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- 2. The boundary between cold and warm air masses is called a front.
- 4. an experiment
- 5. carbon dioxide
- 7. and record
- 9. A scientific law describes a pattern in nature.
- 10. a hypothesis
- 13. The point in Earth's interior where the energy release of an earthquake occurs is the focus.
- 15. List the three things necessary for photosynthesis.
- 17. a problem
- 19. A vast, underwater mountain chain is called a mid ocean ridge.
- 20. The stratosphere contains the highest concentration of ozone.
- 21. Relative humidity is a measure of the amount of water vapor that air is holding compared to the amount needed for saturation at a specific temperature.
- 22. slip
- 23. The troposphere is the layer of the atmosphere nearest to Earth's surface.
- 24. What process takes rock to the inside of Earth? subduction
- 25. Plates move apart at divergent boundaries.
- 27. data
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- 1. water
- 2. Areas of low-pressure usually have cloudy weather.
- 3. Drift.
- 4. List the 7 steps of the scientific method in order R F D T O A D
- 6. List the 3 ways in which movement of two blocks of rock along a fault causes an
- 7. The hypothesis that continents have slowly moved to their current locations is called
- 8. to occur
- 11. Water freezes at 0 °C.
- 12. The thermometer is used to measure temperature.
- 14. a scientist has tested her hypothesis, the next step in scientific inquiry is to
- 16. Most of the freshwater on Earth is found in glaciers.
- 17. sun light
- 18. and record.
- 20. The process of liquid changing to a gas at the surface of the liquid is called evaporation.
- 21. The primary waves are the first to reach a seismograph after an earthquake.
- 22. Water evaporates from oceans and lakes and rises into Earth's atmosphere as water vapor.
- 23. List the 3 things that distinguish atmospheric layers.
- 24. conclusions
- 26. the hypothesis
