Bartelt Final Exam Review Part 2

Question 1

Earth’s rotation makes global winds curve. This is called the

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Coriolis effect

Question 2

All of the following are examples of precipitation except?

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groundwater

Question 3

What is the name of the process by which water vapor enter the atmosphere?

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evaporation

Question 4

Mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism are the three types of

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symbiotic relationships

Question 5

As you rise upwards in the atmosphere, air pressure

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decreases

Question 6

The collecting of weather data in the last 40 years has been improved mostly by

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balloons and satellites.

Question 7

Any form of water that falls from clouds is called

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precipitation

Question 8

The solar system formed from

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a giant cloud of gas and dust.

Question 9

The struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources is called

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competition

Question 10

Cool air tends to

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be more dense and flow under warm air.

Question 11

Cold, dry air affecting the northern United States in winter often comes from

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continental polar air masses.

Question 12

What do all of the inner planets have in common?

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They all are small and have rocky surfaces.

Question 13

Uranus is different from most other planets because it

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rotates on its side.

Question 14

A group of antelope leaving the herd in search of better grassland is an example of

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emigration

Question 15

The nonliving parts of an ecosystem are called

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abiotic factors

Question 16

The asteroid belt is located

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between Mars and Jupiter.

Question 17

When a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet and neither can move the other, the result is a

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stationary front.

Question 18

Large clouds that often produce thunderstorms are called

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cumulonimbus clouds.

Question 19

The place where an organism lives and that provides the things the organism needs is called its

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habitat

Question 20

Which of the following is a biotic factor in the prairie ecosystem?

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grass

Question 21

The type of current produced by a battery is

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direct current

Question 22

Saturn’s rings are made up mostly of

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chunks of ice and rock

Question 23

Weather associated with an anticyclone is generally

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dry and clear.

Question 24

The ozone layer protects living things on Earth from

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ultraviolet radiation

Question 25

The most dangerous aspect of a snowstorm is often the

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high winds.

Question 26

The smallest unit of ecological organization is a single

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organism

Question 27

A solenoid with a ferromagnetic core is called a(n)

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electromagnet

Question 28

All the different populations that live together in an area make up a(n)

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community

Question 29

Isobars are lines on a map joining places that have the same

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air pressure

Question 30

What kind of weather would a continental tropical air mass bring?

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hot and dry

Question 31

A device used to measure small currents is a(n)

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galvanometer

Question 32

Venus and Earth are much alike in terms of

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their size and density.

Question 33

Which is the smallest terrestrial planet?

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Mercury

Question 34

You can increase the strength of an electromagnet’s field by

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using a stronger ferromagnetic material for the core

Question 35

When a flea is living on a dog, the dog is the

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host

Question 36

Magnetic poles that are unlike

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attract each other.

Question 37

Every magnet has two

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magnetic poles

Question 38

What do the four outer planets have in common?

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larger than Earth and made mainly of hydrogen and helium.

Question 39

Meteoroids usually come from

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comets or asteroids.

Question 40

Very high feathery clouds are called

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cirrus

Question 41

The Greenhouse Effect is

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the process by which gases hold heat in the atmosphere

Question 42

An organism's particular role in its habitat, or when and how it survives, is called its

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niche

Question 43

A major difference between cyclones and anticyclones is

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the direction of their winds.

Question 44

In a heliocentric system, Earth revolves around

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the Sun

Question 45

Magnetic poles that are alike

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repel each other

Question 46

Relative humidity can be measured with a(an)

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psychrometer

Question 47

Two conditions are required for cloud formation: cooling of the air and

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the presence of particles in the air.

Question 48

What is distinctive about Jupiter?

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It is the largest and most massive planet

Question 49

An electric current produces a(n)

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magnetic field

Question 50

The layer of our atmosphere in which weather occurs is the

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troposphere

Bartelt Final Exam Review Part 2

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Bartelt Final Exam Review Part 2

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