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| The unit most likely to measure the distance of the Earth's equator would be? |
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| amount of matter in an object |
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| if an object floats on water, its density must be |
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| the unit most likely to measure the length of your pencil would be |
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| what is the pull of gravity on an object? |
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| true or false. A substance can be identified by its density. |
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| What unit is used to measure the volume of water in Lake Michigan? |
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| What unit is used to measure the mass of your book? |
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| What is the curved surface of a liquid in a container called? |
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| What is the name of today's system of scientific measurement? |
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| What is the method that the volume of an irregular solid can be found by? |
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| What is the prefix that means .01? (give the word) |
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| What is the prefix that means thousand? (give the word) |
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| What is the SI system based on? |
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| What is the density of pure liquid water? |
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| Find the density of a substance with a mass of 3.68g and a volume of 4cm3 |
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| Find the density of a substance with a mass of 4.14g and volume of 3cm3 |
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| LOOK AT LAST PAGE OF MEASUREMENT TEST! |
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| What term describes the difference in elevation between the highest and lowest parts of an area? |
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| A landform that has high elevation and a more or less level surface is a? |
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| New Orleans, Louisiana, and Cario, Egypt, are nearly the same distance north of the equator. This means that the two cities have almost the same... |
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| What kind of slope do closely spaced contour lines indicate? |
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| It would be easy to walk up a slope represented by contour lines that are? |
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| A closed loop indicates what on a topographic map? |
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| How is a depression in the ground indicated on a topographic map? |
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| A contour line that forms a closed loop and has small dashes pointing to the inside of the loop. |
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| Give examples of landforms. |
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| Plateaus, plains, mountains |
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| the distance in degrees east or west of the prime meridian |
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| the height measured from sea level |
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| what type of landform has high elevation and high relief |
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1) passes through Greenwich, England
2) runs from the North Pole to the South Pole
3) does not have parallel lines |
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1) The 0 degree line of latitude divides the Earth into North and South Hemispheres
2) parallel lines on map |
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| What is a nebula made of? |
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| a cloud of dust and gases, hydrogen and helium |
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| when a large star explodes |
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| How is a new star formed? |
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| a small area of a nebula is disturbed |
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| What is the order in which a star is formed? |
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| Disturbance, rotation, protostar, nuclear fusion, star. |
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| At what exact event will a protostar become a star? |
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| When the temperature becomes hot for nuclear fusion of hydrogen to begin. |
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| Why did the inner planets become terrestrial planets? |
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| Because they are so close to the sun, the outer surface of the sun was much hotter then, and the hot solar winds vaporized/ blew the atmosphere away. |
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| True or false. Comets are made only of gas and dust. |
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Short term comets orginate
A) very near the sun
B)in the asteroid belt
C)beyond Nebtune
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| why does a comet's tail continually point away from the sun? |
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| Because of the solar winds blowing on the comet. |
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| what parts of a comet are present when it is far away from the sun? |
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| If a comet has an orbital period of 67 years where did it originate? |
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| What determines the edge of our solar system? |
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| Where is a meteorite found? |
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| on the surface of our planet |
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| When a large rock from space enters our atmosphere it produces a light. what is this light called? |
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| A rock moving in space is called what? |
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| true/false. Meteoroids can be formed by two asteroids hitting and breaking apart. |
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| A comet formed in the Oort cloud may have an orbital period of how many years? |
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| Cosmic background radiation coming from all directions in the universe is support for what? |
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| According to the theory for the formation of the universe, what was the first thing formed? |
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| According to the theory that formed the universe, how did matter form? |
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| Some of the expanding energy became matter. |
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| What layer of the sun has yellow color? |
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| What layer of the sun has atoms very very tightly packed together? |
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| What is the hottest layer of the sun? |
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| What layer of the sun has a name that means crown? |
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| In what layer of the sun is heat transferred by increase and decrease of density? |
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| Sun spots are found on what layer of the sun? |
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| What layer of the sun is next to the core? |
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| What is the largest layer of the sun; it extends far out. |
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| In what layer of the sun are gasses thick enough to be seen? |
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| What layer of the sun has red color? |
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| Name the two layers of the sun that can only be seen during a total solar eclipse. |
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| Why can't the chromosphere and corona normally be seen? |
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| They normally can not be seen because the light of the other layers outshines the light from them and because the atoms are too far apart from eachother. |
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| What are large steams of particles that arch away from the sun and disrupt satellite communication? |
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| As the corona thins out, what do the particles form? |
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| Name the theory- the sun is the center of our solar system. |
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| Stars moving together and form a picture is what? |
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| What is the formula for the nuclear reaction in our sun? |
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| What color is the hottest stars on the main sequence? |
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| when nuclear fusion of hydrogen to helium begins |
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| What does the way a star dies depend on? |
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| A super nova is the explosion of a dying what? |
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| high mass or very high mass star. |
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| How long was the life span of a star that died as a black hole? |
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| What is the name given to a dead, low mass star? |
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| WHat kind of star spins on its axis 30 times a second sending out pulsing radio waves? |
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| What are the oldest objects in the universe and are found on the edge of the universe. |
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| What is a small dense star formed from a low mass star that shines because of stored energy? |
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| A low mass star's life cycle is: star formation, main sequence... what comes next? |
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| red giant, white dwarf, black dwarf. |
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The star Naos is very massive and will have the shortest time on the main sequence. It is
A) low mass star
B) high mass star
C) very high mass star
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If a star is on the main sequence and it is red, it
A) is a young star
B) is a middle age star
C) it is about to die
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| Because iron absorbs a tremendous amount of heat |
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A blue star on the main sequence is a...
