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What gives water the strong surface tension that causes molecules to stick together and form a "skin like" layer on the surface?
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Polarity
Density
Solubility
Heat Capacity
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As water freezes and becomes ice, what happens to the density of the water?
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It stays the same.
It goes away completely.
It decreases.
It increases.
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What gives water the strong surface tension that causes molecules to stick together and form a "skin like" layer on the surface?
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As water freezes and becomes ice, what happens to the density of the water?
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What makes water a polar molecule?
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How does the sun affect the water cycle?
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How does gravity affect the water cycle?
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Walter, the water drop, rises up to the sky and begins to cool down. What happens next?
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Walter, the water drop, plays in the sun and starts to feel warm. What happens next?
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Walter, the water drop, met up with some friends in a cloud when it became too crowded because there were too many water droplets. What will happen to him next?
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Latisha and her friends were having a party in their garden. She took a sealed, plastic container of ice cubes out of the freezer for their drinks. The outside of the container was dry when she took it out of the freezer. She set it down on a table outside and did not open the container. Half an hour later she noticed that all of the ice had melted inside the container and that the container was full of water. A small puddle had formed on the table around the outside of the container. Which best describes where the puddle of water came from?
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You went out on a sunny day with a glass of cold lemonade. You noticed that the outside of your glass had some droplets of water. Where did those droplets come from?
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Why does water vapor condense when it travels far above the earth?
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You are a molecule of water (in solid form) sitting on a mountaintop surrounded by millions of your relatives, all of them snow. The sun is bright and it is starting to get very hot, when all of a sudden...
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What happens to the precipitation that falls onto the ground that is already fully saturated with water?
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Letters A, B, C, and D represent processes that occur during the water cycle. Which two letters represent processes in the water cycle where liquid turns into gas?
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Letters A, B, C, and D represent processes that occur during the water cycle. What are two water cycle processes not represented by arrows?
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How do scientists classify rocks?
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Put the layers of Earth in order from outside layer to inside layer.
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The crust and the upper mantle together form what mechanical layer
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Earth is divided into 3 compositional and 5 mechanical layers. Compositional layers based on what they are made up of. What are mechanical layers based on?
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What increases as you travel closer to Earth's center?
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What is the densest and hottest layer of the earth?
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The lithosphere includes the continental plates and the oceanic and continental crust that move slowly over the putty like layer beneath. What is that layer called?
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What type of rock is formed from the rapid cooling of lava on the surface of the earth?
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What type of rock is formed from the slow cooling of magma underground?
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What types of rock are formed underground, beneath the surface of the earth?
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The rock shown formed deep under the surface of the Earth, has long ribbon-like layers, and has growths of crystals on the surface. What type of rock is it?
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The rock shown below formed so quickly on Earth’s surface when lava erupted from a volcano that it has no crystals and is full of small holes where air gas bubbles have been trapped. What type of rock is it?
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The rock shown below formed from small bits of sand, rock and shell that settled into layered rock over a very long period of time and can easily break up and crumble. What type of rock is it?
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What type of rock is formed from the compaction and cementation of sediments?
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What type of rock is formed by the cooling and solidification of lava or magma?
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What type of rock is formed by intense heat and pressure?
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The breaking apart of rock into sediment is known as-
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The transporting of sediment is known as-
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The dropping off or build up of sediment is known as-
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What is it called when rock is broken down by a process that changes the chemical composition.
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What type of rock are the ones shown below?
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What type of rock are the ones shown below?
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What type of rock are the ones shown below?
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Joey went on a school field trip to see the San Andreas fault line where the Pacific Plate meets the American Plate. While he was there he found a very hard rock with uneven layers that were coarse and grainy. What type of rock did he find?
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Susie's aunt sent her a cool rock that she found on the beach in Australia. The rock had bits of shells and even had the fossil of a small fish. What type of rock is it?
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While hiking near Mt. Saint Helens in Washington, Abbie fell and skinned her knee on some dark black rocks that were very light weight and filled with air holes. What type of rock did she fall on?
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Which of the following is an example of physical weathering caused by the freezing and thawing of water and ice?
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Which of the following is an example of physical weathering caused by the roots of plants growing through rocks?
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Which of the following is an example of chemical weathering caused by the exposure of iron to oxygen?
