unit 2

Question 1

The process of living organisms staying the same is

Answer 1

homeostasis

Question 2

Sunlight enters the atmosphere as

Answer 2

radiation

Question 3

The high___of water means that communities that live by the coast have a more moderate climate than those further inland

Answer 3

heat capacity

Question 4

Heat is transferred through objects directly touching is ____ In _____ , heat is transferred due to unequal heating and cooling

Answer 4

conduction and convection

Question 5

Ocean current created when surface water is blown away by the wind and the deep colder water rises to replace it is called upwelling

Question 6

The lithosphere encompasses the crust and the upper portion of the mantle

Question 7

The layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs is the troposphere Gyres are circular surface ocean currents caused by global wind patterns

Question 8

Ozone molecules help protect the earth from ultraviolet radiation

Question 9

The core is responsible for earth’s magnetic field

Question 10

Ice has a higher albedo than liquid water

Question 11

The ecosystem is all the living things interacting with one another and all the nonliving elements.

Question 12

Wind and water are the main causes of erosion

Question 13

A fault line is a break in the earth’s crust where blocks of the crust are sliding by each other

Question 14

Magma is hot molten rock

Question 15

The study of the movement of earth’s plates is called plate tectonics

Question 16

Condensation is the process of gas vapor changing into the liquid phase

Question 17

The process of liquid water changing into water vapor is evaporation

Question 18

Ground water is water that is stored under the earth’s surface

Question 19

Percolation is the downward movement of water below the surface of the earth

Question 20

Permafrost is when ground or soil remains frozen throughout the year

Question 21

A closed system in which the output goes back to increase the input, which then increases the output is a positive feedback loop.

Question 22

Water that falls from clouds as either a liquid or solid is precipitation

Question 23

Water that falls on the earth’s surface, flows, and does not infitrate into the ground is runoff Transpiration is a plant process that releases water into the atmosphere An organism that is able to create its own energy is called an autotroph The cell is the basic unit of life

Question 24

Climate is the average atmospheric conditions over a long period of time A Eukaryotic cell is one that has a nucleus to store genetic information

Question 25

An organism is an individual iving thies to eat another organism to obtain its energy

Question 26

An organism is an individual living thịng

Question 27

An organism is an individual living thịng

Question 28

Atmospheric conditions over a short period of time is called weather

Question 29

A prokaryotic cell is a simple cell that does not have a nucleus

Question 30

A glacier is a slow-moving river of ice