The Scientific Method
Ethical Guidelines in Science
Earth's Place in the Universe
The History of the Earth
The Geosphere
100
In science, an educated guess based off research and experience is called this
What is a hypothesis?
100
The term HeLa is used to identify a particular lineage of immortal cells and is an abbreviation of this Roanoke native's name
What is Henrietta Lacks?
100
An astronomical unit (AU) is equivalent to the distance between these two objects in the universe
What is the Sun and Earth?
100
The era in which dinosaurs inhabited the planet
What is the Mesozoic Era?
100
The three types of rocks
What are sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous?
200
The acronym CER stands for these three words
What is claim, evidence, and reasoning?
200
Three identifications that must be considered in order to obtain a fair subject selection in experiments
What are age, location, race/ethnicity, education level, political affiliation, annual income, and religion?
200
When the universe was forming, all of the matter, energy and space we could observe was compressed to an area of zero volume and infinite density called this.
What is a singularity?
200
The first living organisms to photosynthesize
What are cyanobacteria?
200
The study of the rocks
What is the geology?
300
The difference between quantitative and qualitative data
What is quantitative data is numerical and qualitative data is observations?
300
UVA recently named a building after Dr. Vivian Pinn, who was the sole female and Black member of her medical class. She was also the first Black person to lead an academic department at this HBCU
What is Howard University?
300
Because a comet consists of these two materials, they are unable to land on Earth's surface
What are dust and ice?
300
Aside from rocks, there are two other main things scientists study to learn about past climate
What are tree rings and ice cores?
300
The physical layers of the Earth
What are the lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, inner core, and outer core?
400
When reading a graduated cylinder, you should measure from the bottom of this disk:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/meniscus01-58b5b2c03df78cdcd8ab8299.png)
What is the meniscus?
400
Our guest speaker, Dr, Rispoli taught us that children are unable to consent to partaking in scientific experiments, but they are able to express approval or disapproval in participating. The name for approval is called this.
What is assent?
400
What are two of the four types of galaxies we discussed?
What are spiral, barred, irregular, and elliptical?
400
Any animal or plant preserved in the rock record of the Earth that is characteristic of a particular span of geologic time or environment
What is an index fossil?
400
The theory proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912
What is continental drift?
500
If I want to know what type of music is the best to listen to when studying, the type of music is this type of variable
What is the dependent variable?
500
Ben Ferencz was a lawyer that prosecuted war crimes committed by Nazis during these trials
What are the Nuremberg Trials?
500
Our guest lecturers Mark Wallace and Dr. Tony Beasley have careers in astrophysics at these two different organizations
What are the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory?
500
Name three of the five types of fossils we discussed
What are petrified fossils, molds and casts, carbon films, preserved remains, and trace fossils?
500
The roots of a plant cracking a rock is an example of this
What is weathering?