Scientific Investigation
What do you call information collected during an experiment?
Data
What kind of force slows down a moving object when it rubs against something?
Friction
What kind of rock forms from melted rock that cools and hardens?
Igneous
What is the process where water flows over land and carries away soil?
Erosion
What state of matter takes the shape of its container but has a definite volume?
Liquid
What is a prediction that can be tested called?
Hypothesis
What do we call the energy of motion?
Kinetic Energy
What kind of rock is formed when heat and pressure change existing rock?
Metamorphic
What are pieces of Earth’s crust that move and cause earthquakes, volcanoes, etc?
Tectonic Plates
What do we call something that is made up of only one kind of atom?
Element
DAILY DOUBLE! What is the part of an experiment that is changed on purpose?
Independent Variable
What is force?
What forms when layers of sediment get pressed together over time?
Sedimentary
What is the difference between weather and climate?
Weather = daily conditions; climate = long-term patterns
What is the process of a liquid becoming a gas?
Evaporation
A student wants to test if the amount of sunlight affects how fast a plant grows. What is the independent variable?
The amount of sunlight
What would happen if there were no friction at all?
Objects would keep moving without stopping
How are igneous rocks formed?
From cooled and hardened magma or lava
What is the difference between rotation and revolution?
Rotation = spinning on axis; revolution = orbiting around the Sun
What state of matter spreads out to fill the container it’s in?
Gas
What is the variable that is measured or observed?
Dependent
DAILY TRIPLE! What is the Law of Conservation of Matter?
Matter cannot be created or destroyed, only changed
A rock forms from layers of sand and shells at the bottom of the ocean. What type of rock is it, and what processes formed it?
Sedimentary
What comes after a full moon in the lunar cycle?
Waning Gibbous
DAILY DOUBLE! If a solid is broken into pieces, what kind of change is it?
Physical Change