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Figure 11-1
1. Examine Figure 11-1. If you were standing under the tree, which object would appear to be moving?
3. One kilometer equals 1000 meters. What does the prefix kilo- mean?
4. What is the most appropriate SI unit to express the speed of a cyclist in the last leg of a 10-km race?
8. A distance-time graph indicates that an object moves 200 m in 8 s and then remains at rest for 1 s. What is the average
speed of the object?
10. An object moving at 30 m/s takes 5 s to come to a stop. What is the object’s acceleration?
12. A train approaching a crossing changes speed from 50 m/s to 10 m/s in 340 s. How can the train’s acceleration be
described?
16. When a pair of balanced forces acts on an object, what is the net force that results?
18. As you push a cereal box across a tabletop, the sliding friction acting on the cereal box does what?
21. According to Newton’s second law of motion, the acceleration of an object equals the net force acting on the object
divided by the object’s
31. Why is the efficiency of a machine is always less than 100 percent?
39. A series of processes in which rocks are continuously changed from one type to another is called
40. What is the hypothesis that the continents move slowly over Earth’s surface and once were joined into one
supercontinent called?
42. Plates slide pass each other, and crust is neither created nor destroyed at a
49. In the water cycle, the process that changes a liquid into a gas is called
51. A permeable layer of rock that is saturated with water is called a(an)
52. Tilted telephone poles and fences curving in a downward direction on a hillside are evidence of
53. Meanders, V-shaped valleys, and oxbow lakes are all features formed by
56. Why do most ocean organisms live above a water depth of 500 meters?
57. What type of ocean current brings cold water from the deep ocean to the surface?
59. Geologists could use which of the following to compare the age of sedimentary rock layers in Bryce Canyon with
sedimentary rock layers in the Grand Canyon?
61. As altitude increases, what happens to pressure and density of the atmosphere
64. As Earth completes one orbit around the sun, it has completed one _____________ and one ____________
65. Which regions usually has temperatures cooler than temperatures near the equator?
66. Lists all the zones in the correct order, starting at the North Pole and ending at the South Pole?
67. The daily breezes that occur in a city that is located near a large body of water are examples of
71. What type of front forms when two unlike air masses form a boundary but neither is moving?
73. A tropical storm with sustained winds of at least 119 kilometers per hour is called a
74. A small, intense storm formed when a vertical cylinder of rotating air develops is a
Figure 24-1
84. A rapid mass movement of large amounts of rock and soil down a slope is called a