SCI 352
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| A lunar eclipse can only occur during which phase of the Moon? | show 🗑
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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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| An apparent solar day is | show 🗑
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| show | false
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| show | false
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| show | january
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| show | new
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| Evidence shows that Earth's magnetic field is diminishing with time and may reverse orientations by the end of the next | show 🗑
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| show | the motion of a pendulum
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| show | in the orientation of iron minerals that cooled in once molten rock
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| show | false
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| For the last 3 billion years the surface of the Moon has been | show 🗑
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| Geologists think that oceanic crust is different from continental crust because | show 🗑
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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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| Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks have undergone little change since Earth formed | show 🗑
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| show | before the meridian
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| show | true
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| show | true
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| Molten rock material from which minerals can crystallize is called magma. | show 🗑
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| show | mantle
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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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| show | never
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| On the Summer Solstice, the Sun rises south of due east, and sets south of due west | show 🗑
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| P-waves travel through both solid and liquid rock, but S-waves cannot travel through liquid | show 🗑
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| show | true
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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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| show | continent-continent plate convergence
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| show | true
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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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| show | a plastic layer in which the lithosphere is imbedded
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| show | false
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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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| The findings from the Apollo space missions to the Moon support the idea that the Moon formed from the impact of Earth with a very large object. | show 🗑
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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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| show | curve to the east
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| The position of a spot on the floor made by a sunbeam traces out a "figure eight" pattern over the course of a year. | show 🗑
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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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| show | sedimentary rocks
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| show | the core is mostly made of iron
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| show | both P-waves and S-waves travel readily through molten rock
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| show | false
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| show | all of the above
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| A light-year is a measure of astronomical distance. | show 🗑
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| A protostar is an accumulation of gases in outer space that will become a star. | show 🗑
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| About how old is the universe? | show 🗑
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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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| show | from west to east
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| show | billions of years ago from elements created in previously existing stars
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| How far Polaris appears above the horizon depends on | show 🗑
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| If the density of the universe is less than a critical value, then | show 🗑
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| show | false
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| show | false
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| More massive stars tend to use up their supply of hydrogen more rapidly. | show 🗑
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| Most of the mass of the solar system is found in | show 🗑
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| show | main sequence stars
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| Nuclear fusion reactions occur in what part of a star? | show 🗑
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| One of the following planets is denser than the others | show 🗑
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| show | radar mapping from the magellan probe
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| Photographs of the surface of Mars provides evidence that liquid water once flowed on its surface | show 🗑
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| Red giants are enormously bright because they are extremely hot. | show 🗑
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| show | meteorites
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| Stonehenge is an ancient observatory built in | show 🗑
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| Strong evidence about former existing life has been found on | show 🗑
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| The Milky Way galaxy is | show 🗑
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| The Sun has hundreds of times more mass than all the rest of the solar system | show 🗑
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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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| The core of a star is plasma with the density of solid lead. | show 🗑
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| show | true
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| The difference in brightness between two stars is related to the | show 🗑
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| show | true
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| The eventual fate of our Sun is to become | show 🗑
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| show | 10 billion years
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| The greater the apparent magnitude, the brighter the star. | show 🗑
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| show | solid carbon dioxide
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| The smallest planet in the solar system is | show 🗑
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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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| show | false
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| show | mass
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| Which of the following depends on your location on Earth? | show 🗑
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| show | it is much too cold for liquid to exist
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| show | blue
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| Which of the following statements about comets is not true? | show 🗑
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| show | none of the above
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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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| show | the moon
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| show | you are between the sun in one direction and falling rain in the other direction
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| When monochromatic light from two slits arrive at a point on a screen out of phase, | show 🗑
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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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| Ultraviolet light carries more energy than infrared radiation. | show 🗑
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| show | all of these are true
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| Today, light is understood to be adequately explained | show 🗑
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| The slower light travels in a given medium, the greater the index of refraction. | show 🗑
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| The sky appears to be blue because | show 🗑
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| The sky appears blue due to the light reflected from the oceans | show 🗑
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| show | true
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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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| Max Planck discovered that the blackbody radiation emitted by vibrating molecules | show 🗑
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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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| show | all light but green light
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| Glare is light that tends to be polarized predominantly in the horizontal plane | show 🗑
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| An image that does not have light rays coming from the image, but is the result of your brain's interpretations of light rays is called a | show 🗑
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| A prism separates the colors of sunlight into a spectrum because | show 🗑
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| show | produces light
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| show | false
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| show | on a typical day in the library
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| show | negative ion
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| show | volt
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| show | pulses of increased and decreased air pressure
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| A stationary source emits a sound at a constant frequency. If you run toward the source the frequency you hear will be | show 🗑
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| show | amp
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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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| show | B has a higher frequency than A
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| If you steadily pushed the bar magnet through a coil of wire as shown, | show 🗑
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| During a track and field meet, the time difference between seeing the smoke from a starter's gun and hearing the "bang" would be less | show 🗑
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| show | is a magnetic south pole
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| show | λ is inversely proportional to f.
