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What is the first step of scientific inquiry?
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analyze results
hypothesize and predict
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test hypothesis
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What is the second step of scientific inquiry?
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draw conclusions
test hypothesis
hypothesize and predict
ask questions
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What is the first step of scientific inquiry?
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What is the second step of scientific inquiry?
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What is the third step of scientific inquiry?
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What is the fourth step of scientific inquiry?
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What is the fifth step of scientific inquiry?
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What is the six and final step of scientific inquiry?
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Why is critical thinking important to scientific inquiry?
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Why is skepticism important to scientific inquiry?
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Is a hypothesis is a possible explanation about an observation that can be tested by scientific investigations?
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When a hypothesis or a group of hypothesis has been tested over and over and has not been supported by scientific investigations, can the hypothesis become a scientific theory?
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Is a scientific theory is an explanation of observations or events that is based on knowledge gained from many observations and investigations?
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Do scientists hardly question scientific theories and test them for validity?
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Is a scientific theory generally accepted as false until it is proved?
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Does the theory of plate tectonics explain how Earth's core moves and why earthquakes and volcanoes occur?
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The outermost Earth system is made of water.
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The most common gas in the atmosphere is oxygen.
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About 79% of Earth's freshwater is contained in the cryosphere.
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The atmosphere and the hydrosphere overlap.
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From outside to inside, the layers of Earth are the crust, the mantle, and the core.
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The solid inner core of the Earth is made up of solid platinum.
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Weather is the average weather pattern for a region over a long period of time.
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What happens to the atmosphere as you move from space toward Earth's surface?
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What gas makes up about 78% of the atmosphere?
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Where is the ozone layer found?
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Where is ground water stored?
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Which of Earth's systems includes rock?
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If you were studying the amount of pollution in a certain volume or air, which Earth systems would you be studying?
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Which of Earth's systems contains maple trees?
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Bobby was comparing the amount of salt dissolved in ocean water to the amount dissolved in water form the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Which Earth system is he interested in?
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Water vapor is released by plants through their leaves. This process is called _________?
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What is melted rock under Earth's surface called?
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Mid-ocean ridges are formed along lines where two plates diverge under water.
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Erosion occurs when water or wind slows down and drops the materials it has been carrying.
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Over time, volcanoes broke apart the super-continent Pangea.
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The magnitude of an earthquake can range from less than one to at least 20.
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Erosion occurs when weathered material is moved from one place to another.
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Melted rock below Earth's surface is called lava.
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Volcanoes can form quickly unlike mountains.
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Volcanoes only erupt in oceans.
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What boundary is represent in the picture?
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What boundary is represent in the picture?
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What boundary is represent in the picture?
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When a fault ruptures, what happens?
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Convergent plate boundaries may have ________.
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What is forced down into the mantle in a subduction zone?
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When plates pull apart under the ocean, hot mantel rock pushes up and forms what?
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What is the major force behind mass wasting?
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The size of an earthquake is determined by how much what is released?
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A fracture in the crust of a plate is a what?
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What forms along plate boundaries directly above the plates that subduct?
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When a volcano erupts, what can be blown high into the atmosphere?
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The mid-ocean ridge in the Atlantic Ocean begins at the what and ends nearly at the South Pole?
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Fossil fuels are a renewable resource.
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Geothermal energy is nonrenewable.
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Uranium, used in nuclear reactions, is a nonrenewable energy resource.
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Vampire energy is the energy used by electronics and appliances that are turned off but left plugged in.
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Land is a natural resource because it is used by living things to meet their needs.
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Reforestation is the cutting of large areas of forests for human activities.
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Fresh water makes up 97% of all water on Earth.
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Which of the following is a fossil fuel?
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What form of energy is in fossil fuels?
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Which of the following is a nonrenewable energy resource?
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Which of the following is not a nonrenewable energy resource?
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Energy released from atomic actions is called what?
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Waste materials from nuclear power plants __________.
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A wind turbine is most like a ______.
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Geothermal energy comes from _____________.
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Which is not an example of land as a resource?
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What effect does recycling have on land resources?
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Which of the following causes air pollution?
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What is a brownish haze produces when nitrogen compounds and other pollutants in the air react in the presence of sunlight?
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Which is not a result of acid precipitation?
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What does dichotomous mean?
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What is a tool used to classify living thing by observable characteristics?
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All living things have six common characteristics.
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Organisms that convert light energy to usable energy are called autotrophs.
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Dichotomous keys help classify organisms by asking questions that lead to the next step in the classification system.
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About 20% of the inside of a cell is water.
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All organisms need what to survive?
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The smallest unit of life is the ________.
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What transports materials within a cell and between cells?
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If two organisms have the same genus, they are _________.
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The group larger than an Order but smaller than a Kingdom is what?
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Groups of cells that work together to perform a certain function are called _________?
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A change in the environment is a __________.
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What is a habitat?
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About how long have scientists used microscopes to look at cells?
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Which of the following is not one of the four macromolecules that make up cells?
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What do eukaryotic cells have the prokaryotic cells do not have?
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Which type of cell has the biggest vacuoles?
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What is the difference between a cell wall and a cell membrane?
