The Final Frontier
The action of one surface, material, or object rubbing against another
What is friction?
This type of experiment has as goal of pure knowledge
What is a pure science experiment?
This type of graph records individual data as points on a graph that are connected with a line
What is a line graph?
Minerals often form these, while rocks do not
What are crystalline shapes?
An organized system of millions or billions of stars, gas, solar systems, and dust that are held together by gravitational attraction
What is a galaxy?
A new process or machine that makes life better or makes a job easier
This type of graph is used to compare items or to show relationships between groups, such as how something changes over time. It uses an x and y axis
What is a bar graph?
Most of these are created by actions of Earth’s crust
What are mountains?
This mnemonic represents the colors of visible light, made up of seven different wavelengths
This type of experiment is designed to discover or identify something useful
What is applied science?
This type of graph is used when you want to visualize parts of a whole and is usually round in shape
What is a circle graph or pie chart?
A broken sheet of Styrofoam floating on the surface of water, each piece moving, depending on how the water moves is an illustration of this
What is plate tectonics?
This phenomenon happens when the Moon perfectly shields the sun’s light so that only its atmosphere is visible
What is a total solar eclipse?
This is the age of an artifact as determined by a date printed on it or a reference to the artifact in a reliable work of history
What is known age?
This type of graph compares the relative sizes of two sets of data
What is a double bar graph?
A surface of erosion that separates one layer of rock from another
What is unconformity?
This is the name of a celestial object when it is outside Earth’s atmosphere, called a meteor when it is inside the earth’s atmosphere
What is a meteoroid?
This is a type of radio metric dating used to determine the age of an item
What is Carbon-14 dating?
This gives you information about a graph so you can better read it. It is usually off to the side or below a graph
What is a legend?
This is the correct order of the layers of Earth, starting from the outside and going toward the center
What is Crust, Mantle, Outer Core, and Inner Core?