Landforms
The four major layers of the earth.
What are the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core?
The tiny particles that make up all matter.
What is an atom?
The system of measurement used by all scientists (and also most countries in the world besides the US).
What is the metric system?
Your teacher's name (no first name needed).
Who is Mx. Wender? (no points for anything else)
The giant pieces the crust are broken up into.
Matter cannot be created or destroyed, it just transforms.
What is the law of conservation of mass?
What you keep the the SAME throughout a scientific investigation.
What are Constant Variables or Control Variables (CV)?
The thing Mx. Wender gives out most frequently for prizes (especially for a 50 streak in LEXIA).
The cause of mega-thrust of earthquakes.
What is a subduction zone? (Will also allow a correct explanation)
How you find the number of neutrons in an atom.
What is the atomic mass minus the number of protons?
The thing you MEASURE/outcome of a scientific investigation.
What is the Dependent variable?
The skeleton's name.
Who is Larry?
One piece of evidence that Pangea existed.
What is ...
-the shape of the continents
-fossil data
-the age of rocks on sea floor
-glacial evidence
-coal evidence
-similar mountains on different coasts
-age, type, and locations of rocks on different continents
-GPS data
....and more?
The thing that defines an element. Each element has different properties because they have a different __________.
What is the number of protons?
What you CHANGE on purpose during a scientific investigation.
What is an Independent Variable (IV) ?
Mx. Wender's favorite animal.
What is a whale?
The layer of the Earth that is in between a solid and a liquid that the tectonic plates float on top of.
What is the asthenosphere?
The sub-atomic particle furthest from the center of the atom, in the orbital furthest from the nucleus.
What is a valence electron?
Where the variables go on a graph (specifically, which variables go where).
What is the IV goes on the X-axis & the DV goes on the Y-axis?
A mnemonic for remembering the metric system prefixes.
What is
King Henry Died Unexpectedly Drinking Chocolate Milk ?
Will accept a different mnemonic if the letters are correct & in order