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What is the study of living organisms and their environments called?
Ecology
What do you call the process in which living organisms produce offspring of the same kind?
Reproduction
What is the study of the Earth's physical structure, history, and the processes that shape it called?
Geology
What is the outermost layer of the Earth's surface called?
Crust
What do you call the process of breaking down rocks, soil, and minerals through contact with the Earth's atmosphere, water, and biological organisms?
Weathering
What is the process by which plants use sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to produce glucose and oxygen?
Photosynthesis
What is the thin layer of gases that surround the Earth called?
Atmosphere
What is the process of rocks or sediments being moved from one place to another by wind, water, or ice called?
Erosion
What is the process of turning a solid directly into a gas called?
Sublimation
What is the branch of biology that studies the classification and characteristics of organisms called?
Taxonomy
What is the theory that explains how the Earth's tectonic plates move and interact called?
Plate tectonics
What is the term for the movement of water between the Earth's surface and the atmosphere through evaporation and condensation?
Water cycle
What is the process of converting nitrogen gas into compounds that can be used by plants called?
Nitrogen fixation
What is the study of the Earth's atmosphere, weather, and climate called?
Meteorology
What is the process by which rocks are formed from pre-existing rocks through heat and pressure called?
Metamorphism
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Which process breaks down rocks, soil, and minerals through contact with the Earth's atmosphere, water, and biological organisms?
Erosion
Photosynthesis
Weathering
Metamorphism
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What is the outermost layer of the Earth's surface called?
Mantle
Core
Crust
Atmosphere
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What is the process by which plants use sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to produce glucose and oxygen?
Reproduction
Erosion
Photosynthesis
Metamorphism
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What do you call the study of the Earth's physical structure, history, and the processes that shape it?
Ecology
Geology
Atmosphere
Taxonomy
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What is the term for the movement of water between the Earth's surface and the atmosphere through evaporation and condensation?
Sublimation
Nitrogen fixation
Water cycle
Plate tectonics
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What is the process of rocks or sediments being moved from one place to another by wind, water, or ice?
Metamorphism
Taxonomy
Erosion
Sublimation
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What is the study of living organisms and their environments called?
Reproduction
Geology
Ecology
Meteorology
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What is the process of turning a solid directly into a gas called?
Crust
Photosynthesis
Sublimation
Weathering
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What is the branch of biology that studies the classification and characteristics of organisms called?
Plate tectonics
Metamorphism
Taxonomy
Ecology
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What is the study of the Earth's atmosphere, weather, and climate called?
Water cycle
Meteorology
Geology
Nitrogen fixation
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