Experiments
Geologic Time
Heat
Simple Machines
What is the Word?
100
This is the result of the experiment that is being measured.
What is dependent variable?
100
This is the location of the oldest layer of any rock formation.
What is horizontal bottom layer?
100
This is when heat is transferred by direct contact.
What is conduction?
100
The point around which a lever pivots.
What is the fulcrum?
100
The ability of matter to burn.
What is flammability?
200
This is the thing/change that is being controlled in a experiment.
What is independent variable?
200
This is when you compare the age of one rock to another rock.
What is relative dating?
200
This is when fluid movement enables heat transfer.
What is convection?
200
The advantage that a machine provides.
What is mechanical advantage?
200
An explanation of evidence that is based on knowledge and experience.
What is inference?
300
This is the graphic representation of variables in an experiment.
What is a graph?
300
This is the law that explains the order that layers form.
What is Law of Original Horizontality?
300
This the energy form that is known as heat.
What is thermal energy?
300
The force that works against all machines.
What is friction?
300
When a land region becomes more arid through losing bodies of water as well as vegetation and wildlife.
What is desertification?
400
This is the horizontal line in a graph.
What is the X-axis?
400
This is the missing piece of geologic time due to erosion.
What is an unconformity?
400
This is the method of transfer of solar energy.
What is radiation?
400
These are three simple machines that all use the same IMA calculation.
What are incline plane, wedge, and screw.
400
The number of waves that pass a fixed point in a given amount of time.
What is frequency?
500
This the the statement that scientists are trying to prove in an experiment.
What is the hypothesis?
500
This is the principle that explains why the "cut" is younger than the thing it cuts.
What is the principle of cross-cutting?
500
This is a measurement of thermal energy. (it has three scales).
What is temperature?
500
The type of machine made up of more than one simple machine.
What is a complex machine?
500
A measure of the frequency of a wave.
What is Hertz?
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