BVHS Physical Science Chapter 1

Question 1

South Dakota's state fossil is the

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Triceratops

Question 2

The state flower of South Dakota is the?

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Pasque flower

Question 3

South Dakota's state bird is?

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Ring-Necked Pheasant

Question 4

1235 kg= ? g

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1235000

Question 5

A scientific model is a

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representation of a real event of object.

Question 6

Who made the dead man's hand famous?

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Wild Bill Hickock

Question 7

According to the July 1, 2015 census, Sioux Falls' population was?

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171,544

Question 8

The SI unit for measuring temperature is?

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Kelvin

Question 9

What is the area of a room if it is 12 m wide by 12 m long?

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144 m2

Question 10

The force with which gravity pulls on a quantity of matter is referred to as

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weight

Question 11

The decimal equivalent of 10-4 is

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.0001

Question 12

The number 0.0009234 would be written in scientific notation as

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9.234 x 10-4

Question 13

Which of these famous people is not from South Dakota?

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Dakota Fanning

Question 14

What type of description of a scientific law would use a mathematical equation?

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quantitative

Question 15

The state sport of South Dakota is?

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rodeo

Question 16

Which of the following is the world's longest non-navigable river?

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James River

Question 17

Technology can best be defined as

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applied sciences

Question 18

Which of the following IS NOT a reason scientists should share their experimental findings?

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To continue to know more than their counterparts

Question 19

What type of description of a law would use words?

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Qualitative

Question 20

True or False. South Dakota has more miles of shoreline than Florida.

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True

Question 21

The state insect of South Dakota is the?

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Honeybee

Question 22

South Dakota's state nickname is?

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Mount Rushmore State

Question 23

The usual order of steps which the scientific method follows is

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find a problem, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion, share

Question 24

1.56 x 103 as a decimal?

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1560

Question 25

24 m= ? cm

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2400

Question 26

The standard unit for length is the

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meter

Question 27

A measurement that is accurate is one that

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is close to the true value.

Question 28

.005 in scientific notation would be?

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5 x 10-3

Question 29

Harney Peak's name was recently re-named to

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Black Elk Peak

Question 30

South Dakota's state jewelry is?

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Black Hills Gold

Question 31

Which of the following movies was NOT set in South Dakota?

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Question 32

The state fish of South Dakota is?

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Walleye

Question 33

From left to right, what is the order of the presidents on Mt. Rushmore?

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Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Lincoln

Question 34

What do scientists who do pure science do?

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They do experiments to find out about the world.

Question 35

The best kind of graph to make to show the density of several different substances would be a

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Bar Graph

Question 36

The graph the best displays information as part of a whole would be

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Pie Chart

Question 37

Which South Dakota city is the geographic center of the United States?

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Belle Fourche

Question 38

A precise measurement is one that

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is as exact as possible.

Question 39

How many people died while trying to ford Splitrock Creek in 1879 near McHardy Park?

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4

Question 40

South Dakota's state slogan is

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Great Faces, Great Places

Question 41

South Dakota's state tree is the?

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Black Hills Spruce

Question 42

The number of variables that should change in an experiment is?

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1

Question 43

Which graphs are most effective at displaying data that changes continuously?

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Line Graph

Question 44

Which of the following athletes is not from South Dakota?

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Carson Wentz

Question 45

Any factor that can be changed in an experiment is called a

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variable

Question 46

According to the 2010 census, South Dakota's population was

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814,180

Question 47

The Seven Council Fires (Oceti-Sakowin) is made of the following Sioux Nation divisions except

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Arikara

Question 48

The state dessert of South Dakota is?

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Kuchen

Question 49

A scientific theory tells...

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why something happens

Question 50

South Dakota's state gemstone is the ?

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Fairburn Agate

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