Exam 8: Science

Which of the following is an example of a primary producer in the ecosystem?

What type of rock is sand?

Where does most of the energy used in the United States come from?

What type of energy is the energy of motion?

The increased temperature of particles in a material is:

What is the name of the unit that scientists use to measure force?

What is the term used to describe the attraction between magnetic poles?

What is the product of a large static discharge traveling between two objects in the air?

Regarding plate tectonics, which of the following types of boundaries describe an actively deforming region in which multiple plates collide with each other?

In the periodic table of elements, how are groups organized?

What is the term for the layer of earth above the core?

Which of the following is not a phase of mitosis?

Which of the following describes the study of paleontology?

Which method of cell replication is the simple duplication of a cell and all of its parts?

Which of the following is the buildup of excess electric charge?

Of the seven divisions of scientific classification of living things (or taxonomy), which of the following is broadest?

Which of the following terms is defined as the relative certainty or uncertainty that individuals can assign to selected events happening in a specified space or time?

Which of the following is NOT an example of a simple machine?

During times of the year when the North Pole is tilted toward the sun, what is most likely to happen?

What is the disproven theory that suggested that living things came from non-living things?