A) young star
B) middle age star
C) between middle age and old age
D) an old star, about to die |
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| What star is very small, about 16km? |
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| The outer shell of this star drifts off into space leaving a core. |
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| True or false. A low mass star has less fuel so it burns its fuel fast. |
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| True or false. When a star supernovas it sends into space materials to start new stars. |
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| If a star has a very high mass it will die as what? |
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| What is the percentage of main sequence stars in the sky? |
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Small mass star/_ life span.
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This star can only be detected by x-rays.
A) pulsars
B) black holes
C) neutron stars
D) black dwarfs |
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| What star has an outer surface that cools down, gets larger, and floats off into space? |
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| What star can have nuclear fusion go all the way to form iron? |
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| What planet has water as solid, liquid, and gas. |
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| What planet has no atmosphere? |
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| What planet has the widest range of temperature? |
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| What planet's pressure is 90Xs that of Earths? |
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| What planet is believed to at one time have had liquid water. |
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| What planet has retrograde rotation? |
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| What planet has a thin carbon dioxide atmosphere? |
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| What planet has the highest temperature? |
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| What is the smallest planet? |
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| What planet has many craters that have never been eroded? |
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| What planet will one day have a ring? |
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| What planet has pink wind storms? |
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| What planet has a run-a-way Greenhouse effect? |
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The terrestrial planets are the
A) largest planets
B) rock planets
C) gas planets
D) coldest planets |
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| What kind of rotation does Earth have? |
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| Why does the Greenhouse Effect funtion? |
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| the carbon dioxide absorbs heat |
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| the largest volcano in the solar system and is found on Mars |
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| Why can Mercury not hold an atmosphere? |
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| Because its mass is so small it doesn't have enough gravitational pull |
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Which of the following is not true? Valles Marineris
A) is a canyon
B) is as large as the width of the United States from California to New York State
C) was formed by water erosion
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| C) was formed by water erosion |
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| Why is the yellow planet yellow? |
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| because its outer atmosphere contains some sulfer |
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| Why is the red planet red? |
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| Because of the iron oxide in the soil |
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| A planet has a wide range of temperature. What is the reason for this difference? |
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| It has no atmosphere to protect it from the sun's heat in the day or to retain the heat at night. |
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Most asteroids are
A)found in a thin belt
B)range from less than a km to more than 300 km.
C)found between Mars and Jupiter
D)a,b, and c are true
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| D)a,b, and c are true... they are found in a thin belt, range from less than a km to more than 300 km and are found between Mars and Jupiter. |
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| How long does Earth's rotation take? |
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| What causes day and night? |
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| Earth's rotation on its axis. |
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| How long does it take for Earth to make one complete revolution around the sun? |
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| What does the phase of the moon you see depend on? |
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| How much of the sunlit side of the moon faces Earth. |
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| When the sun, Earth, and the moon are nearly in a line. |
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| Why do you never see the far side of the moon from Earth? |
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| Because the moon rotates once for each revolution around Earth |
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| What are the two factors that combine to keep Earth and the moon in their orbits? |
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| When the heat/light rays from the sun hit the Northern Hemisphere at an angle less than 90 degrees, what season will it be in the Northern Hemisphere and why? |
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| It will be winter because the rays cover more area |
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| What is the tendency of a moving object to continue moving in a straight line or a stationary object to remain in place called? |
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| What does the strength of the force of gravity depend on? |
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| The masses of the objects and the distance between them. |
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| Why does the temperature of the moon's surface vary greatly from day to night? |
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| The moon has no atmosphere and can not protect the moon from the sun's heat or the heat loss. |
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| Where is a total solar eclipse visible from? |
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| Only within the moon's umbra. |
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| During a total lunar eclipse the moon is in Earth's what? |
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| Where might water be found on the moon? |
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| When the north end of Earth's axis is tilted toward the sun, North America will experience what? |
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| more direct rays and longer days. |
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| How large is the moon compared to Earth? |
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| About one-fourth the diameter of Earth. |
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| True/false. The Earth and our moon are exactly the same age? |
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| True/false. The Earth was solid when it was impacted? |
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| can have very steep sides |
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| one object moves around another object |
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| tide with the greatest difference between high and low tides |
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| tide with the least difference in high and low tides |
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| an opening in a surface, magma flows out |
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| the type of tide Mobile has |
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