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_______ includes the distance between the starting and ending points and the direction
Displacement
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______ is the distance traveled divided by the time taken to travel the distance
speed
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The ______ of an object is the speed of the object and direction of its motion
velocity
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____ is the change in velocity divided by the time it takes for the change to occur
acceleration
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Something is in _____ if it’s changing position
motion
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Motion is not always along a straight line
true
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The tendency of an object to resist a change in its motion
inertia
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The ______ of an object is a measure of how hard it is to stop the object
momentum
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Momentum and ______ have a direction
velocity
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Objects with more mass way more than objects with less mass
true
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A ______ wave causes particles to move back and forth along the same direction in which the wave travels
longitudinal
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A _____ wave causes particles to move back and forth at right angles to the direction in which the wave travels
transverse
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The amount of energy that a wave carries past a certain area each second is the ____ of the sound
frequency
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The more energy, a Seismic wave has, the larger its _____ and the more damage they cause
amplitude
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An engineer in a moving train blows a train’s horn. The train is moving away from the person standing on the ground, compared to the frequency of the sound that the engineer hears, the person standing on the ground hears a sound with.
a lower frequency
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As you were standing on the sidewalk, a car passes by honking its horn. You noticed the pitch of the horn changes as it passes by. You know the reason is.
the doppler effect
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Sound echoes in a large room because of
reflection of sound waves
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As a jet flies overhead, you notice it has a very high-pitched sound. After it passes by, the pitch gets much lower. Why?
the doppler effect
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Some troubles out of a classroom door and down the hall because of the
diffraction of sound waves
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A telephone receives radio signals with a very low strength. Which of the following are designed to amplify the signals?
transistors
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Which electromagnetic wave frequencies are between infrared and ultraviolet wave frequencies?
visible light
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Exposure to gamma waves would be deadly to humans
true
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On the electromagnetic spectrum, as the wavelength gets shorter, the energy level
increases
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Providing a pathway to drain excess charge into earth is called
grounding
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All charged objects exert a ____ on each other
electric force
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Materials that are ____ contain electrons that can move easily in the material
conductors
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A material in which electrons cannot move easily from place to place is called a
insulator
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Increasing an objects, electrical charge increases its
electric field
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Transistors may be used to _____ voltage in a circuit
increase
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____ are used to weaken the current
resistors
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A _____ Circuit is a circuit that has only one path for the electrical current to follow
series
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Placing transistor in a circuit will increase the resistance in the circuit
false
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A transistor circuit is used as an amplifier. When a signal is applied to the input of the transistor, the output signal is
a larger amplitude
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In a magnetic field, the field lines that curve away from each other show
repulsion
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Where the magnetic field lines are close together, the field is
strongest
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A magnetic force can be exerted even when the objects are not touching
true
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The stronger than magnet, the larger its magnetic
both force and field
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Two north or two south poles ____ each other
repel
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Spinning a copper coil between two magnets will create a current in the copper
true
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When a wire is not connected to a current source, current may be created through the actions of
moving the wire through magnets
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The movement of magnets around a wire loop create a current is called
oscillation
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In the early 1900s, Alfred Wagner suggested the idea of continental drift. Which later theory explains his hypothesis?
theory of plate tectonics
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A rift valley is evidence of which kind of plate boundary?
divergent
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Which of the following is most responsible for the formation of a new crust at the edge of a tectonic plate
subduction of one oceanic plate under another at a convergent boundary
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An ocean floor trench is most closely associated with which of the following
a convergent plate boundary
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Which type of volcano would be the least explosive?
shield volcano
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The richer scale measures, which of the following earthquake characteristics?
magnitude
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____ volcanoes are usually not the biggest or smallest in size
statovolcano
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The magnitude of an earthquake depends mostly on the
amplitude of the seismic wave
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Lava that contains more silica, tends to flow more
slowly
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What is the evidence of ancient life called?
fossil
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What are fossils called that were created from spaces left and rock when the body decayed?
casts
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The ages of fossils are measured in what denomination?
half-life
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In a radiometric dating, _____ lose their energy (radiation) overtime
isotopes
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Which principal states that the same earth processes that take place now also took place in the past?
uniformitarianism
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Paleontologist have been able to divide earth history based on
the life-forms that lived at that time
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Which is the shortest division of geological time?
epoch
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_____ is the longest part of earth’s history
precambrian time
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The moon’s rotation takes
27.3 days
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When the Earth blocks sunlight from hitting the moon, it is called a ___ eclipse
lunar
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The planet closet to the sun
mercury
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Which of the following planets is part of the inner, rocky planets?
mars
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What planet is the largest planet in the solar system?
jupiter
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This planet has an axis that spins on its side like a rolling ball
uranus
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Johannes Kepler found that planets travel at ____ speeds
different
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____ stars are hot, but not bright
white dwarfs
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____ stars are bright, but not hot
red giants
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Hertzprung and Russel created a graph to show the ____ , which contains hot, blue, bright stars in the upper left and cool, red, dim stars on the lower right.
main sequence
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From earth, a ____ looks like spots of light arranged in a particular shape against the dark night sky
constellation
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Areas of the sun surface that appear dark because they are cooler than surrounding areas are called
sunspots
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The space race began with the launch of _____ by the Russians
spuntnick
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The American rocket that took astronauts to the moon was called the
saturn V
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It was Apollo ___ that first landed on the moon
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