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1
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What was the attempt of the experiments performed by the Large Collider

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produce more energetic particle collisions

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Sweetened tea is an example of what

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Mixtures

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3
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Boiling is a form of what

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Vaporization

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What tool should you use to find the weight of an object

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A scale

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Liters, cubic inches, quarts, and millimeters are all measures of what

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volume

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Coal is formed from deep layers of plant material that were under a lot of pressure and over time became rock-like. What type of force is this an example

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Compression

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What force is responsible for the grinding and wearing away of rock as a glacier moves over it

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friction

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Which force is significant in producing a snow avalanche

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Gravity

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9
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The force exerted by stalactite on the roof of the cave where it hangs is an example of what

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Tension

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10
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What force is probably the most important to a eologist

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Gravity

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11
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What is operationally defined as the ability to do work

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energy

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12
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What must an object be doing in order to have kinetic energy

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Moving

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13
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In order for an objet to have potential energy, what must it have

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A force

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14
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What type of energy does the sun release (there may be more than 1)

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Thermal energy, light energy, and nuclear energy

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Heat is defined of the flow of this type of energy from a hot place to a cooloer place

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Thermal energy

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These types of sounds are caused by vibrations that are too slow for the human ear to detect

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Infrasonic sounds

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17
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what particles are found in an atom

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Protons and neutrons

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18
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Water is an example of this

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A compound

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Dissolving, polishing, and evaporation are all an example of this type of change

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Physical change

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Lightning striking a spruce tree and starting a fire is an example of this type of change

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Chemical changes

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According to this theory, the days of Creation were not literal 24 hour periods.

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Day-Age Theory

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If you measuredan object and found it contained 38 g of matter, you have determined its what

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mass

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23
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This is operationally defined as a push or a pull

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A force

24
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Your weight is directly linked to the field force known as this

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Gravity

25
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If a force is applied to an object in the same direction as it moves through a distance, this has been preformed

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Work

26
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This term is used to describe the height of a wave

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Amplitude sounds

27
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The surface of a pong becomes solid enough to hold skaters in the winter

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Freezing

28
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Butter liquifies when put in a hot pan

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Melting

29
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Droplets of water form on the outside of a chilled drink

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Condensation

30
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Gasoline disappears from an open can left in the sun

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Vaporization

31
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Ice cubes shrink while in the freezer

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Sublimation

32
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It may be ultrasonic or infrasonic

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Sound energy

33
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It is released when an atom is split

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Nuclear energy

34
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It is produced by any source of heating

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Thermal energy

35
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It may be ultraviolet or other invisible forms

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Light energy

36
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The ability to do work with electrical charges

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Electrical energy

37
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It results from moving charges that attract or repel

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Magnetic energy

38
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It may become another type of energy during a chemical charge

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Chemical energy

39
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A neutral atom becomes this when it gains or loses one or more electrons.

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Ion

40
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In fission, an atom’s nucleus splits into two smaller what?

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Nuclei

41
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This theory cannot give a good explanation for the existence of galaxies

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Big bang theory

42
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This indirectly measures how fast a substance’s particles are moving

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Thermometers

43
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What type of changes causes one pure substance to become one or more different pure substances

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Chemical change

44
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Molten steel becomes this at its boiling point

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Liquid or molten

45
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In this state, particles move so fast and collide so hard that they break apart and become electrically charged

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Plasma state

46
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Evaporation is a type of this

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Vaporization

47
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Your mass would be this (more or less) on the moon than on the earth

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Stays the same

48
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All forces act in what

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Pairs

49
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Physicists have not been able to find this, but are hoping the Large Hadron Collider will produce the super massive particle that make this

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Dark Matter

50
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Potential energy can be converted into this kind of energy

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Kinetic energy

51
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Matter and enegy can neither be ________ or __________

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Created; Destroyed

52
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In what state of matter, do the particles become electrially charged

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Plasma

53
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What is a substance’s state of matter most directly affected by

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Temperature

54
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Infrared is what type of energy

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Light Energy

55
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Matter is defined as anything that does what

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occupies space

56
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Solid aluminum is what kind of substance

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pure substance

57
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The atomic number of an element tells you how many of these are in its nucleus

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Protons

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