Scientific Method
The variable that the scientist changes or manipulates.
What is the independent variable?
This is another word for the material that waves travel through.
What is a medium?
This is the lowest point on a transverse wave.
What is the trough?
This rock is formed through a process of heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic?
This plate boundary results in earthquakes.
What is a transform boundary?
The variable that is measured.
What is the dependent variable?
This is the highest point of a transverse wave.
What is the crest?
This is the only portion of the EMS that humans can see with their eyes.
What is visible light?
This is the process that forms a sedimentary rock.
This plate boundary results in mountains
The amount of pollution produced by cars was measured for cars using gasoline containing different amounts of lead. This is the dependent variable.
What is the amount of pollution produced?
The measurement between crest to crest.
What is the wavelength?
What is the medium?
The process of melting into magma and cooling or solidify for this rock.
What is igneous?
A student wanted to test how the mass of a paper airplane affected the distance it would fly. Paper clips were added before each test flight. As each paper clip was added, the plane was tested to determine how far it would fly. This is the independent variable.
What is the mass of the paper airplane?
These are the two types of mechanical waves.
What are transverse and longitudinal?
This process will break a larger rock in to smaller sediment.
What is weathering?
This is the proper definition of the rock cycle.
What is a process that allows rocks to turn into any rock type if it undergoes the proper process?
This plate boundary results in this geological feature and is caused by oceanic plate crashing into a continental plate.
What is a convergent boundary and volcanic mountain chain?
The variables the remain the same throughout the entire experiment to ensure you're only testing the independent variable.
What are the constants?
The area of high pressure on a longitudinal wave.
What is compression?
This geological feature is most likely associated with convergent boundaries at one continental plate and one oceanic plate
What are volcanos?
This is the rock type that fossils are typically found in.
What are sedimentary rock?
This plate boundary results in a island chain arc.
What is a convergent boundary between two oceanic plates?