The 3 main skills that scientist use to study and understand the world are
What is observing, inferring, and predicting
100
The Earth systems that include the solid, rocky outer layer and the mixture of gasses that surround the Earth.
What is the lithosphere and the atmosphere?
100
Volcanic belts and earthquakes mostly form and occur along _____
What is plate boundaries?
100
Along plate boundaries where plate movement has caused stored energy the sudden movement of rock in an _______ is _____.
What is an earthquake is likely?
100
Inside the earth molten material is called ________ on the earth it is called __________
What is magma and lava?
200
Energy transfer by direct contact is _____ and through space is __________
What is conduction & radiation?
200
The parts of the Earth's system that includes all living things & all of Earth's oceans, lakes, and rivers.
What is the biosphere & the hydrosphere.
200
Wegener's evidence for Continental Drift was ________, _______, __________________
What is fossils, land forms, and ancient climate zones?
200
On the given graph the water temperature along the y-axis is the _______ variable and the time along the x-axis is the ___________ variable.
What is responding and manipulated?
200
A weak spot in Earth's crust where magma reaches the surface.
What is a volcano?
300
Scientist think that convection currents flow in Earth's _____.
What is the mantle?
300
Earth's core is made up of the ________ of _______ & _____ but is a _____ in the inner core and a ___________ in the outer core
What is metals iron & nickel but is a solid and a liquid?
300
In sea floor spreading, molten material rises from the mantle and erupts along the ______ _______ _______ which are found in _____ the Earth's oceans.
What is mid ocean ridges found in all the oceans?
300
A force that acts on the rock is _____. The three types include:
What is stress and tension, compression, and shearing?
300
At location A on the diagram, volcanoes form along this type of plate boundary.
What is spreading/diverging boundary?
400
An organized way to collect and record scientific observations is a ______ ________ & a way to interpret the data by revealing patterns is using a ____________
What is data table & a graph?
400
Earth's mantle made up of _____________ including the layers from the surface to the core: ______ _______ & ____ _______
What is convecting hot rock lithosphere, asthenosphere, lower mantle.
400
The geological theory that states that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant, slow motion is the theory of ____
____
What is Plate Tectonics?
400
A large area of nearly flat land caused by either lava flows o vertical uplifting of rock are
What is plateaus?
400
According to the diagram, a series of volcanoes form along this boundary at B because of this process.
What is subduction?
500
A possible explanation for a set of observations or an answer to a scientific question is _________________that must be _________
What is a hypothesis that is testable.
500
The movement of Earth's plates is caused by ______ in the ____.
What is convection currents in the mantle.
500
The continents were once joined together in a single landmass called ___________ that have since drifted apart is _________ _________ theory of __________ __________.
What is Pangaea and is Alfred Wegener's theory of Continental Drift.
500
The release of energy from an earthquake is called _____ waves with the first being ___________ followed by ______.
What is seismic waves & p- or primary waves s- or secondary waves?
500
The small earthquakes that occur around a volcano before an eruption is triggered by _________