Science Skills
Chemistry
Rocks & Minerals
Layers & Tectonics
About Mr. W
100
This is how many millimeters are in 3.6 centimeters.
What is 36?
100
These are the names of the three subatomic particles.
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons.
100
This is the only type of rock that magma can turn into.
What is igneous rock?
100
This is the layer that tectonic plates are made of.
What is the lithosphere?
100
Name at least one college that Mr. Watkins has a degree from.
What is Hamline University or Arizona State University?
200
This is the type of graph you would use to show changes in data over time.
What is a line graph?
200
If a substance has a pH of 12, it would be a(n):
What is base?
200
This is the process that breaks rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
200
This is the densest layer.
What is the inner core?
200
Where did Mr. Watkins and his wife, Lacee, go on their honeymoon?
What is Honduras?
300
The name of the variable that we change in an experiment to see how it affects something else.
What is the independent variable?
300
On the periodic table, the top number represents the number of ______________ in an atom.
What are protons?
300
How a mineral reflects light is known as its:
What is luster?
300
These are what cause tectonic plates to move.
What are convection currents?
300
How many times Mr. Watkins has gone sky diving.
What is two?
400
The two words that we use when writing a hypothesis?
What are if and then?
400
Is air a mixture or a pure substance?
What is a mixture?
400
This is where sedimentary rocks are likely to form:
What is under large bodies of water?
400
These are the main two metals that the core is composed of.
What are iron and nickel?
400
I care more about ________________ (3 words) than what you know or what you do.
What is who you are?
500
Variables that are kept the same between all groups in an experiment.
What are controlled variables?
500
Name at least three pieces of evidence for a chemical change.
What are: color change, odor/smell, gas is produced, light is given off, temperature change, solid is produced
500
This is the name of the metamorphic rock that granite turns into:
What is gneiss?
500
These are the four landforms/events that can form at convergent boundaries.
What are trenches, volcanoes, mountains, and earthquakes.
500
These are the names of Mr. Watkins' three daughters.
What is Vella (3), Sundae (Sunnee - 1), Keziah (Kizzee - 7 months)
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