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| rocks formed when pieces of rocks, plant and animal matter, or dissolved minerals gather into layers |
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| solid that has a repeating pattern of atoms |
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| rocks formed when older rocks are heated and/or squeezed |
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| rocks that form when magma or lava cools |
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| remains or trace of a once-living plant or animal |
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| Carbon films are formed when a thin film of carbon is left, forming a silhouette of the original organism. |
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| Dinosaur footprints are original remains. |
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| False, dinosaur footprints are trace fossils. Original remains are entire body in tar, or amber, or even ice |
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| Deciduous trees are pioneer species. |
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| false, pioneer species are usually grasses, or lichen, they are first to grow. |
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| Modern electronic communications allow people throughout the world to learn quickly about new discoveries. |
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| True, people use email now to tell others about their experiments. |
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| Science has been used throughout history to answer questions about the world. |
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| Nonliving things, such as rock, soil and air are all part of an ecosystem |
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| In an ecosystem, living things interact only with other living things |
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| Absolute age examines the position of rocks in a sequence |
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| false, relative looks at position. |
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| Ecosytem is another word for the study of the biosphere. |
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| False, ecosystem involves interactions of living and non living factors. |
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| Algae, fish, insects, and moss are examples of biotic factors |
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| Fossils most often form when a dead organism is buried in sediments. |
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| If the results of your experiment do not support your hypothesis, it means your hypothesis is wrong |
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| False, It could be the design of experiment, or another factor that caused the results to be different from what was expected. |
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| Nonconformities occur when sedimentary rocks are deposited on top of uplifted and eroded metamorphic aor igneous rocks. |
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| Regeneration occurs when an offspring grows from a piece of its parent |
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| Nonconformities occur when sedimentary rocks are deposited on top of uplifted and eroded metamorphic aor igneous rocks. |
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| The number of trials conducted is the same in every experiment |
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| fungi are decomposes because the feed on dead organic and waate materials |
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| DNA is found in the cytoplasm |
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| false, it is found in the nucleu |
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| One advantage of sexual reproduction is a new combination of DNA results in genetic variations |
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| Which layer of rainforest vegetation is made up of shade tolerant shorter plants, insects, reptiles, and amphibians? |
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| As you move upward from level to level in an energy pyramid, energy __________ |
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| determining the order of events and the relatvie age of rocks by examining the position of rocks in a sequence is called? |
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| a lack of explanation for continental drift prevented many scientists from accepting that a single supercontinental called |
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| A sample that is treated exactly like the other experimental groups except that the variable is not applied to it is a |
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| if the same sequence of rock layers is observed over a large area |
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| a large deposit of rock formed over that large area. |
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| Nitrogen is a necessary ingredient of |
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| Ecologists count the number of frogs living in pond community to determine the |
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| Listing what is known about a problem and possible ways to solve the problem are parts of |
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| When a Gila monster uses a rock for shade from the noonday sun, it is interacting with |
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| Which of the following is a biotic factor? |
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not water, sunlight, climate
It is worms. |
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| Scientists believe that differences in_________cause hot, plasticlike rock in asthenosphere to rise toward Earth's surface |
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| Scientists conduct multiple trials of their experiments because |
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| their results are more likely to be reliable. |
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| A Gila monster, scorpion, and creosote bush would most likely be found in an ______________ecosystem. |
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| Which is not a freshwater ecosystem? |
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| Rocks that are produced when magma or lava cools and hardens called |
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| Decaying matter found in soil is called |
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| A good way to organize and record your results and observations is |
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| Which word best describes the frogs, birds, and insects in an ecosystem? |
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| _________________currents inside Earth might drive plate motion. |
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| Continental drift states that continents have moved______to their current location. |
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| Plates move apart at _______________boundaries |
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| eating dead organisms and waste material. |
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| The size of mineral crystals in igneous rocks |
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| helps classify the rocks. |
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| Gaps in rock layers are called |
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| One way to reduce bias in an experiment is to |
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| take numerical measurements of the results. |
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| all matter on Earth is _________through food chains |
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| _______________are formed when two continental plates collide |
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| a factor in an experiment that can change is a |
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| in order to complete a convection current, the rising material must eventually |
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| Rocks are foliated or non foliated depending on their |
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| A model of a feeding relationship is a |
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| The youngest rocks on the ocean floor are located at |
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| Which statement best describes how rocks are classified as igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic? |
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| The hypothesis that continents have slowly moved to their current locations is called |
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| floods, droughts, or cold spells affect the __________________of an ecosystem. |
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| Plates of the lithosphere float on the |
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| Plates slide past on another at |
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| the word metamorphic means |
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| which of the following eats consumers? herbivore, fungi, bacteria, carnivore |
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| Matching________________on different continents are evidence for continental drift |
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| The boundary between two plates moving together moving together is called |
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| Which of these is a consumer? frog, cactus, rain, or shrub |
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| The job, or role of an organism in an ecosystem is the organism's |
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| Bands of rock on the seafloor showing alternating magnetic orientation indicate Earth's magnetic field has |
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| reversed itself in the past. |
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| ______________can save time and money by testing ideas that would otherwise be difficult to test quickly |
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| ______________can save time and money by testing ideas that would otherwise be difficult to test quickly or easily |
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| Which can occur in the rock cycle? |
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| sedimentary rock is heated and squeezed to form metamorphic rock. |
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| The alignment of iron minerals in rocks when they are formed reflects the face that Earth's______has reversed itself several times in the past |
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| One organism feeding on another organism to get energy they need is called |
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| Seafloor spreading occurs because |
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| molten material beneath Earth's crust rises to the surface |
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| Broken pieces of what types of rock are deposited into layers and cemented together to form sedimentary rock |
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| All metamorphic, sedimentary, and igneous. |
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| Rock layers are correlated if they both contain the same |
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| Which process uses oxygen in plants, algae and animals? |
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| The tree squirrel lives in its |
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| With ___________dating, a rock's exact age can be determined, whereas with _______dating, a rock's age is compared to the ages of other rocks. |
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| This does not help preservation of organisms as fossils |
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| activities of microorganisms |
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| The rock cycle shows each rock |
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| a prediction or statement that can be tested is |
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| Which of the following is a producer? grasshopper, sunlight, ant, or tree |
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| nitrogen in the soil is used by? |
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| a living thing that uses energy, reproduces, and grows is called |
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| During fertilization, an egg cell and a sperm cell join together and the new cell that forms is called |
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| These are pairs of chromosomes that have genes for the same traits arranged in the same order |
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| Sex cells are ________________; they have only one chromosome from each pair of chromosome |
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| this phase comes after prophase in mitosis |
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| A type of asexual reproduction performed in a laboratory that produces identical individuals from a cell or a cluster of cells taken from a multicellular organism is called |
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| A form of asexual reproduction in which offspring grow from a part of parent plant |
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| this process makes a copy of a DNA molecule |
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| This term describes multiple genes affeting the phenotype of one gene? |
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| The process of making a protein from RNA is called |
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| The different forms of a gene are called |
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| Geneticists call how a trait appears or is expressed a |
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| in this phase of mitosis, duplicated chromosomes align in the middle of the cell |
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