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| A person standing where the Moon's penumbra touches Earth will see | show 🗑
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| A person traveling westward across the International Date Line gains a day. | show 🗑
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| According to the plate tectonics theory, sea-floor spreading occurs at a | show 🗑
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| show | all of the above
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| As viewed from space above the North Pole, Earth rotates clockwise. | show 🗑
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| Basalt and granite are examples of metamorphic rocks. | show 🗑
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| During which month of the year does Earth receive the greatest average energy from the Sun? | show 🗑
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| show | 2,000 years
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| Evidence that Earth is rotating is provided by | show 🗑
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| show | in the orientation of iron minerals that cooled in once molten rock
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| Fine-grained igneous rocks formed as magma cooled slowly. | show 🗑
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| For the last 3 billion years the surface of the Moon has been | show 🗑
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| show | seismic waves travel at different speeds through these layers
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| show | set it to 3:00PM
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| Igneous rocks that formed by cooling slowly from a molten magma will have | show 🗑
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| show | false
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| In the time 9:00 AM, the "AM" means | show 🗑
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| show | true
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| Long, high and continuous mountain ranges run through the middle of the oceans. | show 🗑
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| show | true
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| Most of Earth's mass is contained in the | show 🗑
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| Most rocks are composed of minerals that are | show 🗑
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| show | in the quarter phase
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| North of the Tropic of Cancer, the Sun appears directly overhead at noon | show 🗑
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| show | false
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| show | true
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| Sandstone is sand that has been consolidated into a solid mass | show 🗑
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| Sedimentary rocks were formed from particles or dissolved materials from older rocks | show 🗑
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| Seismic waves show a sudden increase at the Mohorovicic discontinuity because the | show 🗑
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| The Himalayan Mountains were formed as a result of | show 🗑
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| The Julian calendar adjusted for the fact that Earth's year was not exactly 365 days by adding a day every fourth year. | show 🗑
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| The San Andreas Fault is the site of a | show 🗑
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| The ancient Greeks believed that the shape of Earth was | show 🗑
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| The asthenosphere is | show 🗑
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| The average temperature of Earth is slightly lower in January because then Earth is at its greatest distance from the Sun. | show 🗑
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| The axis of Earth's rotation will not always point towards Polaris due to precession. | show 🗑
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| show | the tilt of the Earth's axis
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| show | true
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| The formation of which of the following rocks helps remove CO2 from the atmosphere? | show 🗑
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| show | igneous
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| The path of a plane flying due north from a spot on the equator would appear to | show 🗑
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| show | true
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| The slow wobble of Earth's axis is called | show 🗑
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| show | particle size
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| show | the Moon's periods of rotation and revolution are the same
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| Weathered sediments are pressed and cemented to form | show 🗑
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| show | the core is mostly made of iron
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| Which of the following statements about seismic waves is not true? | show 🗑
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| A comet's tail always trails behind it throughout its journey through the solar system | show 🗑
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| A dwarf planet of the solar system is | show 🗑
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| A light-year is a measure of astronomical distance. | show 🗑
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| show | true
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| show | 13.7 billion years
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| Compared to a star like the Sun, a blue-white star | show 🗑
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| Earth moves most rapidly in its orbit around | show 🗑
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| Earth rotates | show 🗑
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| show | billions of years ago from elements created in previously existing stars
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| show | your latitude
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| If the density of the universe is less than a critical value, then | show 🗑
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| It is impossible to theorize about the formation of the solar system because no other planetary systems can be observed | show 🗑
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| show | false
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| show | true
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| show | the sun
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| Most of the stars plotted on a H-R diagram are | show 🗑
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| Nuclear fusion reactions occur in what part of a star? | show 🗑
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| show | earth
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| Our model of the surface features of Venus was obtained by | show 🗑
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| show | true
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| show | false
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| Remnants of asteroids or comets that survive the trip through Earth's atmosphere to strike the surface are called | show 🗑
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| show | england
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| show | none of the above
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| The Milky Way galaxy is | show 🗑
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| show | true
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| The absolute magnitude considers the brightness of a star when at a standard distance | show 🗑
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| The asteroids forming a belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter were prevented from forming a planet by the strong gravitational field of Jupiter. | show 🗑
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| The brightest object in the sky after the Sun and Moon is | show 🗑
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| show | true
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| show | true
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| show | all of the above
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| show | true
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| show | a white dwarf
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| The expected life span of a star the size of the Sun is | show 🗑
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| show | false
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| The polar ice caps of Mars is believed to consist mostly of | show 🗑
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| show | mercury
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| show | its atmosphere traps much of the incoming solar energy
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| show | true
