m 1L=1000ml 1kg=1000g  
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What is precision?   getting a measurement consistently for multiple trials, finding the number with most significant figures  
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Plates   made up of crust and lithosphere  
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All the world was once a giant supercontinent that broke up and drifted apart.   theory of continental drift  
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Mid-ocean ridges   Form at divergent boundaries underwater, new sea floor forms here.  
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Subduction zones   Form at convergent boundaries, create ocean trenches, old crust recycled here.  
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Tranform boundaries   move past one another, no vertical movment, San Andreas fault is found here.  
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Faults   breaks in the rock  
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Atmosphere of the Earth   Creates a blanket like effect on the Earth, traps reradiated heat from the surface  
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Global winds   Westerlies, Easterlies, trade winds  
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Cold fronts and storms   Cold air moves under warm air causing warm air to rise.  
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A pattern of weather over many years   climate  
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Caused by C02 increase, and burning of fossil fuels.   global warming  
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Sun centerned solar system theory   heliocentric  
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Earth appears to be at the center due to movement of stellar objects around the Earth   geocentric  
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How was the moon formed?   after a large collision with another body, the Earth was encircled by pieces of its own mantle and pieces of the large object that collided with it.  
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How does gravity affect the Earth?   ocean tides, causes weight  
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Four terrestrial planets   Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars  
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Four Jovian Planets   Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus  
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Why is Pluto no longer a planet?   Too small, not gravitationally dominant, other objects would be planets if it was.  
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Our Sun   Formed from gas nebula, fusing hydrogen, stable due to equilibrium of outward and inward forces  
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What do light years measure?   long distances between stars  
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Star classification   color, size, and absolute brightness  
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What is apparent brightness of a star?   how bright it seems from Earth  
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Adult stars   Main-sequence  
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Low mass stars versus high mass stars   low mass turn into white dwarfs, high mass turn into supernovae  
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Hurricane growth   warm water makes the air above it rise and new air replaces it as it rises.  
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The further an object away is from Earth   the faster its moving  
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Objects moving away appear to be   red shifted  
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Big bang theory explains   origin of the universe, evidenced by red shift and cosimic radiation  
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Motion of the orbit of a planet   ellipse  
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Orbits are maintained by   inertia and gravity  
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HR Digram   cool-dim (bottom right) hot-dim (bottom left) hot-bright (top left) cool-bright (top right)  
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Study of the Earth's composition and structure   geology  
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Three main layers of the Earth   crust, mantle, core  
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Natural inorganic substance   mineral  
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Three types of rock and how they form   metamorphic-heat and pressure sedimentary-eroision and then cementation and compaction igneous-melting and cooling  
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Graduated cylinder   measure volumes of liquids precisely  
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SI UNITS   mass-grams volume-Liters length-meters force-Newtons  
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How does something maintain its orbit?   gravity and inertia, with a velocity that allows it to move fast enough to work against the pull of the body its orbiting  
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Jupiter   Largest planet,  
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Divergent boundaries   Plates move apart, rift valleys, mid ocean ridges  
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Convergent boundaries   Plates move together, ocean trenches and mountains  
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As objects become further apart   the gravitational attraction decreases  
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Variable that is changed at the beginning of the experiment   manipulated variable  
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Variable that responds to the manipulated variable   responding variable  
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Accuracy   close to a known value  
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