SCI 225 Exam Questions and Answers
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Inquiry - ✔✔Learning science by doing science.
What can we relate all earth science and life standards to? - ✔✔Climate change.
How to teach climate change? - ✔✔Contextual learning and inquiry.
Hypothesis - ✔✔A possible explanation.
Nature of Science (NOS) - ✔✔Explanations of phenomenons, a way of knowing
through gaining knowledge, based on evidenced tentative yet durable. "rules to
the game"
Weather - ✔✔day-to-day atmospheric conditions, including temperature,
precipitation, and other factors. EX: hurricane, heatwave and snowstorm.
Climate - ✔✔Regional atmospheric conditions over a long period of time.
"average" weather throughout the year. More predictable and constant. EX:
Snow in January and hot in July.
Latitudinal Distribution - ✔✔General decrease from equator to poles. EX:
Climate, temperature, and precipitation.
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, Influences on Climate - ✔✔Ocean currents, wind patterns, mountains and
proximity to water.
Biome - ✔✔Global associations of plants and animals, largely determined by
climate, primarily temperature and precipitation.
Relationship between weather and climate - ✔✔Both are atmospheric
conditions at a certain period of time. Based on climate we can predict the
weather and vice versa (back and fourth relationship). EX: We know in July it
will be warm because of the climate, so any day in July we can go outside and it
should be warm.
Relationship between climate and biomes - ✔✔Biomes are in specific climates.
Climate determines biomes while biomes can also influence the climate (back
and fourth relationship). EX:
What are the 4 main earth systems? - ✔✔Atmosphere, Biosphere, Hydrosphere,
and Geosphere
What makes up a system? - ✔✔Interacting components, more complex than the
sum of it parts, boundaries, inputs and outputs, and contains subsystems.
What does the sun do? - ✔✔It powers the climate system (the main source of
energy).
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Inquiry - ✔✔Learning science by doing science.
What can we relate all earth science and life standards to? - ✔✔Climate change.
How to teach climate change? - ✔✔Contextual learning and inquiry.
Hypothesis - ✔✔A possible explanation.
Nature of Science (NOS) - ✔✔Explanations of phenomenons, a way of knowing
through gaining knowledge, based on evidenced tentative yet durable. "rules to
the game"
Weather - ✔✔day-to-day atmospheric conditions, including temperature,
precipitation, and other factors. EX: hurricane, heatwave and snowstorm.
Climate - ✔✔Regional atmospheric conditions over a long period of time.
"average" weather throughout the year. More predictable and constant. EX:
Snow in January and hot in July.
Latitudinal Distribution - ✔✔General decrease from equator to poles. EX:
Climate, temperature, and precipitation.
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, Influences on Climate - ✔✔Ocean currents, wind patterns, mountains and
proximity to water.
Biome - ✔✔Global associations of plants and animals, largely determined by
climate, primarily temperature and precipitation.
Relationship between weather and climate - ✔✔Both are atmospheric
conditions at a certain period of time. Based on climate we can predict the
weather and vice versa (back and fourth relationship). EX: We know in July it
will be warm because of the climate, so any day in July we can go outside and it
should be warm.
Relationship between climate and biomes - ✔✔Biomes are in specific climates.
Climate determines biomes while biomes can also influence the climate (back
and fourth relationship). EX:
What are the 4 main earth systems? - ✔✔Atmosphere, Biosphere, Hydrosphere,
and Geosphere
What makes up a system? - ✔✔Interacting components, more complex than the
sum of it parts, boundaries, inputs and outputs, and contains subsystems.
What does the sun do? - ✔✔It powers the climate system (the main source of
energy).
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©KERRYMARTIN 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
