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| 12479665401 | Interrelatedness | anything is connected to everything | 0 | |
| 12479670292 | ecosystem | what happens in an environment, how the organisms cooperate | 1 | |
| 12479682527 | troposphere | layer closest to earth's surface, the greenhouse effect, where weather appears | 2 | |
| 12479734808 | stratosphere | The second-lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere. Ozone layer, shielding the sun. also where planes fly | 3 | |
| 12479787881 | thermosphere | 4th layer. Hot and receives energy from the sun | 4 | |
| 12479796175 | exosphere | The outer layer of the thermosphere, extending outward into space. made of light gases- helium, hydrogen, and oxygen | 5 | |
| 12479809847 | mesosphere | 3rd layer. cold and slows meteors where they burn up | 6 | |
| 12479822387 | subduction zone | oceanic plate is sliding under a continental plate. forming volcanoes. coastal range | 7 | |
| 12479833788 | fault | crack in earth's crust from plates rubbing against each other "San Andreas" | 8 | |
| 12479842445 | convergence | collision of plates, creating tall mountains | 9 | |
| 12479893759 | divergence | pulling apart, mid-ocean rifts | 10 | |
| 12479955936 | Ecosystem | what happens in an environment | 11 | |
| 12479957266 | Abiotic | nonliving part of ecosystem | 12 | |
| 12480136794 | biotic | living parts of an ecosystem | 13 | |
| 12480138802 | niche | An organism's particular role in an ecosystem, or how it makes its living. | 14 | |
| 12495003974 | gene | what determines characteristics, DNA | 15 | |
| 12495008522 | population | all the organisms of the same kind | 16 | |
| 12495012930 | species | population of all organisms capable of reproducing | 17 | |
| 12495041093 | natural selection | A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment. | 18 | |
| 12495045362 | evolution | Change in a kind of organism over time due to natural selection | 19 | |
| 12495095412 | excessive reproduction | producing more than wanted because of death | 20 | |
| 12495107185 | speciation | the production of new species from previously existing species | 21 | |
| 12495112766 | Coevolution | Process by which two species evolve in response to changes in each other | 22 | |
| 12539483282 | How is Earth different from other planets? | liquid water, plate tectonics, protection from sun rays, life is abundant, oxygen rich | 23 | |
| 12539500575 | latitude | how far north or south. 0 = equator | 24 | |
| 12539525824 | longitude | how far east or west. 0= london | 25 | |
| 12539531526 | convection current | hot air rises and eventually comes down | 26 | |
| 12539575352 | tectonic plates | Sections of the Earth's crust that move due to convection currents. made of solid rock, continental and oceanic lithosphere | 27 | |
| 12539590041 | layers of earths atmosphere | troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere | 28 | |
| 12539610058 | why are the layers of the atmosphere divided the way they are? | they are sectioned by temperature. drops, rises, and so on | 29 | |
| 12539615680 | greenhouse effect | in the troposphere, it keeps the earth's surface warm and able to sustain life | 30 | |
| 12539625641 | tropopause | between troposphere and stratosphere. it is a cold trap, we wouldn't have water without it | 31 | |
| 12539684264 | ozone layer | in the stratosphere, it is a protective layer against harmful sunlight | 32 | |
| 12539693191 | key steps of scientific method | careful observation, asking questions about observed events, construction and testing of hypothesis, openness to new info, willingness to submit new ideas to the scrutiny of others | 33 | |
| 12539711977 | difference between a hypothesis and theory | a hypothesis is a suggested explanation to a question. a theory is a plausible generalization about fundamental concepts | 34 | |
| 12539723418 | dew point | The temperature at which condensation begins | 35 | |
| 12539733454 | Hadley Cell | between the 0 and 30 degrees.hot air rises up at equator, flows toward the poles, hitting the dew point and makes its way back to the equator in a circular motion. | 36 | |
| 12539750774 | weather at 30 n or s | hot and dry | 37 | |
| 12539754311 | weather at 60 n or s | cold and wet | 38 | |
| 12539762112 | how did early sailors use global winds | they used the trade winds that blow toward the equator, making journey much faster | 39 | |
| 12539773050 | global winds | winds that blow over long distances | 40 | |
| 12539786165 | why were sailors afraid of the equator and 30 degree? what were their nicknames? | doldrums and horse latitudes. They had high pressure, calm winds, not enough power to push them | 41 | |
| 12539798412 | why is california weather special and what are places with similar weather? | warm dry summer and cold wet winters. we grow a lot of crops. lisbon portugal and dalian china | 42 | |
| 12539805141 | environment | the surroundings or place that organisms live in | 43 | |
| 12539816622 | 5 major types of organism interaction | predation, competition, parasitism, mutualism, commensalism | 44 | |
| 12539846869 | niches | producer, consumer, secondary consumer, decomposer | 45 | |
| 12539865260 | trophic level | position in a food chain, the higher,the less energy | 46 | |
| 12539929553 | controlled experiment | experiment where one variable is changed | 47 |
