a repetition that attempts to improve a design or a product
What is an iteration
100
investigating an analysis of example or occurrence that has happened. You can use these to learn from past experiences.
What is a case study?
100
Waves that register on the seismometer first
What are P waves
100
Difference between magma and lava
What is magma is underground and lava is above ground
100
solar heating that does not use solar panels, but uses design instead to retain heat and cooling
What is passive solar
200
the amount of matter in a given amount of space
What is density?
200
solid fragments of material that come from rock and are carried by wind, water or ice
What is sediment?
200
How scientists determine where an earthquake is located
What is triangulation
200
This is where most volcanoes located
What is The Ring of Fire
200
Name the eight planets in the solar system
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune,
300
the upward force that keeps objects floating
What is buoyancy?
300
Two ways erosion can be managed
What are retaining walls, vegetation, sea walls, jetties
300
difference between focus and epicenter
What is the focus is where the earthquake happens and the epicenter is the point on the earth where it occurs.
300
3 types of volcanoes
What is shield, composite or stratovolcano, and cinder cones.
300
What are three health benefits of gratitude?
What is better relationships, improved physical health, improved mental health, enhances empathy, better sleep, improved self esteem, increased mental strength
400
resistance to flow, thick consistency
What is viscous?
400
the movement of soil or materials from one place to another.
What is erosion
400
Name 4 major plates
What are North American plate, Eurasian Plate, South American Plate, Pacific Plate, African Plate, Australian Plate, Antarctic Plate.
400
A volcanic flood, a flood filled with volcanic debris
What is a lahar?
400
What was the point of the Golden Record
What is to attach a record to the Voyager spacecraft in case intelligent life finds it. It tells them our location, what is on earth, and that we are a peaceful people.
(all hail our alien overlords)
500
When writing an experiment, what are 5 things you need to have?
What is a problem, a hypothesis, variables, criteria and constraints, materials list, written out procedure, data table, graph, conclusion
500
Two examples of erosion from a case study or from your erosion walk
What is Jump Off Joe, Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, The Dust Bowl, landslides, and examples from the walk you did with your teacher are all possible answers.
500
Explain subduction
What is where the heavier oceanic plate made of basalt converges with a lighter continental plate made of granite. The oceanic plate goes underneath the continental plate, eventually melting, then magma moves up through cracks and forms volcanoes.
500
Volcanoes that do not happen on plate boundaries happen here (like Hawaii)
What is a hot spot?
500
4 scientific concepts that need to be understood for flight (drones)