Think Like A Scientist
Observation requires the use of these five senses.
What are hearing, touch, taste, smell, and sight?
This type of rock is made by volcanic activity.
What is igneous?
The lithosphere is another word for this thinnest layer of Earth.
What is the crust?
This is the number of millimeters in a centimeter.
What is ten?
The first week, we learned about two types of data. This type of data includes measurements, values and amounts that can be expressed in numbers, such as six seven.
What is quantitative?
Any one of the three things the candle I ate was made out of.
What are daikon, parsnip or almond?
We used this chemical in our crystal growing lab.
What is epsom salts/ magnesium sulfate?
This type of crust is thinner and denser than continental crust.
What is oceanic?
This is the number of feet in a mile.
What is 5,280?
This type of data describes the characteristics or qualities of something.
What is qualitative?
Slim Jim Morrison is this kind of snake.
What is a Rosy Boa?
This category of different types of rocks are considered precious and often cut and polished to enhance beauty.
What are gems?
These are vibrations that move through the Earth like ripples in a pond.
What are seismic waves?
The father of continental drift.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
This is a logical assumption or explanation based on your observations; using what you know to figure out what you don't.
What is an inference?
Any two of the species of fish in the tank.
What are guppies, yoyo loaches, pladdies, swordtails, siamese algae eaters, bumblee goby, or swordtail/pladdy hybrids?
Marble has lots of cool wavy patterns, indicating that it is this type of rock.
What is metamorphic?
This is the name for what happens when Earth's crust is raised vertically due to tectonic forces, leading to the elevation of landforms such as plateaus, or Devil's Tower.
What is uplift?
This was the magnitude AND the location of the largest quake ever recorded in North America.
What are 9.2 and Alaska?
This is a scientific prediction of what we think will happen in an experiement.
What is a hypothesis?
This species of bird is built out of legos on the shelf by the window.
What is a kingfisher?
In order for metamorphic or sedimentary rocks to become igneous, first them must do this.
What is melt?
Before radar & sonar, this method of dropping a weight on a rope was the best way of measuring the depth of the ocean.
What is sounding?
The San Andreas is this type of fault.
What is strike slip?