Inquiry
Inside Earth
Earth's Changing Surface
Astronomy
Motion
100
The variable in an experiment that the experimenter changes on purpose. It is the cause of the change in dependent variable.
What is the independent variable.
100
The innermost, solid metal layer of Earth.
What is the inner core?
100
Organisms throughout Earth's history have adapted to changes or this resulted.
What is extinction?
100
The center of our solar system.
What is teh Sun?
100
The change in position relative to a reference point.
What is motion?
200
You are working in the lab. A small stack of paper catches on fire from the bunsen burner. This is the first safety procedure you should follow.
What is tell the teacher.
200
The thickest layer of Earth made of hot, softened rock.
What is the mantle?
200
This time in Earth's history was characterized by volcanic activity, a toxic atmosphere, and cyanobacteria.
What is the Precambrian Time?
200
The type of galaxy we live in.
What is a sprial galaxy?
200
The final distance from a starting point.
What is displacement?
300
Students at Emory University discovered a compound that destroys all types of cancer cells in mice. Their results have been repeated in multiple trials. Now they are working on the final step of the inquiry process. What are they doing?
What is communicating their results?
300
Volcanoes are very common in this part of the Pacific Ocean due to subduction.
What is the Ring of Fire?
300
During this era, life on Earth developed vertebrae, then made its way out of the water and onto land as amphibians and eventually reptiles.
What is the Paleozoic Era?
300
This combines with Earth's revolution around the Sun to give us seasons.
What is Earth's tilt?
300
Can be found using the formula total distance divided by total time.
What is average speed?
400
You are asked to participate in an experiment examining the effects of loud music on hearing at the University of Scientific Inquiry. Volunteers must sign a waiver agreeing not to hold the University responible for any hearing loss. You refuse to sign the waiver, so you are put in this group.
What is the control group?
400
The rising and falling of mantle material that is believed to be the driving force behind plate tectonics.
What are convection current?
400
The catastropic event believed to have caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs that ended the Mesozoic Era.
What is a comet/asteroid/meteroid collision?
400
The cause of the Moon phases seen on Earth.
What is different amounts of the lighted side of the Moon are visible at different times of the month?
400
The distance covered in a given time period.
What is speed?
500
Your science teacher asks you to compete in the Science Fair this year. You are interested in findind out how to repair scratched CD's. You tell your mom you need to go to the library and she wants to know why. You tell her this.
What is to do research to come up with a hypothesis?
500
Humans are unable to travel past the crust of the Earth, so these are used to determine the structure of Earth.
What are seismic waves?
500
This process is used to determne the epicenter of an earthquake.
What is triangulation?
500
This object changes names based on its location. (Give the names and location)
What is a meteroid in space, a meteor burning in a planet's atmosphere, and a meteorite on the surface of a planet?
500
A visual representation of motion, where a horizontal line represents a stationary object.
What is a time-distance graph?
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