What are inquiry skills used for?
A. Gather information and answer questions
B. Testing a hypothesis
C. Making observations
What is
A. Gather information and answer questions
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Why are charts, tables, diagrams, and graphs useful?
A. So that we have somewhere to store data
B. Organizes data so it can be easily read and interpreted.
C. They keep you from mixing up dependent and independent variables.
What is
B. Organize data so others can easily read and interpreted.
100
What inquiry skill are you using if you put all the red skittles together, all the green skittles together, and all the orange skittles together?
What is
classify
100
What is formed when a river slows down as it reaches the ocean and then deposits sediment at the mouth of the river?
What is delta
100
Which process forms most mountains?
What is movement of Earth's crust
200
Which of the following scientific method steps is done first?
A. Draw conclusions
B. Hypothesis
C. Ask Questions
What is
C. Ask questions
200
Put the scientific method in the correct order.
- Conclusion
- Hypothesis
- Plan an experiment
- Conduct and experiment
- Ask a question
What is
Ask a question
Hypothesis
Plan an experiment
Conduct an experiment
Conclusion
200
Which of the following landforms is made by water erosion?
hill, sanddune, mountain, mesa
mesa
200
The epicenter of the earthquake is located _____________
What is directly above the focus of the earthquake
200
What information does a seismograph provide?
What is strength and length of an earthquake.
It CANNOT predict an earthquake
300
Classifiying, measuring, and recording data are all examples of what process?
A. Communicating
B. Inquiry
C. Conclusion
What is
B. inquiry
300
Which tools are qualitative observations and which are quantitative observations?
hand lens, spring scale, microscope, thermometer
quantitative-spring scale, thermometer
qualitative-microscope, hand lens
300
How does a hotspot form a chain of volcanoes?
Volcanoes form ABOVE a hotspot as the volcanoes form as the plates move over the hotspots.
300
How are mushroom rocks formed?
What is weathering caused by blowing sand
300
What is the purpose of Barrier Islands and Sand Spits?
What is protect the mainland from wave erosion
400
Why is using a thermometer or graduated cylinder more scientific than estimating temperature or volume?
A. It is more accurate
B. It is easier
C. It uses more time
What is
A. It is more accurate
400
Which tool led to the discovery of bacteria and other tiny living things in water?
What is microscope
400
True of False
A rapidly flowing river will cause the river to become narrow and more shallow.
What is False.
A rapidly flowing river will become wider or deeper.
400
The movement of which of Earth's layers causes plates to move?
What is the Mantle
400
What process replaces the sand on the beach?
What is beach restoration
500
Which of the following allows you to organize information according to specific criteria?
A. Graphing
B. Measuring
C. Classifying
What is
C. Classifying
500
What is the difference between a simple investigation and a experiment?
An experiment is testing your hypothesis and a simple investigation is only researching a question.
500
What is the purpose of a jetty?
It traps sand and small rocks to protect the beach.