Clouds
Natural Disasters
Floating and Sinking
Layers of the Earth
Scientific Method and Engineering Process
150
Name two types of precipitation.
What is Rain, Snow, Sleet, Hail, or Freezing Rain?
150
Name at least three examples of natural disasters.
What is Blizzards, Tornado, Volcanoes, Tsunamis, Landslide, Dust Storms, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Dust storms, Wildfires, Sinkholes, Floods, Droughts, Earthquakes, etc.
150
What does this picture tell us about the liquids honey, water, and oil?
What is Honey is the densest liquid, followed by water. The least dense is the oil.
150
What is the layer of the Earth that we walk on every day?
What is the crust?
150
What does the acronym STEM stand for?
What is Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics?
200
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What kind of cloud has made this fog?
What is stratus?
200
What natural disaster can occur directly after an earthquake?
What is a tsunami, landslide, volcanic eruption, fire, or flood?
200
Almost everything (Solids, Liquid and Gases) is made up of ____________.
What is Matter? (Atoms and molecules)
200
The Earth's Crust is broken up into giant pieces of land called...
What are plates or tectonic plates?
200
What do you do during the "improve" stage of the engineering method?
You make changes to your design and make it better.
350
When you see this type of cloud, what kind of weather does it indicate?
What is fine/ good weather?
350
Name one plate boundary that can cause a volcano to erupt.
What are divergent or convergent plate boundaries?
350
Name one reason why these blocks of the same size are not all floating.
What is The metal block is denser than the water, so it sinks. The wood and cork blocks float because they are less dense than the water.
350
What layer of the Earth is made up of liquid nickel and iron?
What is the outer core?
350
What does constraints and criteria mean?
Constraint (What you can't do, your limitations)
Criteris (The rules and requirements)
400
What are the three main cloud types?
Cirrus, Stratus and Cumulus
400
What is one type of plate boundary that causes an earthquake?
What is Transform Boundary, Convergent Boundary, or Transform Boundary (Weak Earthquake)?
400
What is the opposite force that is working against buoyancy?
What is Gravity?
400
What layer of the earth is as hot at the surface of the Sun?
What is the inner core?
400
In the scientific method, after observation, the next step would be....
What is Research?
500
The word cumulus came from a Latin word that means...
What is pile or heap?
500
The area of an Earthquake where you can feel the strongest waves.
What is the Epicenter?
500
Buoyancy is a force that always acts in the _________ direction.
What is upwards or up?
500
What are the four layers of the Earth?
What is Crust, Mantle, Inner Core, and Outer Core
500
What is the main difference between the scientific method and the engineering process?
The scientific method is used to answer a question, and the engineering process is used to solve a problem.