Chapter 1
Interpreting observations based on reasoning from what you already know is called
What is inferring?
What measurement would you use to find the volume of a small cardboard box?
What is cubic cm?
What part of the Earth contains its plates?
What is the lithosphere?
What causes damage days or months after a large earthquake?
What is an aftershock?
What is the outermost layer of the Earth?
What is the crust?
The variable in an experiment that is purposely changed?
What is an independent variable?
What do you multiply mass by in order to find density?
What is volume?
Which layer of the Earth is the thickest?
What is the mantle?
What is the stress force that pulls on the crust where two plates are moving apart?
What is tension?
The theory that explains that Earth's plates move very slowly in various directions?
What is plate tectonics?
Empirical evidence is data and observations that have been collected through?
What are scientific processes?
What is the official SI unit of temperature?
What is the Kelvin?
What is the Earth's atmosphere?
What is a thin envelope of gasses that surrounds Earth?
In a normal fault, the part of the fault that lies below the other part is called?
What is the footwall?
When scientists group information into categories, they are?
What is classifying?
Reliable information comes from a person or organization that is not what?
What is biased?
What are data points that do not fit with the rest of the data?
What is anomalous data?
What is the inner core made of?
What is a dense ball of metal?
What type of stress produced reverse faults?
What is compression?
What does a seismograph use to record the drum's vibrations?
What is a pen?
What must you use to analyze a scientific claim?
What is scientific reasoning?
What does a line graph show?
What is how a dependent variable changes in response to an independent variable?
The process by which rock fragments freeze to the bottom of a glacier and then are carried away when the glacier moves?
What is plucking?
The point beneath Earth's surface where rock breaks under stress and triggers an earthquake is called?
What is a focus?
In a linear graph, data fall along a?
What is a straight line?