Scientific Method
What is the first step of the scientific method?
Question or Problem
Which type of rock is formed from cooling magma?
Igneous Rock
Tectonic motion caused tension between plates in Earth’s crust. A sudden release of this energy occurred. Based on this information, which event happened?
Earthquake
Name a nonrenewable resource
Coal
Oil
Natural Gas
Petrolium
How many brothers does Prince Hans of the Southern Isles have in Frozen?
12
What is a characteristic of a good hypothesis
If... then... statement
Which type of rock would you expect to find fossils?
Sedimentary Rock
A volcano found in the center of a tectonic plate tends to be a result of which phenomenon?
Hot spot
true or false Renewable energy resources have no environmental downsides
false
Which Disney Princess sings “Once Upon a Dream”?
Aurora (Sleeping Beauty)
In an experiment, which variable is being changed or tested by the scientist?
Dependent Variable
Acid rain dissolving and wearing down rock statues is an example of what type of weathering
Chemical
Which type of plate boundary is MOST responsible for the formation of the Himalayan Range?
Convergent Boundary
Wave energy from the ocean can be harnessed to power generators to make electricity. Energy from ocean tides can also be used to make electricity. How would you categorize these two sources of energy?
Both are renewable
What is the name of Wendy’s dog in Peter Pan?
Nana
A gardener wants to know if fertilizer makes her sunflower plants grow taller. She plants twenty sunflower seeds. Ten of the sunflower plants are given fertilizer once a week. The other ten sunflower plants do not get any fertilizer. She makes sure that all twenty sunflower plants are growing in the same soil and receive the same amount of water and sunlight. After 2 months of growing, the gardener measures the height of the sunflower plants.
What is the independent variable in this experiment?
Fertilizer
Which characteristic property indicates that igneous rock cools slowly?
Crystal Size
Geologists were examining an area in Africa called the Great Rift Valley. Which geologic event MOST likely caused the formation of the valley?
Divergent Boundary
What do the energy resources uranium and coal have in common?
they both are formed from the remains of dead organisms.
What is the name of the toy store in Toy Story 2?
Al’s Toy Barn
A gardener wants to know if fertilizer makes her sunflower plants grow taller. She plants twenty sunflower seeds. Ten of the sunflower plants are given fertilizer once a week. The other ten sunflower plants do not get any fertilizer. She makes sure that all twenty sunflower plants are growing in the same soil and receive the same amount of water and sunlight. After 2 months of growing, the gardener measures the height of the sunflower plants.
What is the control group in this experiment?
The plants that did not get any fertilizer
name an example of mechanical weathering
Rock Freezing and thawing
Most mountains on Earth occur in huge ranges stretching for thousands of miles. Which event is MOST likely to cause the formation of these mountain ranges?
Movement of plates
In the 1930s, the American Great Plains became known as the Dust Bowl because it was the source of huge clouds of dust that covered much of the United States. Describes the causes of the Dust Bowl?
a severe drought and the overuse of prairie farmland
What year did Disneyland open?
1955