Name that Variable
Heat Transfer
Earth's Layers/boundaries
Plate Tectonics
Everything Science
100
Ryan wanted to grow cucumbers from seeds. He read that using a heating pad to heat up potting soil could help make seeds germinate, or sprout, faster. Ryan wondered whether the temperature of the heating pad would affect how quickly the seeds germinated. What is the independent variable?
Temperature
100
The transfer of heat energy from the sun to Earth.
Radiation
100
This layer of the Earth is made up of the asthenosphere and the lithosphere.
the mantle
100
The broken pieces of lithosphere that are made to move around due to convection currents
Tectonic Plates
100
The Energy of Motion
Kinetic
200
Jaden gathered eight identical bird feeders. He filled four with sunflower seeds. He filled the remaining four feeders with crushed peanuts. Jaden then placed the bird feeders in his backyard. Over the next five days, he counted the number of woodpeckers that visited each bird feeder each morning. Independent variable is?
Different type of food
200
What method of heat transfer is shown here?
Convection heating (hot fluid rises, cool fluid sinks
200
The name for the pattern on a map made by graphing the location of most volcanoes on Earth.
Ring of Fire
200
Most divergent plate boundaries occur here and create ridges. (
the ocean
200
The Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy is never created or destroyed, it is only ________ from one form to another.
Changed
300
Three redwood trees are kept at different humidity levels inside a greenhouse for 12 weeks. One tree is left outside in normal conditions. Height of the trees is measured once a week. IV___________ DV___________
IV: different humidity levels
DV: height of tree
300
Beneath the Earth's crust hot magma is rising and cool magma sinking.
Convection
300
The outermost layer of the Earth
crust
300
A boundary where two plates slide along each other
Transform
300
If you imagine a drop of water about to fall down a waterfall, at the top of the waterfall the drop of water has this kind of energy.
Potential
400
Nick wanted to see how high an ice cube would float in different temperatures of water. IV_____________ DV_____________
IV: temperatures of water
DV: height of ice cube in water
400
What method of heat transfer is this?
Conduction
400
This layer of the Earth is in the very center and is made of mostly iron.
The inner Core
400
This type of boundary is made when two plates pull/divide apart from each other
Divergent
400
Riding a bike is an example of this kind of energy.
Kinetic
500
Three redwood trees are kept at different humidity levels inside a greenhouse for 12 weeks. One tree is left outside in normal conditions. Height of the tree is measured once a week. CV________________
CV: the tree left outside in normal condition
500
A pot is heated on a stove. Which process causes the metal handle of the pot to also become hot?
a. combustion
b. convection
c. radiation
d. conduction
D
500
When two plates meet at a congvergent boundary, which one will subduct?
The older, more dense plate
500
The area where two tectonic plates meet
Plate Boundary
500
Visible light is an example of what specific type of light energy? Hint...Learned in Waves
Electromagnetic Energy