Scientific Method
Rocks/Minerals
Earth
Weathering, Erosion, Deposition
Other Science Things!
100
Making an educated guess about the answer to a testable question.
What is a hypothesis
100
Any nonliving solid that has a crystal form.
What is a mineral?
100
The layer below the Earth's crust.
What is the mantle?
100
The process of moving weathered rock from one place to another.
What is erosion?
100
The name of the plate boundaries that push apart.
What is divergent boundaries.
200
The variable in an experiment that is changed.
What is an independent variable
200
A natural solid that is made of one or more minerals.
What is a rock?
200
The theory that Earth's crust is divided into plates that are always moving.
What is plate tectonics?
200
The process of rock breaking apart.
What is weathering?
200
The point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake is called this.
What is the epicenter
300
The variable in the experiment that we keep the same.
What is a constant
300
A rock that forms when magma or lava hardens.
What is an igneous rock?
300
The center layer of the earth.
What is the inner core
300
The dropping or settling of eroded materials.
What is deposition?
300
The scale used to measure the hardness of minerals.
What is the Mohs Scale
400
A specific question where one variable is changed. Results can be observed or measured.
What is a testable question.
400
A rock that forms when earth processes change the texture and the mineral content or rock
What is a metamorphic rock?
400
The outer layer that makes up the core of the Earth.
What is the outer core
400
Very small pieces of rock such as sand and silt.
What is sediment?
400
The name of the plate boundaries that slide past each other.
What is transform boundaries.
500
The variable in an experiment that changes based on the independent variable.
What is a dependent variable.
500
Sediment that gets cemented together under pressure. Can have fossils inside.
What is a sedimentary rock?
500
The name of plate boundaries that push together.
What is convergent boundaries.
500
Name three different ways that weathering can occur.
What is gravity, water, wind, living things, chemicals.
500
The process used in the Rock Cycle to turn a sedimentary rock into a metamorphic rock.
What is heat and pressure.
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