Online Activity - Final Exam - NATSC1

1. In Scientific terms, work is done when any object is moved a certain

distance (work = force x distance). And whenever you touch a hot
object such as stove, heat flows from the stove to your finger. This is
what we called _________________.

Energy

2. What is the type of Electromagnetic Radiation used in medicine for

killing cancer cells?

Gamma Rays 

3. When two objects at different temperatures contact one another,

heat flows from the warmer object to the cooler. What do we call this
another form of energy?

Heat 

4. What do we call this energy associated with motion like flowing

water, electricity, and Wind?

Kinetic Energy

5. What is the type of Electromagnetic Radiation used to view inside of

our bodies and objects?

X-rays

6. What is the type of electromagnetic radiation that absorbed by the

skin, used in fluorescent tubes?

Ultraviolet 
7. What is the type of electromagnetic radiation that transmits heat
from sun, fires, radiators?

Infrared

8. What is the type of electromagnetic radiation that used in cooking,

radar, telephone and other signals?

Microwaves

9. What is the type of electromagnetic radiation that used to broadcast

radio and television?

Radio Microwaves 

10. Examples of this type energy include a rock held in your hand, the
water in a reservoir behind a dam, and the chemical energy stored in
the carbon atoms of coal. What do we call this type of energy?

Potential Energy 

11. This is one of the major components of earth-life support system

that consist of the earths intensely hot core. What do we call of this
component?

Geosphere

12. It is composed of rock, and a thin outer crust. Most of the

geosphere is located in the earth’s interior.

Mantle 

13. ______________ is an upper portion containing nonrenewable

such as (Coal, oil and natural gas and minerals that we use, as well as
renewable soil chemicals (nutrients) that organisms need in order to
live, grow and reproduce.
Fossil fuel 

14. _____________ is found as water vapor in the atmosphere,

as liquid water on the surface and underground, and as ice-polar ice,
iceberg, glaciers and ice in frozen soil layers called permafrost.

Hydrosphere

15. ______________ is a thin spherical envelop of gases surrounding

the earth’s surface.

Atmosphere

16. ___________________ contains air that we breath, consisting

mostly of nitrogen (78% of the total volume) and oxygen (21%)

Troposphere

17. Most of the remaining 1% of the air consist of water vapor, carbon
dioxide, and methane, all of which are
called _____________________, which absorb and release energy
that warms the inner layer of the atmosphere.

Greenhouse gases 

18. _____________ are a lower portion holds enough ozone (O3) gas

to filter out about 95% of the sun’s harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation.
This global sunscreen allows life to exist on the surface of the planet

Stratosphere

19. ____________________ consists of the parts of the atmosphere,

hydrosphere, geosphere where life is found.

Biosphere
20. ____________ is the science that focuses on how organisms
interact with one another and with their nonliving environment of
matter and energy.

Ecology 

21. _________________________ is everything that lives on land,

animal or plant, depends upon it, Yet only one percent of it is within
reach. 

Forest 

22. The desert of  ___________________________ is one of the

hottest, driest places on Earth. Virtually nothing can live here for any
length of time. Yet once a decade this vast, empty desert is
transformed. 

North America

23. What is the name of the Australia's largest lake? 

kati Thanda, Lake Eyre

24. Who arrives in the Lake Eyre from Australia's coasts to hunt fish? 

Pelicans 

25. These great caves are beautiful and romantic but they're  also
dangerous places. Why?

 because glaciers are always on the move

26. When spring arrives, this vast of snow reservoir melts and a great
journey begin. Racing down the steep mountain slopes, the ice-cold
waters collect a life-giving ingredient. What is this ingredient? 

Oxygen 

27. Who is the visitors of these rushing, oxygen-rich waters that

comes every year?
Salmon 

28. What is the name of the river were macarnia manage to flourish? 

Caño Cristales, Colombia's Rainbow River

29. Thirty percent of the planet's fresh water lies beaneath the surface
of the land, either within the substance of porous rocks or as
_____________________ and rivers. 

b. Subterranean lakes

30. Where water flows over hard rock, it collects few nutrients, so few
plants can grow in it. but in South America, however this plant
manage to flourish. and what is the name of the plant? 

Macarenia

31. ___________________  is in the southern end of our planet and

the coldest place on Earth. It has been frozen for 30 million years

Antarctica

32. __________________________ spend most of thier lives at sea,

but now, in spring they have to come ashore to bread. They're the
fastest of all penguins in water, but on land, life takes on a slower
pace. 

Gento Penguins

33. _____________________ may appear to be flat and lifeless, but

beneath it there is another world. As the ice melts, the light filters
through, and algae, that have been trapped within the ice all winter,
flourish.

Sea Ice 

34. This upside-down world is the polar equivalent of the great

grasslands. The ice is the soil upon which plant life grows, and What is
the animal name of the herds of grazers that soon arrive?

leopard seals
35. What is the name of the Antartica's top predator? 

Orca, Killer Whales

36. It is the _____________________ that flourishes in these ice-free

waters and also the perfect place for an ambush.

a. Giant kelp 

37. Who seals overwinter in the island of South Georgia to escape

Antartica's frozen ocean? 

c. Antarctic Krill

38 - 39 In its center, the covering of ice is over

_______________________________. Entire mountain ranges are
buried beneath it. and here it is so cold that each winter
_______________________________ of ocean freezes, more than
doubling the size of the ice cap. 

Four kilometers thick

19 Million Square Kilometers

40. What is the name of Antartica's rarest commodity? This is the only
place where gentoos can lay thier eggs.

Bare Rock

41-42. This is ________________________. A

_____________________________ The richest habitat on earth.
Exactly how many species rain forest contains is unknown, but it runs
into millions. And new ones are dicovered every week.

b. Tropical Forest

c. Rain Forest

43. Although they cover just 7% of the world's land area,

______________________ play a vital role in the health of the planet.
Jungle 

44. A family of lowland gorillas. They're led by this silverback, the

dominant male. He's tall as a man, but twice the weight. His family
depend on him for survival. What is the male gorillas role in the family
as thier guardian? 

45. ____________________ is the world's largest jungle-covered

island and more than half of its palnt and animals are found nowhere
else on Earth. Its turbulent geological past has shaped this vast island
into a dramatic landscape of mountains and valleys. 

New Guinea

46. The ________________________, in Southeast Asia, have grown

here for nearly 130 million years, making them the oldest on Earth.

Jungles of Borneo

47. What is the name of an animal that is rarely seen but top
predators in Amazon Forest? 

Jaguar

48 - 49. What is the male black sicklebill unique way of attracting mates in a very
extraordinary way? 

Every morning, he clears his court of the night's fallen debris. It's a vital chore
if he wants to attract a mate. Females only visit the tidiest courts, so one rogue
leaf might ruin his chances. His obsessive housework pays off, and a female
drops in for a closer look. Now is his chance to really impress, but it won't be
easy. Females are very fussy, and she'll expect his carefully choreographed
routine to be faultless. He opens with a bow. Next, his blue eye must flash
yellow. The head plume shuffle, with spin. Her erect head feathers and
quivering wings are a very encouraging sign. His sidestep and head bob look
good from any angle, but his crowning glory can only be appreciated from her
perspective. A flash of his iridescent throat patch. His performance has been a
triumph, and he wins her approval.

50. What is the reason why ants died?