Some nuclear waste is stored about 600 meters below the desert in New Mexico inside caverns dug

out of an ancient bed of rock salt. The land above

the storage site is owned by the federal

government. Why do you think this location was

chosen?

Several kinds of bears are found on earth. most bears are brown or black, but one type of bear, the polar bear, is white. what process led to this difference in fur color? explain your answer.

Melting and boiling are endothermic processes. this means that these processes absorb energy from their surroundings in order to occur. use this information and the data you collected in the phase change gizmo to describe what happens to the temperature of water when you boil it, then explain why this result occurs.

The atoms of a solid aluminum can are close together, vibrating in a rigid structure. if the can is warmed up on a hot plate, what happens to the atoms?