Scientific Method
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Exploring Earth's Surface
Topographic Maps
Safety in the Lab
100
A possible explanation for a set of observations or answer to a scientific question.
What is a hypothesis?
100
This might cause scientists to change a scientific theory.
What is new evidence or an experiment that proves it different.
100
Features of topography, such as the Columbia Plateau and Central Valley are called this.
What is landforms?
100
In the U.S., may topographic maps have this which is 1:24,000.
What is a scale?
100
This is your chief concern when performing a lab.
What is safety?
200
A hypothesis must be
What is testable?
200
What a well-tested explanation for a wide range of observations or experimental results is called.
What is a scientific theory?
200
The vast, flat or gently rolling grassland in the interior of North America is called this.
What is the Great Plains?
200
Roads, rivers, airports, and woods are represented by these on a topographic map key.
What are symbols?
300
Which of the following are not examples of data: facts, figures, theories, or measurements?
What is theories?
300
This is a statement that describes what scientists expect to happen every time under a particular set of conditions.
What is a scientific law?
300
A landform with a high elevation and a more or less level surface.
What is a plateau?
300
This the the area determined by the elevation, relief, and landforms.
What is topography?
300
Always follow your teacher's instructions and textbook instructions exactly.
What is a safety rule?
400
During an experiment, ithis is what you purposely change in the experiment to see the result.
What is the manipulated (or independent) variable
400
This is a summary of what you have learned from a scientific experiment.
What is a conclusion?
400
A factor that may change in response to the manipulated variable in a science experiment.
What is a responding variable?
400
This is a landform with high elevation and a more or less level surface.
What is a contour interval?
400
If you have a broken piece of equipment in a science experiment.
What is don't use it?
500
An organized way to collect and record scientific observations.
What is data table?
500
A useful tool that may help a scientist interpret data by revealing unexpected patterns.
What is a graph?
500
Waves that transfer energy as they shake the Earth's lithosphere are produced by this.
What are earthquakes?
500
On a topographic map, points of equal elevation are connected by this.
What is contour lines?
500
When there is a flame being used in a science experiment, this is what you don't do.
What is don't reach across?
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