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| Venus, the sister planet to Earth, has an atmosphere whose composition is similar to that of Earth. | show 🗑
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| When a massive star exhausts its supply of hydrogen fuel, it becomes a supernova | show 🗑
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| show | mass
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| show | celestial meridian
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| show | it is much too cold for liquid to exist
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| show | blue
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| show | most comets have elliptical orbits with periods around one hundred years
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| Which of the following statements about the length of a planet's day is true? | show 🗑
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| Which planets have no moons? | show 🗑
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| Which type of star has the shortest life span? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following object does not emit light? | show 🗑
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| show | you are between the sun in one direction and falling rain in the other direction
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| show | a dark region in produced
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| When an electric stove element is hot enough, it gives off a dull red glow. When it cools to the point that it no longer glows, it will | show 🗑
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| show | true
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| show | all of these are true
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| show | as having both eave and particle behavior
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| show | true
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| show | blue light has short wavelengths and is scattered most
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| The sky appears blue due to the light reflected from the oceans | show 🗑
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| The radiation from the Sun is most intense near the yellow-green wavelength. | show 🗑
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| show | the energy of the ejected electrons did not depend upon the intensity
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| show | virtual
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| show | true
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| The Sun appears reddish as it sets because | show 🗑
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| show | only in one plane
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| show | appeared to come in multiples of certain fixed amounts
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| show | false
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| show | false
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| show | wave model of light
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| Green grass absorbs | show 🗑
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| Glare is light that tends to be polarized predominantly in the horizontal plane | show 🗑
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| show | virtual image
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| A prism separates the colors of sunlight into a spectrum because | show 🗑
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| A luminous object is an object that | show 🗑
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| show | false
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| show | on a typical day in the library
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| A neutral atom gains one or more electrons and is now called a | show 🗑
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| A ratio of joules per coulomb (J/C) is also know of as a(an) | show 🗑
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| show | pulses of increased and decreased air pressure
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| show | higher
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| An electric current is measured in units of | show 🗑
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| An object becomes positively charged by gaining protons. | show 🗑
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| Charge moving through a wire produces a magnetic field around the wire. | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is true about waves A and B? | show 🗑
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| show | a constant current would flow through the wire
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| show | on a warmer day
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| show | is a magnetic south pole
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| If v = λf, then how are λ and f related? | show 🗑
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| If you double the distance between two charged objects, you reduce the electrical force by a factor of four | show 🗑
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| If you multiply amps × volts the answer will be in units of | show 🗑
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| If you were to mechanically rotate the armature in an electric motor | show 🗑
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| show | have a reverse north pole direction
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| Sound waves in air | show 🗑
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| show | true
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| The bending of a wave at the boundary between two media is called | show 🗑
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| show | amplitude
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| show | false
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| The frequency of a vibration is measured in units of | show 🗑
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| show | the higher the pitch
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| show | all of these are true
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| show | 20 to 20,000 Hz
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| The ratio of work done to charge that is moved by a battery is a(an) | show 🗑
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| The resistance of an extension cord varies directly with the length of the cord. | show 🗑
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| The restoring force of a spring is proportional to the displacement of the object at the end | show 🗑
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| show | resistance
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| The strength of a magnetic field around a current-carrying wire varies directly with the | show 🗑
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| The time that is required for a vibrating object to complete one full cycle is called the | show 🗑
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| show | coulomb
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| show | cooler air
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| show | vacuum
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| Transverse mechanical waves can pass through | show 🗑
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| show | alternation of loudness of sound known as beats
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| show | a new sound wave with greater amplitude
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| show | cancellation of the two sound waves
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| Waves that move through air are transverse. | show 🗑
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| A 10 degree temperature change on the Fahrenheit scale would be equivalent to what size change on the Celsius scale? | show 🗑
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| show | four times as much
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| show | vapor
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| A heat engine is designed to | show 🗑
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| A spring-loaded paper clamp exerts a force of 2 N on 10 sheets of paper it is holding tightly together. Is the clamp doing work as it holds the papers together? | show 🗑
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| An abundant but dirty energy source is | show 🗑
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| show | solid
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| Convection best takes place in a | show 🗑
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| show | higher temperature means higher kinetic energy
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| show | second law of thermodynamics
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| In the equation: Q = mc∆t, the c stands for the | show 🗑
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| show | energy of motion
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| Liquid water at 0˚C has to give up energy in order to become ice at 0˚C. | show 🗑
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| Molecules in a solid | show 🗑
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| show | condensation