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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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| show | the motor would behave like a generator
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| show | have a reverse north pole direction
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| Sound waves in air | show 🗑
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| The attractive force between two unlike charges has the same strength as the repulsive force between two like charges. | show 🗑
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| show | refraction
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| The characteristic of a sound wave that you interpret as volume is related to | show 🗑
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| The electrical force is much weaker than the force of gravity | show 🗑
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| The frequency of a vibration is measured in units of | show 🗑
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| The higher the frequency of a sound wave | show 🗑
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| show | all of these are true
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| show | 20 to 20,000 Hz
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| show | volt
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| show | true
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| show | true
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| The size of a current in a conductor depends on the _____ as well as the voltage. | show 🗑
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| show | amperage of the current
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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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| Through which medium will sound travel most rapidly? | show 🗑
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| show | solids
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| Two sound waves of unequal amplitudes with different frequencies will result in | show 🗑
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| Two in-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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| 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 | false
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| show | 5.6
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| show | four times as much
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| A gas that is usually found in the liquid phase is called a | show 🗑
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| show | convert heat into mechanical energy
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| show | false
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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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| Kinetic energy refers to | show 🗑
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| show | true
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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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| show | true
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| show | vacuum
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| show | true
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| show | false
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| show | 37
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| show | true
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| show | calorie
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| The energy supplied to a system in the form of heat, minus the work done by the system, is equal to the change in internal energy. This statement describes the | show 🗑
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| The evaporation of water cools the surroundings and the condensation of this vapor | show 🗑
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| The increase in potential energy caused by lifting an object can be calculated by multiplying its weight by its change in height. | show 🗑
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| The molecules of a gas are much farther apart than molecules in a solid or liquid. | show 🗑
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| show | true
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| show | sublimation
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| show | power
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| show | A piece of copper stores three times as much heat at the same temperaure
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| show | conduction
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| The water in a swimming pool is cooler than the surrounding sidewalk because | show 🗑
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| show | Student B did twice as much work climbing to the top of the structure
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| show | work against a vertical change of position
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| show | at all times
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| What form of heat transfer will warm your body without warming the air in a room? | show 🗑
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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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| A cannon ball and a bowling ball were dropped at the same time from the top of a building. At the instant before the balls hit the sidewalk, the cannon ball has greater | show 🗑
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| show | 50 m/s
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| show | Initial speed
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| show | false
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| Acceleration occurs when an object undergoes | show 🗑
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| show | 9.8 m/s2
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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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| show | force
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| show | velocity
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| show | false
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| If a net force applied to an object doubles, then its | show 🗑
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| show | 4.9 m
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| Ignoring air resistance, the velocity of a falling object | show 🗑
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| show | increasing speed and constant acceleration
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| show | direction
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| show | force
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| The pound is an English unit of measure; its SI counterpart is the | show 🗑
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| show | momentum
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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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| The tendency of a moving object to remain in unchanging motion in the absence of an unbalanced force is called | show 🗑
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| Which if the following is not a unit of acceleration | show 🗑
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| show | g/L
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| A condition that lifts a parcel of air to form cumulus clouds is | show 🗑
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| A cyclone is centered about a | show 🗑
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| show | cooling by expansion
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| A peneplain is | show 🗑
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| show | relative humidity
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| show | cannot return to its original shape when the stress is relieved
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| show | steep gradient and a V-shaped valley
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| show | a warm air mass advances over a mass of cooler air
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| show | loess
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| show | 75%
