Plate Tectonics
This theory describes the movement of the plates of the Earth
What is Plate Tectonics?
The layer we live in.
The system that is defined by the sun being at the center
What is the heliocentric system?
The level where water begins underground.
What is the water table?
A theory about what will happen in an experiment
What is a hypothesis?
The layer that is solid and located in the middle of the Earth
What is the Inner Core?
The reason we divide the atmosphere into different layers
What is temperature changes?
The only planet in the solar system that spins on its side.
What is Uranus?
Ground above the zone where water is present underground?
What is the zone of aeration?
The variable in an experiment that is collecting data
What is a dependent variable?
The boundary that only has Earthquakes occur at it
What is transform boundary?
This helps keep the stratosphere warmer despite being above the troposphere
What is the ozone layer?
The explosion of a large mass star at the end of its life.
What is a supernova?
What is the cone of depression?
When I change something in an experiment
What is an independent variable?
This convergent boundary is known for building mountains.
What is Convergent Collision?
The reason that warm air rises and cold air sinks
What is convection?
This object has so much gravity that not even light can escape.
What is a black hole?
Where all water in a defined area filters into.
What is a watershed?
Things in an experiment that do not change
What are constants?
He came up with the theory of plate tectonics
Who is Alfred Wegner?
This weather system brings bad, lousy weather.
What is a low pressure system?
The collection of material that encompasses our solar system
What is the oort cloud?
Ground would be said to be this if water is able to move down through it.
What is permeable?
The group being tested against where the the situation is considered normal.
What is the control group?