Variables
Scientific Method
Vocabulary
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Independent variable
What is the variable you intentionally change?
100
The first step in the scientific method
What is the purpose, question or problem?
100
An organized procedure to study something under controlled conditions
What is an experiment?
100
Actual age in years of an event or object
what is absolute age
100
The hypothesis that Earth's continents move on Earth's surface
What is continental drift?
200
Controlled variable
What is a variable that is kept the same?
200
The 2nd step in the scientific method
What is the hypothesis?
200
Numbered, detailed steps in the experiment process
What are procedures?
200
the layer in earth's upper mantle and directly under the lithosphere in which rock is soft and weak because it is close to melting
What is the asthenosphere?
200
On a topographic map, the difference in elevation form one contour line to the next
What is contour interval?
300
The variable you observe changes in
What is the dependent variable?
300
A tentative explanation for an observation or scientific problem that can be tested by further investigation
What is a hypothesis
300
Data or observations that are expressed in numbers
What is quantitative?
300
property of a mineral that describes its tendency to break along flat surfaces
What is cleavage?
300
To gather information using your senses
What is to observe?
400
The dependent variable in the paper airplane experiment
What is distance flown?
400
The final step in the scientific method
What is the conclusion?
400
Data or observations that are descriptive and do not use numbers
What is qualitative?
400
One thing that should be in the conclusion
What is analysis of data, hypothesis supported or not or concluding thought?
400
A line on a topographic map that joins points of equal elevation
What is a contour line?
500
The independent variable in the paper towel lab
What are the brands of paper towel?
500
This is the step where you will most likely have a table and/or graph
What is data analysis?
500
A group used in an experiment that is used for comparison, no experimenting is done to it
What is a control group?
500
A boundary along which two plates carrying continental crust push together
What is continnetal continental collision?
500
A circulation pattern in which material is heated and rises in one area, then cools and sinks in another area - causes the plates to move
What is convection current?
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