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A: The type of mixture that separates into 2 layers when left undisturbed. Flour-water is an example.

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A: The type of mixture that looks uniform throughout, such a sugar-water.

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Q: What is a homogenous mixture?(or, what is a solution?)

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A: The process used to separate solid particles from water particles, in a mixture like flour-water, where the solid is insoluble.

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Q: What is filtering?

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A: In a solution, it is the substance being dissolved.

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Q: What is a solute?

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A: The type of mixture that is “different throughout”, such as oil-water which forms 2 distinct layers.

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Q: What is a heterogeneous mixture?

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A: The number of seismograph stations needed to locate the epicenter of an earthquake.

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Q: What is three (3)?

http://mail.colonial.net/~hkaiter/earthquakes.html

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A: The type of plate boundary where two tectonic plates are moving apart from one another.

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Q: What is a divergent boundary?

http://geology.com/nsta/divergent-plate-boundaries.shtml

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A: The type of crust that will subduct when continental and oceanic crust come together.

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Q: What is oceanic?

http://www.platetectonics.com/book/page_12.asp

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A: The type of volcano that has smooth, flowing eruptions and gently sloping sides.

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Q: What is a shield volcano?

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/images/pglossary/ShieldVolcano.php

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A: The type of rock that is formed when an existing rock is exposed to great amounts of heat and/or pressure.

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Q: What is a metamorphic rock?

http://www.minimegeology.com/home/mgeo/page_77_22/slate_metamorphic_rock.html

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contains ozone.

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Q: What is the stratosphere?

http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/atmospheric/weather3.htm

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A: The temperature will do this as you move higher in the troposphere.

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Q: What is decrease?

http://www.wyckoffschools.org/eisenhower/teachers/chen/atmosphere/earthatmosphere.htm

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A: Towards the shore or away from the shore, the direction that coastal breezes blow in the afternoon.

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Q: What is towards the shore?

http://www.prh.noaa.gov/hnl/kids/activities.php

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A: The name of the situation that occurs when warm air near Earth’s surface becomes trapped beneath a layer of cool air; it often traps pollution in our valley

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Q: What is a temperature inversion?

http://www.windows2universe.org/milagro/air/transport.html

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A: Earth’s early atmosphere was considered to be composed of these two elements.

$500$500Q: What are hydrogen and helium?

http://www.crikey-adventure-tours.com/stromatolites.html

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energy from the system to the surroundings.

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Q: What is an exothermic reaction?

http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/chem30_05/1_energy/energy2_1.htm

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A: Plants give this off when they photosynthesize.

$200$200Q: What is oxygen?

http://myweb.cwpost.liu.edu/vdivener/notes/solid-liquid-gas.htm

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A: Combustion from fossil fuel-burning engines adds this carbon-compound to the atmosphere.

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Q: What is carbon dioxide (CO2)?

http://boomeria.org/grades/demos/methane.html

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A: Water evaporates from plants during this process of the water cycle.

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Q: What is transpiration?

http://keep3.sjfc.edu/students/amm03205/e-port/Transp.html

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A: These are buried deep beneath earth’s crust forming coal, oil and gas.

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Q: What are fossil fuels?

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A: As more carbon dioxide is released into the air heat is trapped, causing this effect.

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Q: What is the greenhouse effect?

https://marchantscience.wikispaces.com/envikt

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A: Between the inner and outer planets, the ones that are gaseous.

http://www.universetoday.com/15451/the-solar-system/

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A: What are the outer planets?

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A: The tectonic plates are made out of this; it is composed of the crust and upper layer of the mantle.

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Q: What is the lithosphere?

http://astronomyonline.org/SolarSystem/EarthGeography.asp

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A: The type of galaxy known as the Milky Way.

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Q: What is a spiral?

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that is produced by plants during photosynthesis and then used in respiration.

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Q: What is glucose (C6H12O6)?

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A: The Sun will becomes this type of star in the next phase of its life cycle.

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Q: What is a red giant?

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=359

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A: Light travels so fast that it reaches Earth in

seconds, minutes, or hours?

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Q: What are minutes (8 minutes)?

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A: A star is “born” when these reactions begin in its core.

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Q: What are nuclear fusion reactions?

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$400 if she can name the unit of distance often used in astronomy.

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Q: What is a light year?

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A: This was the evidence Hubble discovered that led to his conclusion that the universe is expanding.

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Q: What is red shift?