N, S, E, W, on a compass are known as the __ directions.
What are CARDINAL directions?
Instrument that detects AND records earth waves.
What is a SEISMOGRAPH?
Earthquakes are most common at these areas.
What are EDGES of tectonic plates?
Horizontal fault direction
What is a STRIKE?
Scale that measure earthquake damage
What is the MERCALLI scale?
Name one process used to gather GIS data.
SURVEYING, RADAR, SONAR
The line passes through the Pacific Ocean.
What is the INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE?
Subduction occurs mostly at these boundaries.
What is CONVERGENT?
An atom is changed most during this reaction.
What is a FISSION reaction?
The most valuable process used to map the ocean floor.
What is ACOUSTIC SENSING?
Spring scales are used to find the ___ of an object.
What is WEIGHT?
The grinding and wearing away of ground by a glacial rock slide's force is increased by ___.
What is FRICTION?
This is a molecule, compound, and pure substance.
What is WATER?
00 latitude is measured on what line
What is EQUATOR?
A substance's state of matter is most directly affected by it ___.
What is TEMPERATURE?
Mass and gravity both help determine an object's __.
What is WEIGHT?
Aluminum is described as a ___ substance.
What is ALUMINUM?
Using a numerical scale on an instrument to collect scientific information gives this data.
What is MEASURED?
Shapes of galaxy arrangements help explain ___ matter.
What is DARK MATTER?
Studying a model of how the Himalayan Mts. formed over the years would be ___ science.
What is HISTORICAL?
Every observable process result must have an adequate ___.
What is CAUSE?
Controlled experiments only allow __ factor to be changed.
What is ONE?
The scientific process generally starts with stating this.
What is a HYPOTHESIS?
The workable explanation of what a scientist thinks is happening.
What is a SCIENTIFIC MODEL?
One of science's main purposes is to __.
to create better universe models.