Oceans
What are the areas of the ocean? Hint: There are 5...
Continental Shelf
Continental Slope
Continental Rise
Abyssal Plain
Trench
What are the 3 types of plate tectonic boundaries? And tell me what each does.
Transform (slide past each other)
Convergent (come together)
Divergent (pull apart from each other)
Give me an an example of a hypothesis.
If/then statement.
What is Virginia's most valuable resource?
Coal
What does weathering mean?
Breaking apart
What does salinity mean?
How much salt is in the water
This rock forms from heat and pressure.
Metamorphic Rock
What is an independent variable?
It is the variable that does not change.
What watershed does the Potomac River flow into?
Chesapeake Bay
What does deposition mean?
Where broken down pieces are dropped in a new place as sediment.
True or false...As depth increases, the temperature of the ocean water decreases.
True
Organisms being persevered in rock where it has built up over time is_________
Sedimentary Rock
What does dependent variable mean?
This is the variable that is being measured or tested.
Forest
Planting crops and trees on a hillside to help keep the soil in place could keep it from ____________ on a rainy day.
Erosion
True or false...The deeper the ocean gets, the darker it gets.
True
Give me all 4 layers of the Earth inside---out.
Inner core
Outer Core
Mantle
Crust
What does the controlled variable mean?
It is the variable that stays constant.
What are natural resources?
Resources that come from nature.
What are earth's two inner layers mostly made out of?
Iron and nickel
Waves
Tides
Currents
What are the 3 types of rocks?
Metamorphic
Sedimentary
Igneous
Make and observation
Hypothesis
Prediction
Experiment
Results/Conclusion
What is a watershed?
An area of land over which surface water flows into one collection place.
Earth's two outer layers are mostly made of?
Rocky material