Scientific Method
Plate Tectonics
Properties of Water
Ocean Chemistry
Waves & Tides
100

The variable that a researcher intentionally changes in an experiment to observe its effect on another variable  

What is the manipulative variable?

100

Two plates grind past each other at this boundary

What is a transform boundary?

100

When you sweat, ___ is leaving your body

What is heat?
100

As you go deeper in the ocean ___increases and ____decreases

What is salinity and temperature?

100

The very top of a wave


What is the crest?

200

An 'educated guess' based on observations and prior knowledge, that can be tested for

What is a hypothesis?

200

what forms at transform boundaries


Earthquakes only

200

The property of water that causes water to pool up into a water droplet on your windshield?

What is cohesion?

200

What is salinity?

The amount of salt dissolved in water

200

The very bottom of a wave

What is the trough?

300

The variables in an experiment that are unchanged, or kept constant throughout the experiment 

What is the controlled variables?

300

What forms at divergent boundaries?


Rift valley, mid-ocean ridge, underwater volcanoes, earthquakes

300

When ice freezes over a lake, it acts like ____ protecting the marine organisms

What is insulation?

300

When the amount of H= ions in the water starts to increase, lowering the overall pH of the oceans

What is Ocean Acidification?

300

The type of tide that occurs when the tide is coming in

What is a flooding tide?

400

Why should you repeat an experiement?


To ensure similar results, similar results are reliable

400

What fuels continental drift?

Convection currents

400

Water molecules are ____ molecules because the oxygen end is slightly negative and the hydrogen end is slightly positive

What is polar?

400


What are ways we can decrease the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere/ways we can decrease our ecological footprint?

Planting trees, using public transportation or walking/biking, using electric vehicles, eating less meat, using renewable resources like solar and wind power(etc...)

400

When the overall tidal bulge is really small, resulting in a minimal difference between high and low tides. occurs during first quarter and last quarter moons

What is neap tide?

500

What are some examples of unreliable research resources? (2 minimum for correct answer)


Websites such as personal blogs, forums, social media posts, advertising or biased websites

500

When a fluid (like liquid or gas) is heated unevenly, causing the warmer, less dense parts to rise while the cooler, denser parts sink, creating a continuous circulation pattern that transfers heat from one area to another

How does a convection current work?

500

The property of water is responsible for coastal areas having a mild climate?

What is high specific heat?

500

Some marine organisms use this to make their hard skeleton or shell, which is becoming less abundant in an acidic ocean

What is calcium carbonate?

500

The type of tide that occurs when there is a full or new moon, and the tidal bulge is higher than normal resulting in higher high tides and lower low tides

What are spring tides?

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