Science Finals

4. The hypothesis that continents have slowly moved to their current locations is called
5. The stratosphere contains the
8. Plates move apart at
9. Water evaporates from oceans and lakes and rises into Earth's atmosphere as
10. List the 3 ways in which movement of two blocks of rock along a fault causes an
15. The point in Earth's interior where the energy release of an earthquake occurs is compositionaltitudetemperature List the 3 things that distinguish atmospheric layers.
17. are the first to reach a seismograph after an earthquake
18. The troposphere is the layer of the atmosphere
20. to occur
21. A vast, underwater mountain chain is called a

1. is a measure of the amount of water vapor that air is holding compared to the amount needed for saturation at a specific temperature.
2. List the three things necessary for photosynthesis.
3. Water freezes at
6. The process of liquid changing to a gas at the surface of the liquid is called
7. The boundary between cold and warm air masses is called
11. is used to measure temperature.
12. Most of the freshwater on Earth is found in
13. When a scientist has tested her hypothesis, the next step in scientific inquiry is to
14. What process takes rock to the inside of Earth
16. List the 7 steps of the scientific method in order
19. A scientific law describes a