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Science Flashcards

Final Exam

1
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What is the basic part of all living things?

A

Cells

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2
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What is the largest group an organism can be classified into?

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Kingdom

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3
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Give an example of a Kingdom.

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plants, animals, fungi, protists and monerans

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4
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What is the jelly-like substance found in a cell?

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Cytoplasm

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5
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What carry water, food, or wastes into and out of a cell?

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Vacuoles

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6
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What’s the name of the organelle responsible for photosynthesis?

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Chloroplasts

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7
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What do chloroplasts contain?

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chlorophyll

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8
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What does photosynthesis create?

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sugar, water and oxygen

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9
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What is the substance within the chloroplasts that make photosynthesis possible?

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Chlorophyll

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10
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What part of the cell acts as the control center?

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nucleus

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11
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What breaks down food and releases energy?

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Mitochondria

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12
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What is the series of steps used to investigate something that occurs naturally?

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The scientific method

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13
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What do you call something that is changed from one experiment to another?

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a variable

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14
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What is a possible answer to the question you have called?

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hypothesis

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15
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Anything that has mass and volume is called?

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matter

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16
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The amount of space matter takes up is called?

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volume

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17
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What refers to how tightly pack matter is?

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density

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18
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How much matter something has is called?

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mass

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19
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All matter is made up of what?

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atoms

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20
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What are the smallest particles of an element that still have the properties of that element?

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atoms

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21
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What are positively charged particles?

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protons

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22
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In an atom, what has no charge?

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neutrons

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23
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What are negatively charged particles?

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electrons

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24
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Where are the protons and neutrons located?

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in the nucleus

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25
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Where are the electrons located?

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they travel in shells around the nucleus

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26
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What do atoms contain?

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protons, neutrons and electrons

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27
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What happens when there are more electrons than protons?

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The particle has a negative charge.

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28
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What happens when an atom loses electrons?

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It has a positive charge.

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29
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What happens when there are the same number of electrons and protons in an atom?

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The atom is neutral.

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30
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What forms when 2 or more atoms combine?

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Molecules

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31
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How are elements and molecules written?

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With the elemental abbreviation followed by a smaller number.

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32
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What does the smaller number of an elemental abbreviation represent?

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It tells how many atoms of the molecule are present.

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33
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What happens when no number is present in an elemental abbreviation?

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Only one atom is present

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34
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What elements does H2O represent?

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2 hydrogen and 1 oxygen

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35
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What are the simplest types of matter?

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elements

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36
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Can elements be broken down any further?

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No

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37
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What is the model called that arranges the elements?

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The periodic table

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38
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What is the difference between a physical change and a chemical change?

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Physical changes just changes the state of matter but with chemical changes a new substance is formed

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39
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Name 3 examples of a physical change.

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evaporation, condensation, melting, changes in shape, mixing together

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40
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Name 3 examples of a chemical change.

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precipitate, change color, give off heat, fizz

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41
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What are made of tightly packed, barely moving particles?

A

Solids

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42
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What are made of more loosely packed particles?

A

Liquids

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43
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What are spread out fast moving particles?

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Gases

44
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What is the slow change from a liquid to a gas?

A

Evaporation

45
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What is the change from a gas into a liquid?

A

Condensation

46
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What are substances that test sour and turn litmus paper red?

A

Acids

47
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What are substances that are slippery and turn litmus paper blue?

A

Bases

48
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What is the difference between a conductor and an insulator?

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A conductor allows energy to pass through it a insulator does not.

49
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Give an example of a conductor.

A

Metal for example copper, gold and silver

50
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Give an example of an insulator.

A

wood, plastic and ceramic

51
Q

What surrounds a wire carrying an electric current?

A

magnetic field

52
Q

What is a build-up of an electric charge on the surface of an object called?

A

static electricity

53
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What is it called when electrons suddenly move from one object to another? It includes lightening.

A

Electric discharge

54
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What is an electric circuit that produces a magnetic field?

A

Electromagnetism

55
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Give 3 ways that you can increase the force of an electromagnet.

