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What is density?
Which map is most widely used
Earth and Environmental Unit 1
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What is Earth science and the scientific method
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Which map is most widely used
Conic
Mercator
Robinson
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What is density?
How much matter is in an object
Mass per unit
How much space an object takes up
3
What shape does the Sigmoid growth curve show?
J
G
C
S
4
The sunlight on the equator is direct
False
True
5
You start to eat more spinach, you increase iron in your blood. What’s the dependent variable?
Spinach you eat
Increase the amount iron in your blood
6
What type of variable is being tested or changed?
Independent
Dependent
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Living components of an ecosystem?
Abiotic
Biotic
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Energy of the universe is constant
False
True
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What is acid rain?
Pure water
pH higher than normal
Water with chlorine
Rain with pH lower than normal
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Which side of a penny will hold more drops of water? Choose the best hypothesis
tails
if use heads, would hold more drops than tails
Heads
Tails would hold more
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Which sphere has the keyword that means life
Atmosphere
Biosphere
hydrospehere
Geosphere
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Air pollution is caused by what and what impact to the environment
Air pollution; positive
Humans; negative
Planes; positive
Marine organisms; negative
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Mercator map lines of longitude are
Perpendicular
adjacent
Parellel
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What is the first step in the scientific method?
Collect data
Problem/ question
Make a hypothesis
Research
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What are the branches of Earth Science
microbiology geology meteorography
Oceanography meteorography astronomy geology
None of the above
Oceanography biology astronomy
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Meteorogy is the study of what?
The Earth
The universe
The atmosphere
The materials that make up Earth
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About how much Nitrogen is in the atmosphere?
25%
78%
21%
50%
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It is important for your hypothesis to be correct
False
True
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The Prime Meridian divides the Earth into...
W to E
N to S
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This is the most accurate way to view the Earth?
At night
Close-up
Using a globe
Using a map
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What is the Law of Conversation of Mass?
Mass can neither be created nor destroyed
Mass can be created and destroyed
Mass can be only created
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Which one is measured in degrees N or S?
Latitude
Prime meridian
Equator
Longitude
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I am any factor that can change in a combined experiment or model. What am I ?
A variable
None of the above
A method
A law
24
Global Warming...
Temperature remains constant
The layer that traps UV lights
Heat is trapped because there is no more greenhouse gases
It cannot be determined
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The true shape of the Earth is best described as...
An oblate spheroid
A sphere
An obsolete circle
An elliptical hemisphere
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The variable that is being measured in an experiment; it always changes in response to the...
Hypothesis
Independent variable
Dependent variable
Scientific method
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Which one passes through Greenwich, England? By what degrees?
Prime meridian, 35
Equator, 35
Prime meridian, 0
Equator, 0
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Which line of latitude separates the northern and Southern Hemispher?
The tropics of Capricorn
The tropics of cancer
Equator
Prime meridian
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Get to school faster by riding your back instead of walking. What’s the dependent variable?
No variable
How fast you get to school
Riding a bike or walking
Myself
30
The most abundant elemne in ocean water are...
Hydrogen and oxygen
Hydrogen and helium
Helium and oxygen
Sodium
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Which ocean lies between North America and Europe?
Atlantic
Pacific
Indian
Artic
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What is a renewable resource?
Marine organisms
None of the above
Anything that breathes
Resource which is replaced naturally and can be used again
33
Approximately this percentage of the Earth is covered by land
12
50
30
70
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Want your experiment to have this many independent variable(s) to have it be valid
2
4
1
3
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Non-living components of an ecosystem?
Biotic
Abiotic
