Experimental Design
The experimental Variable that does NOT change!
What is Control Variable!
The water found underground in the cracks and spaces in soil, sand, and rock.
What is Ground Water!
A usable stock or supply.
What is a Resource!
The edge where two tectonic plates meet.
What is Plate Boundaries or Tectonic Plate Boundaries!
Rocks formed directly from volcanic activity.
What is Igneous Rock!
The experimental variable that WE CHANGE!
What is Independent Variable!
A layer of underground rock that contains groundwater.
What is an Aquifer!
A resource that is unlikely to run out, capable of being replaced or restored as quickly as it is used.
What is Renewable or Renewable Resource!
Small solid materials, like sand, that are carried by air or water and settle at the bottom of bodies of water, such as on riverbeds or the ocean floor.
What is Sediment!
Rocks that form when minerals are deposited, usually in water, and then compacted or cemented into solid rock. They often show visible layers.
What is Sedimentary Rock!
The experimental variable that changes because we changed another variable!
What is Dependent Variable!
The process of humans artificially watering land to help plant growth.
What is Irrigation!
A resource that is unable to be restored, replaced, or made new again once used.
What is a Nonrenewable Resource!
Material made of carbon that comes from plants, animals, and their waste products.
What is Organic Matter!
Rocks changed over a long period of time while massive amounts of pressure and heat are applied.
What is Metamorphic Rock!
Data that is an Observation of what was happening.
What is Qualitative Data!
The capability of a substance to allow fluids to flow through it.
What is Permeability!
Fuel (such as coal, oil, or natural gas) formed in the Earth from plant or animal remains.
What is a Fossil Fuel!
Of, or relating to, or based on a science that deals with the history of the Earth and its life especially as recorded in rocks.
What is Geologic!
What is Obsidian!
Data that is numerical and backs up the observed data.
What is Quantitative data!
The level at which the ground becomes saturated.
What is the Water Table!
A mineral-bearing rock that generally contains metal but can contain other valuable minerals, like gems.
What is Ore!
A natural process that forms and shapes the Earth's surface.
What is the Geoscience Process!
One of the oldest above water mountain chains in the world. Located on the East coast of the USA.
What is the Appalachian Mountains!