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Nature of Science Unit
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Question 1
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A student is asked to make a quantitative observation of the ant shown . Which of the following students do you think is correct?
Student A: “The ant is black.”
Student B: “The ant has 6 legs and 2 antennae.”
Student C: “The ant is about 3 cm long.”
Student D: “The ant has a long, thin body.”
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Question 2
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The ruler above does not show the units. Assuming the student is using an appropriate scientific tool, what unit should the length be measured in?
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Question 3
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What tool is used to measure Volume?
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Question 4
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Find the volume of the box below. You may use a calculator, make sure to round correctly.
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Question 5
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A student is investigating how the side of a penny will affect the number of drops the penny will hold. What is the independent variable in this experiment Data?
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Question 6
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A lab team was counting the amount of drops of water that could fit on a penny. Their hypothesis is shown below. Which of the following would be the best to complete their hypothesis?
If the penny is covered with oil, then the number of drops the penny can hold will __________ because __________.
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Question 7
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A lab group is counting the amount of drops that can be held by a penny without over flowing and falling off the penny. The group decides to test the following things: a clean penny, a penny covered with soap, and a penny covered with oil.
What the group did to the surface of the penny is the __________ Variable.
The number of drops the penny will hold in the __________ variable
The penny they use is a __________
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Question 8
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What is the purpose of a comparative investigation?
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Question 9
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A student finds an unknown piece of metal and decides to use density to determine its identity. The metal has a volume of 3 cm³ and a mass of 27g. The Density of the metal is __________. The identity of the metal is __________
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Question 10
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A block of aluminum with a mass of 20g is used to make a bolt. If the bolt has half the mass of the original block what is the density of the bolt?
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Question 11
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Which of the following statements would be the best qualitative observation the sketcher could include?
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Question 12
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What was the scientific question this experiment trying to answer?
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Question 13
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What was the Independent variable in this investigation?
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Question 14
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What was a constant in this investigation?
Hydrsphere Unit
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Question 15
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Which one of the following best depicts the shape and structure of a water molecule?
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Question 16
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The polarity of water is caused by an uneven sharing of ___________.
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Question 17
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What is Cohesion?
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Question 18
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What type of bond exists between molecules of water (shown with the dotted lines in the diagram below)?
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Question 19
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What is Adhesion?
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Question 20
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The polarity of a water molecule can be described as which of the following?
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Question 21
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What part of the water molecule has a positive charge?
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Question 22
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What properties of water allow the water to dome up on top of the penny?
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Question 23
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Which property of water allows it to break down other substances so well?
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Question 24
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The substance in a solution (usually a liquid) that does the dissolving is the __________The Substance that is being dissolved is the __________
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Question 25
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What is the most probable explanation for this trend in the data?
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Question 26
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Does the tree ring reconstruction accurately reflects the amount of flow measured from 1905-2005?
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Question 27
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Based on the outflow from lake Powell does the lower basin of the Colorado river receive their full Compact Stata allocation?
Chemistry Unit
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Question 28
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What is Matter?
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Question 29
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What is the smallest piece of a Compound (2 or more elements chemically combined) that still has the properties of that compound?
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Question 30
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A substance that cannot be decomposed (broken down) into other substances by chemical methods.
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Question 31
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A mixture that has the same characteristics throughout, and can be separated by physical properties. Example Soda
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Question 32
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The temperature that a liquid changes to a gas.
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Question 33
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Why is a gold bar a pure substance?
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Question 34
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Which best identifies the image?
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Question 35
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There are __________ protons in the diagram.
There are __________ neutrons shown in the diagram.
There are __________ electrons shown in the diagram
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Question 36
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What is the name of the element? (Use the periodic table to answer this question)
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Question 37
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Which particle has a negative charge?
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Question 38
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Which particle has no charge and is neutral?
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Question 39
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Which particles are found in the nucleus of an atom?
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Question 40
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What is the Periodic Table?
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Question 41
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What is the atomic number of Phosphorus?
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Question 42
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What is the atomic mass of an element?
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Question 43
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What is the atomic mass of Phosphorus?
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Question 44
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What are chemical properties?
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Question 45
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Why are valence electrons important?
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Question 46
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How do covalent bonds form?
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Question 47
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What is the law of conservation of matter?
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Question 48
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Which of the following is the correct Lewis dot structure for Carbon? Remember Lewis dot structures show valence electrons.