Nature of Science
These two variables are necessary to set up a scientific experiment, also called the manipulated and conclusion variables.
What are Independent and Dependent Variables?
This process, occuring in the mantle, drives the tectonic plate's movement.
What is Convection?
This surface event, divided into physical and chemical, is the breakdown of rocks and minerals.
What is Weathering?
The sphere of Earth that includes all of the liquid water.
What is the hydrosphere?
This force, discovered by Sir Isaac Newton, is what gives planets their shape as well as keeps objects in orbit around each other.
What is Gravity?
A hypothesis is a prediction of the outcome for scientific investigation. It is written in this common format.
What is an If/Then statement?
This layer of the Earth is made up of liquid iron and nickel and is the source of Earth's magnetic field.
What is the Outer Core?
The process through which sedimentary and igneous rocks are converted into metamorphic rocks.
What is Heat and Pressure?
What is the Mesosphere?
Apparent Magnitude is luminosity measured from this location.
What is Earth?
This type of variable is kept the same to maintain the integrity of the experiment. A true scientific experiment only manipulates a single variable and this is what the other variables are called that are not manipulated.
What is the Constant Variable?
The Earth is constantly creating new crust at THIS landform but does not get any larger because of what happens at THIS landform. (two answers)
What are Mid-Ocean Ridges and Subduction Zones?
This process involves the movement of rock and sediments.
What is Erosion?
Ozone (O3) fills the stratosphere and shields Earth from harmful ultraviolet rays. The use of chlorofluorocarbons and other greenhouse gasses has depleted the ozone and caused THIS process to occur.
What is Global Warming/Climate Change?
The outer planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are all characterized by these things. (Name 3)
This type of graph is used to show change over time.
What is a Line Graph?
Mountains and Volcanoes can be found when two tectonic plates collide. The boundary at that collision is called this.
What is a Convergent Boundary?
Compaction and Cementation turn this small collection of sand, rocks, and minerals into sedimentary rocks.
What are sediments?
Earth is divided into five distinct spheres: Biosphere, Hydrosphere, Geosphere, Atmosphere, and Cryosphere. Freezing and thawing in rocks is an example of an interaction between what two spheres?
What are the Geosphere and Cryosphere?
The H-R Diagram relates luminosity and temperature to colors and age of stars. Our Sun is in THIS category of stars, which contains the most stars in the diagram.
What is Main Sequence?
_______ is multiple trials of a single experiment; whereas _________ is repeating another experiment to compare results.
What are Repetition and Replication?
The lithosphere is a semi-solid layer that is between what two layers of the Earth?
What are the Crust and the Mantle?
Radioactive dating gives you the precise age of a mineral using THIS type of dating, while using the Law of Superposition is THIS type of dating which gives you an approximate age based on rock layers and fossil records.
What are Absolute Dating and Relative Dating?
Weather and Climate are two inter-related concepts with one primary difference of THIS.
The time period that they measure. Weather is immediate conditions whereas Climate is an average of weather over a long time.
This unit of measurement is approximately 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) and measures the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
What is an Astronomical Unit?