Scientific Inquiry
ROCKS!
Earth's Structure
Scienitifc Inquiry
ANYTHING GOES
100
testable and measureable
What is an able question?
100
A naturally occurring, inorganic solid
What is a mineral?
100
the five systems of Earth
What are the biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, geosphere, and atmosphere
100
when analyzing data: the average
What is the mean?
100
Name of scientist that studies rocks and minerals?
What is a geologist?
200
the variables that stay the same in an investigation
What are the constants?
200
a never ending process where matter changes shape and form but always produces a rock
What is the rock cycle?
200
the four main layers of Earth
What are the crust, mantle, inner core, outer core
200
data piece found in the middle of a data set
What is the median?
200
the term used to describe the height above sea level
What is elevation?
300
qualitative and quantatitve
What are types of observations?
300
the physical characteristics of minerals
What are density, color, luster, streak, cleavage, fracture?
300
AS _______________ increases so does _______________ (think forces)
What is mass and gravity?
300
______________________ is not _____________ when dealing with theories.
What is evidence and proof
300
Mrs. Bentley's favorite table
What is the periodic table of elements?
400
A proven pattern in nature
What is a scientific law?
400
metamorphic rocks form when this occurs.
What is heat and pressure?
400
the formula and units of density
What is m/v and g/cm3?
400
an observation always leads to an _____________
What is an inference?
400
Name the two space shuttles lost during flight
What are the challenger and the columbia?
500
can be changed and modified but never discarded
What is a scientific theory?
500
when magma/lava cools and crystallizes, this forms.
What is an igneous rock?
500
in the Earth's structure, the ___________________ floats on the ____________________.
What is lithosphere, asthenosphere
500
The correct format for a hyothesis
What is an If, then, because statement?
500
objective of the Apollo space missions that ran from 1967-1973
What is to put man on the moon?
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