Science Exam Flashcards
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What type of soil allows the most air and soil
sandy
What is the general term for water below the soil surface
groundwater
What are theminim caharcters that a design must have to function at all
criteria
What is a model of a design that will be used fo testing
prototype
Specific to general
inductive reasonig
Pedologist are going to study?
soil
What is the term for a nurisging substance?
nutrients
The upward movement of water through tiny space
capilarity
What do we call a conclusion based on reasoning?
inference
How tily packed matter is?
density
A substance composd of one atom
element
A term for amount of matter in a object?
Mass
The substance of the physical world
matter
What variable changes when testing hypoth
independent var
Factors remain the same in an experiment?
controlled variable
hypothetical proposition
Study of matter
science
What is going to affect soil color most
Amount of organic material
impermeable
The plastice rock on which tectonic plates float
Asthenosphere
The general name for a mass of underground volcanic rock
igneous intrusion
hat major type of fault shoved over rocks on other side
Thrust fault
Wha type of fold buckle to form arch
anticline
Wht is a bowl shaped hollow fromed by the collapse of an underground magma chamber
caldera
What is the area betwen the upper and lower mantle
Transition Zone
The fracture zone between stationary an
fault
What is the boundary line between the crust and the mantle
Moho
What i th eida that rocks on either side of a fault
Elastice Rebound
Wha is a computer system that stores and process geographic data from various sources
(GIS) Georgraphic Informtion System
A volcano that consists primarily of erupted volcanic ash and rock fragment held loosely together
Cinder-cone volcano
A volcano formed
Composite volcano
Majority of the earths earthquakes happen in which belt
Circum pacific
The scal ethat is considered the most reliable methos for meausuring the energy relesed by an earthquake
moment magnitude
the scale used to measure the damage an earthquake does?
Modified Mercalli
