A short statement that communicates the main idea of a paragraph.
What is a summary
100
Earth's outermost and thinnest layer
What is crust.
100
A constructive force of nature when magma is forced to the surface through a weak spot in the crust.
What is volcano.
100
The force people feel when two plates jerk into a new position.
What is an earthquake.
100
When you explain your answer.
What is communicate.
200
Learning to do this can help you evaluate what you read and observe.
What is drawing conclusions.
200
The top part of the mantle and the crust above it.
What is the lithosphere.
200
Airborne, cooling lava.
What is ash or rocks.
200
Where two plates collide and mountains are made when the crust folds, tilts, and lifts.
What is a converging boundary.
200
Making a guess based on what you have already observed.
What is predict.
300
The order in which events happen usually indicated by writers with clue words such as first, next, the, and finally.
What is sequencing.
300
The crust, mantle, outercore, and inner core.
What is Earth's layers.
300
The top of the main vent of a volcano.
What is a crater.
300
When plates move apart from each other such as at the mid-Atlantic ridge.
What is a spreading plate boundary.
300
Putting together facts and then extending them to form a thought on what the information means.
What is inference.
400
Why something happens.
What is cause.
400
Three ways scientists study them: study mantle material that is pushed up through cracks in the curst; measure different kinds of vibrations from earthquakes; juse laboratory experiments.
What is scientific study of Earth's mantle and core.
400
The resulting land formation when a volcano reaches the surface of the water.
What is a volcanic island.
400
Two plates moving past each other in opposite directions.
What is a sliding plate boundary.
400
Making sure conditions you are not testing are the same.
What is controlling variables.
500
What happens.
What is effect.
500
A section of Earth's lithosphere.
What is a plate.
500
The downhill movement of large masses of rock and soil.
What is a landslide.
500
The surface above a focus.
What is an epicenter.
500
Carrying out a careful procedure to answer a scientific question.