Data & Graphs
The best graph to use when showing change over time
What is a line graph?
All matter is made up of these.
What are atoms?
A naturally occurring, inorganic solid with a definite crystalline structure.
What is a mineral?
The reason why Earth's crust is broken into plates.
What is to vent the heat trapped inside the Earth.
An opening in the ground where gas, ash, and lava can escape.
What is a volcano?
All scientific investigations start with this.
What is a question?
This condition exists because all matter has mass and takes up space.
What is density?
The process where rocks change due to being exposed to different conditions.
What is the rock cycle?
Types of plate boundaries where earthquakes can occur.
What are convergent, divergent, and transform?
These are the 2 types of waves generated by earthquakes.
What are P and S waves?
This is a disadvantage of using a bar graph to display data.
What is showing small differences in data?
The number of neutrons in an atom of Cobalt that has an atomic number of 27 and an atomic mass of 59.
What is 32?
The hardest mineral known to man.
What is a diamond?
This process plate recycling only occurs at convergent plate boundaries.
What is subduction?
The type of volcano found in the greatest number in Arizona.
What is a cinder cone?
This is the type of variable measured during an experiment.
What is the dependent variable
The reason heated fluids rise.
What is fluids expand causing their density to decrease?
Igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks are classified by what.
What is the process of how they formed?
Theory supported by similar fossil evidence found on continents now separated by oceans.
What is the Theory of Continental Drift?
The type of fault that causes most large whole ocean tsunamis.
What is a reverse fault?
A type of graph that shows proportional change of data over time.
What is an area graph?
The name of a fluid that has properties of both a liquid and a solid.
What is a non-Newtonian fluid?
It is what limestone is to marble.
What is a parent rock?
This location is important to geologists because they can see new crust actively forming..
What is Iceland?
during an earthquake, this process causes damage to buildings built on unstable ground.
What is liquifaction?