8th HSES Final
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| What is the educated guess to a scientific problem? | The Hypothesis
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| What is the dependent variable? | The factor that is the result of the independent variable.
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| What is the control? | The standard that the results will be compared to in the experiment.
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| What is cleavage? | When a mineral breaks into smooth, flat surfaces.
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| What is Moh's hardness scale? | A list of minerals ranked according to hardness.
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| What type of rocks are formed by magma or lava cooling? | Igneous.
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| What type of rocks are formed from smaller rock particles fusing together by cemanting and compacting? | Sedimentary.
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| What type of rocks are formed by heat, pressure, and chemical reactions? | Metamorphic.
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| What is the classification for layered, metamorphic rocks? | Foliated.
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| What major process breaks down rock into smaller pieces? | Mechanical Weathering.
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| Liquid rock below the surface? | Magma.
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| Liquid rock above the surface? | Lava.
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| What causes earths core to be solid? | Pressure.
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| What is the compund of silicon andd oxygen? | Silicate.
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| What are the 4 phases of matter? | Liquid, solid, gas, and plasma.
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| What process wears away surface materials? | Erosion.
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| What is a bend n a river formed by erosion? | Meander.
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| What is produced when sulfurous gases mix with water vapor in the atmosphere? | Acid rain.
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| What concept did Alfred Wegener come up with? | Continental drift.
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| What is the name of "the single landmass of earth"? | Pangaea.
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| The age of the rock gets _________ the further away it is from the ridge? | Older.
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| What is the name of the boundary where it goes on top of eachother? | Convergent boundary.
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| What is the name of the boundary where they slide past eachother? | Transform boundary.
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| What is the name of the boundary where the move away from eachother? | Divergent.
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| What is the name of the fault where they pass eachother? | Strike-slip.
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| What is the name of the fault where the plate moves to the left? | Reverse.
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| What is the name of the fault where the plate moves to the right? | Normal.
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| What telescope uses lenses to bend light? | Refracting telescope.
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| What type of telescope uses mirrors to bounce light? | Reflecting telescope.
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| Which law of motinon explains how rockets work? | Law of action/reaction.
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| What law of motion states that a force is created by an accelerating mass? | Law of acceleration.
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| Which law of motion states that an object in motion will stay in motion and an object at rest will stay at rest? | Law of inertia.
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| Which law of motion states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction? | Law of action/reaction.
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| What type of spacecrafts were ISS, Mir, and US Skylab? | Space stations.
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| What type of spacecrafts were Columbia, Challenger, Atlantis, Discovery, and Endeavour? | Space Shuttles.
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| What is the amount of time it takes an object to make one full spin on its axis? | Rotation.
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| What is the amount of time for one object to make one full trip around a larger object? | Revolution.
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| What was the purpose of the appolo program? | To land a person on the moon.
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| What is the heliocentric solar system? | When it revolves around the sun.
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| What does gravity depend on? | Distance and mass.
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| What happens in a solar eclipse? | Moon passes in front of the sun.
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| What happens in a lunar eclipse? | Sun passes in front of the moon.
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| What is the hottest planet? | Venus.
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| What planet has Olympus Mons? | Mars.
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| What are Pluto, Eris, and Ceres? | Dwarf planets.
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| What is the circulation of air due to hot air rising and cooler air sinking? | Convection.
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| What pressure does hot air rising cause? | Low pressure.
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| What is the movement of air from one place to another? | Wind.
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| What is the natural phenomenon that occurs in the northern hemisphere where air is deflected to the right? | Coriolis effect.
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| What is the measurement of the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere? | Specific humidity.
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| What is the large air mass with high amounts of moisture that comes from the Gulf of Mexico? | Maritime Tropical.
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| What is the frozen precipitation the forms as a result of strong winds carrying the water above the freezing line? | Hail.
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| What severe weather causes the most deaths every year? | Flash Flooding.
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| What measures relative humidity? | Psychrometer.
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| What is sinking low pressure that picks up debris? | Tornado.
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| What cloud makes thunderstorms? | Cumulonimbus.
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| What air mass brings in cold, dry air? | Continental polar.
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| What is created by the separation of electrical charges that are discharges between the cloud and ground? | Lightning.
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| What is the symbol for a cold front? | Triangles on top of a line.
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| What is the symbol for a warm front? | Semicircles on top of a line.
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| What is the symbol for a stationary front? | Semicircles on top of a line and triangles on bottom.
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| What is the symbol for an occluded front? | Alternating semicircles and triangles on top of a line.
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