Praxis 5440 Questions and Answers
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What is the name for the type of rock formed from the compression of sediment?
✔✔Sedimentary rock
What is the term for the water cycle's process of water moving from plants to the atmosphere?
✔✔Transpiration
What is the name for the force that causes an object to resist changes in its motion?
✔✔Inertia
What is the term for the ability of a material to bounce back after being stretched or compressed?
✔✔Elasticity
What is the name for the movement of tectonic plates beneath the Earth’s surface?
✔✔Plate tectonics
1
,What is the unit of force in the International System of Units?
✔✔Newton
What is the term for the energy stored in an object due to its position in a gravitational field?
✔✔Gravitational potential energy
What is the term for the natural satellite that orbits a planet?
✔✔Moon
What is the process by which solid rock is broken down into smaller particles?
✔✔Weathering
What is the term for the ability of an object to float in a fluid?
✔✔Buoyancy
What is the name for the chemical reaction that occurs when oxygen reacts with a substance to
release energy?
✔✔Combustion
2
,What is the term for the energy associated with the motion of particles in a substance?
✔✔Thermal energy
What is the process in which an organism makes its own food from carbon dioxide and water
using light energy?
✔✔Photosynthesis
What is the term for the interaction between two objects in which they pull on each other?
✔✔Gravitational force
What is the process of heating a liquid until it changes into a gas?
✔✔Boiling
What is the unit of force in the International System of Units (SI)?
✔✔Newton
What is the term for the ability of a material to allow electricity to flow through it?
3
, ✔✔Electrical conductivity
What is the process of a liquid changing to a gas at a temperature below its boiling point?
✔✔Evaporation
What is the term for a material that resists the flow of electric current?
✔✔Insulator
What is the term for the energy transferred between objects or systems due to a difference in
temperature?
✔✔Heat
What is the term for the natural process that causes an organism to adapt to its environment over
time?
✔✔Evolution
What is the force that opposes the motion of objects moving through a fluid?
✔✔Drag
4
Rated A+
What is the name for the type of rock formed from the compression of sediment?
✔✔Sedimentary rock
What is the term for the water cycle's process of water moving from plants to the atmosphere?
✔✔Transpiration
What is the name for the force that causes an object to resist changes in its motion?
✔✔Inertia
What is the term for the ability of a material to bounce back after being stretched or compressed?
✔✔Elasticity
What is the name for the movement of tectonic plates beneath the Earth’s surface?
✔✔Plate tectonics
1
,What is the unit of force in the International System of Units?
✔✔Newton
What is the term for the energy stored in an object due to its position in a gravitational field?
✔✔Gravitational potential energy
What is the term for the natural satellite that orbits a planet?
✔✔Moon
What is the process by which solid rock is broken down into smaller particles?
✔✔Weathering
What is the term for the ability of an object to float in a fluid?
✔✔Buoyancy
What is the name for the chemical reaction that occurs when oxygen reacts with a substance to
release energy?
✔✔Combustion
2
,What is the term for the energy associated with the motion of particles in a substance?
✔✔Thermal energy
What is the process in which an organism makes its own food from carbon dioxide and water
using light energy?
✔✔Photosynthesis
What is the term for the interaction between two objects in which they pull on each other?
✔✔Gravitational force
What is the process of heating a liquid until it changes into a gas?
✔✔Boiling
What is the unit of force in the International System of Units (SI)?
✔✔Newton
What is the term for the ability of a material to allow electricity to flow through it?
3
, ✔✔Electrical conductivity
What is the process of a liquid changing to a gas at a temperature below its boiling point?
✔✔Evaporation
What is the term for a material that resists the flow of electric current?
✔✔Insulator
What is the term for the energy transferred between objects or systems due to a difference in
temperature?
✔✔Heat
What is the term for the natural process that causes an organism to adapt to its environment over
time?
✔✔Evolution
What is the force that opposes the motion of objects moving through a fluid?
✔✔Drag
4
