U1-Experiments
U2-Physics
U3-Energy
U4-Tectonics
U5-Weather
100
The variable that you measure in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
100
The standard units for velocity.
What is meters per second (m/s)?
100
Three types of kinetic energy.
What are radiant, thermal, motion, and sound energy?
100
This deformational force causes earthquakes.
What is shearing?
100
The deflection of winds in different directions in the northern and southern hemispheres due to the earth's rotation.
What is the coriolis effect?
200
The variable that is manipulated in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
200
The standard units for acceleration.
What is meters per second squared (m/s^2)?
200
Three types of potential energy.
What are chemical, nuclear, and gravitational?
200
The two pieces of evidence given by Alfred Wagener to support his hypothesis of Pangaea.
What are mesosaurus fossils on continents, magnetic bands on crust, or shape of continents that fit like a puzzle?
200
The effect that the coriolis effect has on an object flying through the air.
What is being unable to travel in a straight line?
300
To measure or provide numerical evidence.
What is quantify?
300
The standard units for force.
What are Newtons (N)?
300
When energy moves from one place to another.
What is energy transfer?
300
The 3 deformational forces that can alter the earth's crust.
What are compression, tension, and shearing?
300
Water that gathers in large bodies like lakes, ponds, and rivers.
What is accumulation?
400
The variable that normally goes on the X axis.
What is the independent variable?
400
The standard units for mass.
What are Kilograms (kg)?
400
When energy changes form.
What is energy transformation?
400
The three major consequences of earthquakes.
What are destruction, tsunamis, and fires?
400
The process by which water evaporates through the pores in a plant called stomata.
What is transpiration?
500
The variable that typically goes on the y axis.
What is the dependent variable.
500
The force that opposes the movement of an object on a surface.
What is Friction?
500
The three types of energy transfer that exist in the world.
What are conduction, convection, and radiation?
500
The information that a seismologist can give to a volcanologist.
What is information about volcanoes vibrations that tell if it will erupt?
500
The reason that there is not just one wind cell in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemisphere.
What is uneven distribution of heat on the earth's surface that causes convection currents?
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