Plate Tectonics
A name for when two plate boundaries collide
Convergent Boundary
The nurseries of stars
An if, then statement that makes an educated guess
A hypothesis
How many light years (or minutes) is the Earth from the sun?
Green and White
A name for when two plate boundaries separate.
Divergent Boundary
The sun is in this point of it's life cycle.
Main Sequence
The variable we change on purpose
Independent Variable
This field of STEM which combines computer science and robust datasets, to enable problem-solving. It also encompasses sub-fields of machine learning and deep learning.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The Brookwood Song
No matter where my future calls,
My life inside these happy halls,
Will glisten like the yonder sea
For Brookwood's part of me.
Where'er the stars may guide me,
I will always be
A lifelong part of Brookwood
For Brookwood's part of me.
The willowed pond, the playing field,
The lifelong friendships firmly sealed,
The heron weathervane above,
This is the world I love.
Where'er the stars may guide me,
I will always be
A lifelong part of Brookwood School
For Brookwood's part of me.
A name for when a denser plate goes underneath a less dense plate.
The phase when stars enter "old age"
Red Giant/Red Supergiant
The variable we measure to see if there is change
A process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer.
Algorithm
The year Brookwood was founded
1956
When two plates slide past each other with jagged edges, they often get caught on each other. When they get caught, pressure builds. When enough pressure has built up to push the jagged edges past each other, this releases energy in the form of this natural phenomena.
An Earthquake!
The distance light travels in 1 year
A lightyear
A variable we keep the same so it does not have an effect on our experiment.
A control variable
American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose influential book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.
The name Brookwood was first incorporated as
The Essex Country Day School
When sediment is subducted into the mantle, it often can get brought back up to the crust to form this.
A Volcano
The process which creates energy that allows stars to shine
Nuclear Fusion
If (independent variable) changes +/-, Then (dependent variable) changes +/-.
The hypothesis formula
American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first African-American woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
Dr. Mae Carol Jemison
How many heads of school has Brookwood had?
Six