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| When do two objects repel each other? When do they attract? |
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| They will repel when there are two charges of the same. They will attract when they are two different charges. |
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| 3 ways a object can become statically charged. |
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| Friction, induction, and conduction. |
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| What type of material is a good conductor? What is a good insulator? |
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| What does a object with a equal number of protons and electrons have? |
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| What are the parts of a circuit? |
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| Battery, Switch, Light bulb, Resistor, and Wires. |
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| Differences between series and parallel circuit? |
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parallel circuit can have more than one switch.
With a parallel circuit if you detach one wire on light will stay on. |
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| What happens to the appliences if one burns out? |
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| In a circuit series everything will go off but in a series circuit, the other part will stay on. |
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| What are the names of the terminals on a battery? |
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| Current is the rate at which charges move though a? |
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Whether or not charges will move in a material depends partly on how tightly _____ are held in the atoms of? |
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| It is a law stating that electric current is proportional to voltage and inversely proportional to resistance. |
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| Who is Wegener? and why is he important to plate tectonics? |
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| Wegener was a german polar scientist. And he created the theory of continental drift. |
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| Pangaea was a supercontinent that consisted of all of the continents in the world. |
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| What was the theory of continental drift? Evidence? |
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| It is the theory that once all the continents were joined in a super-continent but the seperated. There were some fossils found in places that gave evidence. |
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| What are the layers of the earth? |
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| Inner core, Outer core, Mantle, and Crust. |
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| Where is the continental crust the thickest and thinnest? |
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Thickest= mountain root
Thinnest=rift zones |
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| Differences between continental and oceanic? |
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| continental is thicker but oceanic is denser. |
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| Radioactive materials have unstable _____? |
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| Compare and contrast convergent , divergent and transform fault boundaries? |
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| At a convergent plate boundary, two tectonic plates are moving toward each other; at a divergent plate boundary, two tectonic platesare moving away from each other. |
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| What happens at the San Andreas Fault? |
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| The plates slide against eachother. |
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| What are convection currents? |
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| Convections currents are movements caused by temp. changes in liquid or gas bodies. |
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| Where do most earthquakes and volcanoes occur? |
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| Along cracks and boundaries of tectonic plates. |
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What does a seismogram measure? |
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| How many seismograms do you need to read the epicenter? |
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| What are P, S, and Surface waves? |
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| P- waves are the initial waves, S-waves are the secondary waves and Surface are the ones that do the damage |
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| What was a richter scale made to do? |
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| It was made to measure small earthquakes. |
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| A stationary electric charge, typically produced by friction that causes sparks or crackling. |
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| What is the asthenosphere? |
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| The asthenosphere is the upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere. |
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| Adapt to the prevailing level of light and become able to see clearly. |
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| A quantity representing the amount of water vapor present in the air. |
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| What is electrical power? |
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| The product of voltage and current. |
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| A natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms. |
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| Each of two or more forms of the same element that contain equal numbers of protons but different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei. |
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| Energy that a body possesses by virtue of being in motion. |
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| A stable subatomic particle with a charge of negative electricity, found in all atoms and acting as the primary carrier of electricity |
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