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Which layer of the Earth is the thinnest? |
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Name the layers of the Earth inner to outer |
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Inner Core, Outer Core,Mantle ,Asthenosphere , Lithosphere , Crust |
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Which layer is the thickest? |
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What element is commonly found in all layers? |
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Describe how Earth's plates move |
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Divergent, Convergent, Transform |
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Where do Earthquakes and volcano's usually occur? |
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The waves from earth qaukes are called ______ |
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A shift in the plates cause energy in the form of what? |
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Name the three types of rocks |
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Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic |
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How does igneous rock form? |
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How does Sedimentary rock form? |
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Sediments get compacted and cemented together |
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How does metamorphic rock form? |
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Heat & pressure on sedimentary rock |
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Energy that has the potential to move |
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Something resisting motion |
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What is the greatest force? |
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What the formula for speed? |
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Speed = Distance ÷time
S=D÷T |
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Something orbiting around something else |
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Something spinning(orbiting) |
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The path in which planets travel around the sun is called a what? |
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What does a space probe carry? |
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Instruments ( not people ) |
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Compare the Inner and Outer Planets |
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Inner- Terrestrial
Outer-Gas Giants |
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What force keeps the planets in their orbits? |
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Compare Autotrophs and heterotrophs |
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Autotroph- makes their own food
Heterotroph-Eats Other Organisms |
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Compare Eukaryotes and prokaryotes |
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Eukaryotes-All organelles and multicellular
Prokaryotes-No nucleus and unicellular |
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Interconnected food chains |
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A change an organism makes to survive in its environment |
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Compare biotic and abiotic |
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Biotic-alive
Abiotic- not living |
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Three members of an ecosystem |
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Producers, consumers , decomposers |
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Break down dead organisms |
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Who devised taxonomy system? Why? |
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Carolus Linnaeus, so that an animals name is understood in all languages |
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8 levels of taxonomy in order |
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Domain(Dear)
Kingdom(King)
Phylum(Philip)
Class(Come)
Order(Over)
Family(For)
Genus(Good)
Species(Soup)
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