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| Nearly all of the energy consumed today is provided by petroleum, coal, hydropower and nuclear sources | show 🗑
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| show | vacuum
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| Solids have a greater strength of attraction between its molecules than liquids. | show 🗑
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| show | false
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| show | 37
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| The degrees on the Celsius scale are larger than degrees on the Fahrenheit scale. | show 🗑
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| show | calorie
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| show | first law of thermodynamics
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| The evaporation of water cools the surroundings and the condensation of this vapor | show 🗑
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| show | true
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| show | true
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| The nutritionist's Calorie is really a kilocalorie. | show 🗑
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| The process by which solids vaporize without first becoming a liquid is called | show 🗑
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| show | power
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| The specific heat of copper is roughly three times as great as the specific heat of gold. Which of the following is true? | show 🗑
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| show | conduction
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| show | has a higher specific heat
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| Two students stand poised to leap off a high dive structure into the swimming pool below. Student B is twice as massive as student A. Which of the following is true? | show 🗑
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| show | work against a vertical change of position
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| show | at all times
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| show | radiation
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| show | each second, the bulb converts 60J of electrical energy, to heat and light
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| show | power
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| show | biodiesel
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| show | all of the above
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| show | All would be equal
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| Which temperature scale does not have arbitrarily assigned reference points? | show 🗑
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| show | The mass remains the same, but the weight decreases
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| show | momentum
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| A cannonball is fired straight up at 50 m/s. Neglecting air resistance, when it returns to its starting point, its speed is | show 🗑
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| show | Initial speed
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| A car traveling at 20 mph on a curved exit ramp has a constant velocity. | show 🗑
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| Acceleration occurs when an object undergoes | show 🗑
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| After being released, a ball thrown straight down from a bridge would have an acceleration of | show 🗑
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| An object accelerates when its speed or direction changes. | show 🗑
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| show | all forces on the object are balanced
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| For a constant mass the acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the applied force. | show 🗑
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| From the equation w = mg, it is apparent that weight is equivalent to a(an) | show 🗑
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| show | velocity
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| If a 16 lb bowling ball and a 10 lb bowling ball are dropped from the 5th floor at the same time the heavier ball will reach the ground first. | show 🗑
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| show | acceleration doubles
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| Ignoring air resistance, a falling object will have a speed of 9.8 m/s at the end of 1 s and will fall a distance of | show 🗑
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| show | is constantly increasing
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| Neglecting air resistance, a ball in freefall near Earth's surface will have | show 🗑
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| show | direction
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| show | force
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| show | newton
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| The product of the mass (m) and velocity (v) of an object is known as the | show 🗑
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| The speed calculated from the distance traveled during an entire trip and the elapsed time is a(an) | show 🗑
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| show | inertia
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| show | m/s
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| Which of the following is not a unit of speed? | show 🗑
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| show | all of the above
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| show | region of low pressure
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| A parcel of air that rises undergoes | show 🗑
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| show | a nearly flat rolling plain produced by erosion
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| A psychrometer measures | show 🗑
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| show | cannot return to its original shape when the stress is relieved
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| A stream in its youth exhibits which of the following sets of characteristics? | show 🗑
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| show | a warm air mass advances over a mass of cooler air
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| A wind deposit that often makes productive farmland is | show 🗑
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| An airplane flying at 35,000 feet is above what percent of Earth's atmosphere? | show 🗑
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| Brief periods of showers are usually associated with which cloud type? | show 🗑
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| show | transportation
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| show | produces 100 times as much ground movement
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| show | moraines
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| show | all of the above
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| show | chemical weathering
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| Frost is more likely to form | show 🗑
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| Glaciers form when | show 🗑
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| Hot air rising from the equatorial regions cools and descends to form | show 🗑
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| show | evaporation is greater than precipitation
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| show | stratus
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| show | 76.0 cm high
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| On a clear, calm night, you would expect the air in a valley to be | show 🗑
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| show | be warm and dry
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| People have found the Principle of Uniformity difficult to accept because they | show 🗑
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| Picking up small pieces of smashed rock is called | show 🗑
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| show | rupture or break under stress
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| The Columbia Plateau in Washington, Idaho and Oregon | show 🗑
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| The Sierra Nevada in California is a classic example of | show 🗑
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| The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide is regulated by | show 🗑
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| show | the altitude of the tiny water droplets
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| The greenhouse effect results in warmer temperatures near the surface because | show 🗑
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| show | diverging plate boundaries
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| show | focus
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| The principle components of Earth's atmosphere are nitrogen, oxygen and | show 🗑
