Scientific Method
This step comes after forming a hypothesis and involves collecting data
What is an experiment?
This Earth layer is made mostly of solid iron and nickel and is the hottest layer.
What is the inner core?
This unit is a smaller part of an era
What is a period?
This type of energy is produced by vibrating objects and travels as waves you can hear.
What is sound energy?
This type of boundary occurs when two plates move away from each other.
What is a divergent boundary?
This is the final step where scientists decide if their hypothesis was supported or not.
What is drawing a conclusion
This layer of Earth is where convection currents occur.
What is the mantle?
This era is known as the “Age of Mammals.”
What is the Cenozoic Era?
This type of energy comes from the Sun and is essential for life on Earth.
What is solar energy?
This type of boundary forms mountains when two plates collide (come together).
What is a convergent boundary?
This type of data is descriptive and does not use numbers.
What is qualitative data
This part of the earth's layer includes rocks, soil, and landforms.
What is the crust?
This principle states that rock layers on the bottom are older than layers above them.
What is Superposition?
This type of energy is stored in objects due to their position or shape.
What is potential energy?
This supercontinent existed before breaking apart into today’s continents.
What is Pangaea?
This variable is measured or observed in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
This process moves sediment from one place to another.
What is erosion?
This event marks the extinction of dinosaurs.
What is the Mass extinction?
This type of energy increases when particles move faster.
What is thermal energy?
This process occurs when one plate is forced beneath another.
What is subduction?
This variable is the variable that is changed
What is an independent variable ?
This type of rock forms from cooled lava or magma.
What is igneous rock?
The Jurassic period happened during this era
This type of energy is associated with moving objects.
What is kinetic energy?
This type of boundary is responsible for most earthquakes as plates slide past each other.
What is a transform boundary?