How's your energy?
Think Like a Scientist
Spheres-R-Us
It's All About the Method.
Got Earth Science?
100
The ability to do work or cause change is called.
What is energy?
100
This skill involves using senses to gather information. It is what the person performing the experiment sees, hears, feels, smells, or tastes.
What is observing or observation?
100
I am the Earth's solid, rocky layer. All of the Earth's continents, islands, and ocean floor are found here.
What is the lithosphere?
100
A possible explanation for a set of observations or an answer to a scientific question.
What is a hypothesis?
100
This type of earth scientist studies the forces that change Earth's surface.
What is a geologist?
200
A log floating down a river or a ball thrown across a room is a representation of this type of energy transfer.
What is moving objects?
200
This is when a scientist explains or interprets things based on reasoning.
What is inferring or an inference?
200
This is the outermost sphere which consists of a mixture of gases (mostly nitrogen and oxygen) that surround the planet.
What is the atmosphere?
200
A statement that sums up what you learn from an experiment.
What is a conclusion?
200
This is the measure of how much matter is in an object.
What is mass?
300
This type of energy transfer can move up and down or back and forth and does not carry matter.
What are waves?
300
This variable is found on the x-axis and is the factor that the scientist changes in an experiment.
What is the manipulated variable?
300
The part of the Earth that is made up of living things and extends into all of the other spheres.
What is the biosphere?
300
Every step in the scientific method can lead back to this step.
What is pose a question?
300
The standard system of measurement used by scientists around the world.
What is the International system of Units (SI)?
400
Energy from the sun travels to earth in this way, and this type of energy does not require a medium.
What are electromagnetic waves?
400
This type of variable changes in response to the changes made by the scientist in an experiment and is found on the y-axis of a graph.
What is the responding variable?
400
This is not an Earth sphere, but I am the source of energy for many of Earth's processes.
What is the Sun?
400
These are the measurements and other observations that can be recorded in a data table, bar graph, line graph, or circle graph.
What is data?
400
This branch of science involves the study of geology, meterology, and environmental science.
What is Earth Science?
500
Heat is always transferred in this manner.
What is from a warmer object to a colder object?
500
These are the main skills scientist use to learn about the natural world.
What is observing, inferring, and predicting?
500
These are the names of the Earth's four spheres.
What are the hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere?
500
These are the 5 steps of the scientific process.
What are: * Pose a Question * Form a Hypothesis (educated guess) * Procedure (materials and instruction) * Observations (using senses) * Conclusion (was hypothesis correct?)
500
This is the measure of how much mass there is in a volume of a substance.
What is density?
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