Scientific Method
Weather
Matter
Minerals
Rocks
100
Guess
What is a hypothesis
100
Barometer
What is an instrument that measures air pressure?
100
Atom
What is a basic unit of matter?
100
Comprised of one or more elements?
What is a mineral?
100
Igneous rocks that form below the surface
What is intrusive?
200
Independent Variable
What is the variable that changes in the experiment?
200
Hygrometer
What is an instrument that measures water vapor in the air?
200
Neutrons
What are particles without electric charge in the atom's nucleus?
200
The softest mineral
What is Talc?
200
Distinguishes foliated rocks from non-foliated rocks.
What are layers?
300
Constant
What is the variable that does not change in the experiment?
300
Audio Daily Double It's Raining, It's Pouring (You have to sing the first verse!)
What is It's raining, it's pouring; The old man is snoring. He went to bed and he Bumped his head And he couldn't get up in the morning.
300
Matter
What is anything that takes up space and has mass?
300
the shape of quartz crystal
What is Hexagonal?
300
Type of rock formed when lava cools quickly.
What is extrusive igneous?
400
Dependent Variable
What is variable being measured?
400
Thermometer
What is used to measure temperature?
400
Protons
What are positively charged particles within an atom's structure?
400
profitable and useful
What is ore?
400
Type of rock formed when loose materials become pressed or cemented together or when minerals form from solutions.
What is Sedimentary?
500
Control
What is the standard by which your results can be compared?
500
Anemometer
What is used to measure wind speed?
500
liquid becomes a gas here
What is boiling point?
500
As magma cools, it's ___________ combines into compounds that form a crystal structure, and becomes a mineral.
What is atoms?
500
made from broken fragments of other rocks.
What is detrital?
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