The word in the scientific method that means "educated guess".
What is the hypothesis?
100
This is a mountain that forms as molten rock that flows from a volcano.
What is a volcano?
100
This is when the moon passes between the sun and the earth.
What is a solar eclipse?
100
The major tectonic plates are named after the _____________it carries.
What is continent or ocean?
100
These are the parts that make up the solid earth.
What is inner core, mantle, and crust?
200
This is an organized process used to find answers to questions about the world by conducting and analyzing an experiment.
What is the scientific method?
200
This is a volcano shaped like a bowl in the middle with long gentle slopes made by basaltic lava flows.
What is a shield volcano?
200
This is when the earth comes between the sun and the moon.
What is a lunar eclipse?
200
The theory that at some time in the past, all the continents were connected together into a huge land mass called this.
What is Pangaea?
200
________ often occurs at a divergent boundary.
What is sea-floor spreading?
300
This is the variable that does not change throughout the entire experiment.
What is the constant/control?
300
This refers to the volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean.
What is Ring of Fire?
300
A solar eclipse would occur during this phase of the moon.
What is a new moon?
300
The mantle is the earth's thickest layer and is mostly made up of this.
What is magma, or melted rock.
300
A transform boundary is a boundary where two plates slide past one another. The geological event that will most likely occur along a transform boundary is ____________
What is an earthquake?
400
This is the variable that changes because the scientist manipulates it.
What is the independent variable?
400
These are circular or oval cones made up of small pieces of lava from a single vent (hole) that have been blown into the air, cooled, and fallen around the vent.
What are cinder cones?
400
This geological theory states that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant, slow motion.
What is plate tectonics?
400
The earth's core is made up of this.
What is nickel and iron?
500
This is something you must do before you make a hypothesis.
What is make observations?
500
These are landforms that are formed at the subduction zone.
What are mountains and volcanoes?
500
This is the process of adding more crust to the ocean floor.
What is sea-floor spreading?
500
Rocks formed when other rocks are changed by heat and pressure are classified as ________.