Scientific Method
What is the term for an educated prediction?
Hypothesis
A procedure that allows us to analyze and make sense of the world.
Scientific method
Occurs when loose rocks fall down a steep slope.
Rockfall
The rapid movement of a large amount of mud.
Mudflow
How were the Great Lakes formed?
Glaciers
How do we make observations?
Use the five senses
Deposition of loads from streams in a fan-shaped pattern.
Delta
The extremely slow movement of material downslope.
Creep
The sudden and rapid movement of a large amount of material downslope.
Landslide
Which dune is Michigan famous for?
Sleeping Bear Dunes
Identify three things that should never be done during a lab.
Run
Skip around in the procedure
Wait until the end of a lab to record observations
Not follow the procedure
Gather materials while conducting the lab
Not wear safety goggles
An area of shoreline that is made up of material deposited by waves and currents.
Beach
General term for all of the materials carried and deposited by a glacier.
Glacial drift
A large mass of moving ice that forms by the compacting of snow by natural forces.
Glacier
What is causing ice caps and glaciers to melt?
Climate change
After completing the procedure and before making a conclusion, what must you do?
Analyze data and/observations
Any process in which oxygen combines with an element or substance, either slowly, as in the rusting of iron, or rapidly, as in the burning of wood.
Oxidation
A fan-shaped deposit that forms on dry land.
Alluvial fan
Mounds of wind-deposited sand.
Dune
What will eventually happen to the sun? How will it affect Earth?
Burn out. Freeze and life will cease to exist.
What is a critical thing to remember when writing a hypothesis?
Restate the question in your answer
Define chemical weathering.
Chemical weathering is the breakdown of a rock's appearance and composition.
Thick deposits of windblown, fine-grained sediment.
Loess
A long, narrow island, usually made of sand, that forms parallel to the shoreline a short distance offshore.
Barrier island
The inner core is made of mostly _____.
Iron