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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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| Deposits of bulldozed rocks that remain after a glacier melts are called | show 🗑
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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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| Longer periods of drizzle, rain or snow are usually associated with which cloud type? | show 🗑
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| show | 76.0 cm high
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| show | cooler than that on a hillside
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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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| show | erosion
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| Seismic waves are produced when rocks | show 🗑
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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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| The chief difference between fog and a cloud is | show 🗑
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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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| show | argon
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| show | iron oxides
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| show | all of the above
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| The wind chill factor | show 🗑
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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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| Weathering involves the | show 🗑
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| When a stream flows into a body of water it often forms a | show 🗑
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| When subjected to stress, rocks at great depths and high temperature tend to undergo | show 🗑
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| When water vapor in the atmosphere condenses to liquid water, | show 🗑
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| Which cloud type is usually associated with the arrival of a cold front? | show 🗑
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| show | dew
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| show | quartz
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| show | compressional folding
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| Which sequence of processes occurs in the correct order? | show 🗑
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| Your ears "pop" when your plane descends because | show 🗑
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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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| A watershed is | show 🗑
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| About what is the average concentration of salts in Earth's oceans? | show 🗑
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| show | submarine canyons
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| show | moves up and forward, then down and backward
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| Compared to the amount of surface water the amount of water stored in groundwater is | show 🗑
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| show | C
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| Considering only available sunlight and the ability to dissolve gases, the most abundant plant life should be found in a | show 🗑
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| show | false
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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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| show | Atlantic Ocean
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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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| The largest freshwater reservoir in the world is | show 🗑
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| The two most common ions in seawater are sodium and | show 🗑
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| The water table is an underground layer of water that tends to follow the topography of the surface. | show 🗑
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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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| show | comes from groundwater that has seeped into the stream channel
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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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| show | pulses of increased and decreased air pressure
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| Consider the diagram of two waves in the same medium: up and down | show 🗑
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| show | wavelength
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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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| The electric field lines in the diagram below indicate that (the face picture) | show 🗑
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| The north end of a magnetic compass needle does not always point to the geographic North Pole because | show 🗑
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| show | amperage of the current
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| The wave front of a refracted sound bends toward | show 🗑
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| Two in-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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| 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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| show | All of the above
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| show | C (in the middle)
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| Molecules in a solid | show 🗑
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| show | condensation
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| show | N
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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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| show | it releases heat to the surroundings
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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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| According to the scientific method, what needs to be done to move beyond conjecture or simple hypotheses in a person's understanding of their physical surroundings? | show 🗑
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| show | all of the above
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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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| In general, scientific investigations have which activities in common? | show 🗑
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| In the text, the equation V = tk is used to describe the relationship between the volume of a gas tank and the time required to fill it. The symbol "k" | show 🗑
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| Measured properties that have different values at different times are | show 🗑
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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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| Misleading people into believing that something has scientific validity when it does not is | show 🗑
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| show | 500 cm3
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| show | reliable
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| show | density
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| show | kilogram
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| The basic means of acquiring understanding in the sciences is | show 🗑
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| show | centimeter
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| show | how much space an object occupies
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| show | model
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| show | are in direct proportion
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| show | mass
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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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