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This type of question cannot be answered with a simple yes or no.
What is a testable question?
This sphere contains all living things on earth.
What is the biosphere?
In this plate boundary, plates move apart from each other.
What is a divergent plate boundary?
This substance composes rocks.
What is a mineral?
This is a symbol on a map displaying cardinal directions.
What is a compass rose?
This type of data uses your senses to observe results.
What is the geosphere?
This device is used to detect seismic activity.
What is a seismograph?
This rock is formed when magma inside the Earth’s crust cools quickly.
What is an igneous intrusive rock?
This line shows equal elevation.
What is a contour line?
We ___ for our needs and for the needs of others.
What is advocating?
This sphere scientist studies volcanos and lava.
What is a volcanologist?
The system used to determine the epicenter of an earthquake.
What is triangulation?
This rock type often has air bubbles or is glassy.
What is an igneous extrusive rock?
This is a type of mechanical weathering in which temperature change makes rocks expand and contract.
What is thermal stress?
This common tool measures volume.
What is a graduated cylinder?
This sphere scientists studies the ocean and its properties.
What is an oceanographer?
This natural phenomenon occurs at a transform plate boundary.
What is an earthquake?
In this rock type, the daughter rock is stronger than the parent rock.
What is a metamorphic rock?
This is the way the mineral breaks.
What is cleavage?
What is a law?
This sphere scientists studies inland water.
What is a limnologist?
In a subduction zone, this type of tectonic plate goes under another.
What is an ocean tectonic plate?
Minerals are ranked from 1-10 on __ Hardness Scale.
What is Mohs Hardness Scale?
This crystal projects light to the front of the mineral.
What is ulexite?