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Adding more current, coiling the wire, and adding an iron rod through the coils

56
Q

What is the order of the plants from closest to the sun to furthest?

A

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

57
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What is the name of the dwarf planet?

A

Pluto

58
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What is a force that attracts any two objects, that increases with mass and proximity called?

A

Gravity

59
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In the solar system, spinning for 1 day is called?

A

rotation

60
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The orbit around the sun takes how long?

A

1 year

61
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What is the orbit around the sun called?

A

revolution

62
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The tendency of an object in motion to keep moving in a straight line unless acted on by another force, such as gravity is called?

A

inertia

63
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Which planets are solid and smaller?

A

4 inner planets

64
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Which planets are larger and made of gas?

A

4 outer planets

65
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What are the 4 outer planets known as?

A

Gas giants

66
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What is located between Mars and Jupiter?

A

Asteroid belt

67
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What is an object so massive and dense that even light cannot escape its gravitational pull?

A

black hole

68
Q

What is a huge collection of stars?

A

Galaxy

69
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What galaxy are we in?

A

Milky Way

70
Q

What includes all living and nonliving things in an environment?

A

ecosystem

71
Q

What factors are the living things in an environment?

A

Biotic factors

72
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What factors are nonliving?

A

Abiotic factors

73
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What is the relationship between 2 or more kinds of organisms that last over time?

A

Symbiosis

74
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What benefits both organisms in a symbiotic relationship?

A

Mutualism

75
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Name 2 examples of mutualism?

A

our microbiome of gut bacteria and us, honey bee and flower, and lichen-fungi and algae

76
Q

What benefits one organism while harming the other?

A

Parasitism

77
Q

Name 2 examples of Parasitism?

A

tapeworms and fleas

78
Q

What are animals that hunt other animals for food called?

A

Predators

79
Q

What are organisms that are eaten by other animals?

A

Prey

80
Q

What are you called if you only eat plants?

A

Herbivore

81
Q

What are you called if you eat mainly other animals?

A

Carnivore

82
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What are you called if you eat a mixture of plants and meat?

A

Omnivore

83
Q

What are you called if you breakdown dead or decaying plant or animal material, including fungi and bacteria?

A

Decomposers

84
Q

What is any resource that restricts growth of populations?

A

Limiting factor

85
Q

What is an adjustment to an animals behavior that allows it a better chance of survival?

A

Behavioral adaptations

86
Q

Name 2 examples of a behavioral adaptation.

A

wolves hunting in packs, migration, hibernation

87
Q

What are specific adjustments to internal or external body features?

A

Structural adaptations

88
Q

Name 2 examples of a structural adaptation.

A

animal camouflage, sharp teeth in carnivores or the thorns on a cactus

89
Q

Name the 4 types of roots.

A

tap, fibrous, prop and aerial

90
Q

Give an example of a tap root.

A

carrots

91
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Give an example of a fibrous root.

A

grass

92
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Give an example of a prop root.

A

mangroves

93
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Give an example of a aerial root.

A

orchids

94
Q

Plants that are vascular contain what two things?

A

vessels or hollow tubes

95
Q

Plants can be vascular or …?

A

nonvascular

96
Q

Vascular plants the produce cones are called?

A

gymnosperms

97
Q

Vascular plants that produce flowers are called?

A

angiosperm

98
Q

What is the continuous movement of water between Earth’s surface and air and back again?

A

Water cycle

99
Q

Liquid to gas is called?

A

Evaporation

100
Q

Gas to liquid is called?

A

Condensation

101
Q

What is any form of water falling to Earth’s surface called?

A

Precipitation

102
Q

What is one of Earth’s major land ecosystems with its own characteristic animals, plants, soil, and climate called?

A

Biomes

103
Q

What has 4 distinct seasons with a mix of hardwood and conifers?

A

Deciduous forest

104
Q

What is frozen and treeless?

A

Tundra

105
Q

What are prairies called?

A

Grasslands

106
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What are wet and warm year round?

A

Tropical rainforests

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