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| The red soils of Oklahoma and Georgia are due to the presence of | show 🗑
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| show | all of the above
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| show | measures the effect of low temperature and wind on humans
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| There are greater temperature extremes in North Dakota than in the state of Washington because | show 🗑
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| Ventifacts are | show 🗑
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| show | mechanical and chemical breakup of rocks
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| show |
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| show | plastic strain
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| When water vapor in the atmosphere condenses to liquid water, | show 🗑
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| show | towering cumulus
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| Which of the following is not considered to be a form of precipitation? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following materials is least susceptible to chemical weathering? | show 🗑
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| Which of the mountain-building processes is most responsible for the features of the Rocky Mountains? | show 🗑
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| Which sequence of processes occurs in the correct order? | show 🗑
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| show | air is moving from the outside into behind your eardrum
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| A current that moves parallel to the shore in the surf zone is called a | show 🗑
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| show | neither porous nor permeable
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| show | the land area drained by a stream
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| About what is the average concentration of salts in Earth's oceans? | show 🗑
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| All of the following are features of ocean basins except | show 🗑
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| An object floating on the surface when a waves passes | show 🗑
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| show | roughly 25 times as great
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| show | C
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| show | cool, relatively shallow ocean
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| Dense, high salinity water from the Atlantic Ocean flows into the Mediterranean Sea, making it one of the saltier seas. | show 🗑
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| Of the total water supply, what is the amount that is available for human consumption and agriculture? | show 🗑
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| show | true
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| Surface ocean currents are generally driven by | show 🗑
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| The Gulf of Mexico is a shallow sea of the | show 🗑
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| show | 5,700
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| The characteristics of ocean waves are influenced by | show 🗑
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| show | the Gulf Stream
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| show | glaciers and ice caps
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| show | chlorine
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| show | false
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| The water that evaporates from lakes and streams is fresh, whereas water evaporating from the oceans is salty. | show 🗑
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| The water that runs in permanent streams | show 🗑
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| show | true
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| Which of the following statements about seamounts is false? | show 🗑
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| show | it is the transition between the continent and the deep ocean basins
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| A sound wave that moves through the air is | show 🗑
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| Consider the diagram of two waves in the same medium: up and down | show 🗑
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| Consider the diagram of two waves in the same medium: top of one wave to top of next wave | show 🗑
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| In order to be operational, a complete electric circuit must contain a source of energy, a device that does work, and | show 🗑
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| show | 1 is a (+) and 2 is a (-) charge
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| show | the geographic and magnetic North Poles are not in the same place
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| show | amperage of the current
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| show | cooler air
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| show | a new sound wave with greater amplitude
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| Two out-of-phase sound waves with the same amplitude and frequency arrive at the same place at the same time, resulting in | show 🗑
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| show | destructive interference occurs
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| show | 0.25 Hz
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| A flower pot falls off a window ledge 10 m above the ground. Its kinetic energy as it hits the ground is | show 🗑
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| A pendulum is pulled back to position a, then released. Where is its kinetic energy the maximum? | show 🗑
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| Molecules in a solid | show 🗑
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| More molecules are returning to the liquid state than are leaving the liquid state. This process is called | show 🗑
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| The force exerted when doing work by lifting an object against gravity is measured in units of | show 🗑
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| What are the units for the work is done by a newton of force acting through a meter of distance? | show 🗑
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| When water vapor condenses to a liquid | show 🗑
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| show | geothermal steam
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| show | heat
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| show | geothermal hot water
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| show | 1000
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| show | conjecture
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| show | hypothesis
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| show | conduct a controlled experiment
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| Equations are used to | show 🗑
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| Imagine a 10 g chunk of aluminum (ρ = 2.7 g/cm3) and a 10 g chunk of iron (ρ = 7.9 g/cm3). Which of the following is true? | show 🗑
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| show | collect observations, develop explanations, tests explanations
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| show | is a proportionality constant
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| show | called variables
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| show | data
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| show | property -- referent
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| show | all of the above
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| show | pseudoscience
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| One-half liter of water is the same volume as | show 🗑
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| show | reliable
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| Suppose a cube of Jello is cut into two pieces. What property stays the same comparing the original piece with one of the new pieces? | show 🗑
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| The SI standard unit for mass is the | show 🗑
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| The basic means of acquiring understanding in the sciences is | show 🗑
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| The metric measurement that means one-hundredth of a meter is one | show 🗑
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| The property of volume is a measure of | show 🗑
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| show | model
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| When two variables increase or decrease together in the same ratio they | show 🗑
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| Which measure in the metric system is defined by using an object for a referent? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is not a unit of density? | show 🗑
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| show | weight
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