Inquiry & Engineering
The variable that is changed in an experiment.
What is the Independent Variable.
All matter is made of these. Building block of all matter.
What are atoms?
The layers of the earth.
What are the crust, the mantle, the outer core, & the inner core?
The living parts or factors in an ecosystem.
What are Biotic Factors?
The state Ms. Flasch is from.
What is Wisconsin?
The variable that is measured in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
Anything with mass and volume.
What is matter?
The crust is split into these giant chunks
What are tectonic plates?
Amount of sunlight would be an example of an important part of an ecosystem and categorized as this.
What is Abiotic Factor
The number of hearts an octopus has.
What is 3?
The requirements of an engineering solution.
What are criteria?
The sub-atomic particles (the parts of an atom).
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?
When one plate slides underneath another plate.
What is subduction/a subduction zone?
The interactions between the biotic and abiotic parts of the environment.
What is an ecosystem.
Ms. Flasch's favorite type of Doritos.
What is the purple bag or spicy sweet chili?
The three big constraints for an engineering solution.
What is time limit, budget, and materials?
When the atoms in a substance rearrange to form new molecules.
What is a chemical reaction?
The different types of plate boundaries (where two plates meet).
What are transform, convergent, & divergent boundaries?
What is secondary consumer?
The world's deadliest animal that according to the World Health Organization, 725,000 people are killed each year from.
What are mosquitos?
For the research question: "How does the amount of Red Bull I drink affect how energetic I feel?" these are the 3 variables.
What is..
1. IV=Amount of red bull
2. DV=how energetic I feel
3. CV=amount of exercise, sleep, etc. (anything that could affect my energy)
A pure substance made up of only one type of atom.
What is an element?
The phenomenon that is causing the continents to move.
What is convection in the mantle?
This is the greenhouse gas that humans produce to accelerate climate change.
What is Carbon Dioxide (or CO2)?
The name of Ms. Flasch's beloved daughter. (spelling counts)
What is Kitsi?