GJHS Science 7 S1
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| Does this demonstrate appropriate lab safety? Sylvia broke a thermometer and quickly reported it to the teacher. Yes or No? | show 🗑
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| Which is considered an observation: A) Making a conclusion based on information gathered or B) Using your senses to gather data | show 🗑
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| Which is considered an inference: A) Making a conclusion based on information gathered or B) Using your senses to gather data | show 🗑
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| Inference, Observation, or Opinion: A student found the volume of water in a cylinder to be 50ml. This information would be considered what? | show 🗑
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| If you took an object to the moon, which characteristic would change: Mass Volume Weight Density | show 🗑
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| show | Hypothesis
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| Elements are made up of atoms. True or False? | show 🗑
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| How would you find the volume of a rectangular piece of aluminum? | show 🗑
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| Hypotheses and models are made by scientists to explain how and why things happen. These models and hypotheses are A) always accepted by all scientists because they read the same research or B) are changed if necessary as new data is collected. | show 🗑
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| If a scientific investigation were designed to compare the freezing temperature of water containing different amounts of salt, what would you need to control? | show 🗑
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| show | Triple Beam Balance
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| show | Graduated Cylinder
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| What two pieces of equipment would you need to use in order to calculate the density of an oddly-shaped piece of clay? | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| The Earth's crust and mantle have A) the same thickness, or B) different densities | show 🗑
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| When we observed a pencil in a cup of water, we noticed that it looked bent or broken because of the refraction of light energy. Inside our planet this will happen as seismic energy waves do what? | show 🗑
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| Which of these occurred after Alfred Wegner died as a result of scientific technology: Continent puzzle appearance or Seafloor spreading? | show 🗑
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| show | It's less dense
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| show | It explained how the pieces of oceanic and continental crust could move
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| What happens as you go deeper inside the Earth's interior? | show 🗑
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| According to theory of plate tectonics, India converged and became part of Asia. This resulted in what? | show 🗑
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| show | Stretching and Faulting of the North American plate
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| New land added to Earth's surface at a boundary between what? | show 🗑
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| Our planet is like a giant magnet with a north and south pole. What causes this magnetic field? | show 🗑
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| One important difference between the continental crust and oceanic crust is what? | show 🗑
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| Earth's crust can sink and be consumed or recycled at which of these tectonic plate boundary locations? | show 🗑
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| Scientists have made inferences about Earth's inside structure from observations of what? | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | B) Similar fossils of animals and plants are found on different continents
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| Which tectonic plate boundary is generally associated with earthquakes? | show 🗑
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| When Earth layers break from intense tension and pressure it is called what? | show 🗑
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| The Richter Scale measures earthquake magnitude. How much stronger is a 6.0 than a 5.0? | show 🗑
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| What affects the speed of a seismic wave? | show 🗑
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| Nevada and the Great Basin and Range region are known for having many of these types of faults? | show 🗑
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| show | Hot Spot
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| The "Ring of Fire" is a region along the rim of the Pacific Ocean. How did this region get its name? | show 🗑
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| show | Line
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| Which type of earth force best describes an earthquake? | show 🗑
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| When geologists study the geosphere they consider volcanoes to be a ________ force, because it makes new crust. | show 🗑
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| Which type of earth force would you consider land erosion to be? | show 🗑
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| Nevada is part of the Great Basin and Range region known for its ________. | show 🗑
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| This is NOT a warning sign for a volcanic eruption. | show 🗑
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| show | Iron
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| Which of the following landforms in Nevada resulted from erosion? | show 🗑
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| show | P (primary) Waves
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| Explain the meaning of the Rock Cycle. | show 🗑
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| What rock evidence do we have to show that Las Vegas was once under the ocean? | show 🗑
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| show | Igneous
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| Shale and sandstone are types of sedimentary rocks. You can conclude that these rocks formed by what forces? | show 🗑
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| New crust is formed on our planet at the divergent boundaries and over hot spots and riffs.What type of rock is formed in these places? | show 🗑
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| show | 4.6 Billion
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| show | 4000 years old
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| How can a sedimentary rock change to an igneous rock? | show 🗑
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| The three rock families are classified on the basis of what? | show 🗑
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| True or False: A rock is a mixture of minerals and other substances. | show 🗑
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| The least reliable property for mineral identification is this. | show 🗑
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| show | Trilobites
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| Which idea is used to estimate relative ages of rock layers? | show 🗑
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| How much original parent material remains after three half lives? | show 🗑
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| show | Quick burial by fine sediment
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| Paleontologists have never found fossils in what kind of rock? | show 🗑
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| show | Lifeforms and events in Earth's history
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| The study of rock records suggest that the period that humans existed is very _______ compared to geologic time. | show 🗑
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| Which process begins soil formation? | show 🗑
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| How is weathering different from erosion? | show 🗑
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| show | Types of rocks and climate
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| show | Humus
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| If a gardener notices that water has not drained well through her soil, she would probably add this. | show 🗑
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| Which soil layer is richest in humus and nutrients? | show 🗑
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| Soils can differ in this. | show 🗑
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| Nitrogen is an important element but unfortunately plants and animals can not take Nitrogen directly into their cells. It must be "fixed" by this? | show 🗑
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| show | Leaching
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| show | Solar Rays
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| show | More than 7 Billion
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| The more people on the planet, the _____ natural resources are needed. | show 🗑
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| show | It takes a long time to reform
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| One benefit of using renewable energy resources would be this? | show 🗑
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| What is the benefit of using solar, wind, and geothermal energy? | show 🗑
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| show | A barrel of Oil
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| show | 93.2%
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| The Greenhouse Effect is a term used to describe the heating of the atmosphere from such gases as Carbon Dioxide, Methane, and Water Vapor. What would increase heat in the atmosphere? | show 🗑
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| show | Silicon and Oxygen
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