Scientific Method
This is a scientific question that is stated before an experiment can take place.
What is a scientific problem?
This state of matter has a volume, but not a specific shape.
What is a liquid?
This is the process by which rocks are broken down into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
This is a continuous process that constantly changes the materials such as rocks and sediments on the Earth's surface.
The meteorologist that originally came up with the idea that plates were moving around on the Earth's surface?
Who is Alfred Wegener?
This is the type of data that scientists collect that has non-numerical values such as smells or colors.
What is qualitative data?
This type of heat transfer occurs mostly in liquids and gasses as they heat up, rise, then cool off and sink.
What is convection?
This is the process where water, wind and gravity move rocks and rock particles to new locations.
What is erosion?
This rock is formed from the cooling and hardening of magma (intrusive material) or lava (extrusive material).
What is igneous rock?
This is the type of plate boundary where two plates slide past one another.
What is a transform plate boundary?
This is an educated guess that a scientist makes prior to attempting an experiment that states exactly what the scientist expects to see as a result.
What is a hypothesis?
This is the transfer of heat from one substance to another through direct contact.
What is conduction?
This type of weathering takes place when a rock is physically broken into smaller pieces.
What is mechanical/physical weathering?
This kind of rock is formed from the compaction and cementation of sediments.
What is sedimentary rock?
This is a type of plate boundary where two plates collide with one another.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
This is the variable that is specifically being tested and changed by the scientist.
What is the independent variable?
This is defined as anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
This is the process where rocks and rock particles settle or are deposited in a new location.
What is deposition?
This type of rock is formed from extreme heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
This is where two plates come into contact with one another.
What is a plate boundary?
This is the variable that is being measured to see if the experiment had any effect on it.
What is the dependent variable?
This is the transfer of heat through empty space using electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
This type of weathering takes place when there is a chemical reaction with the rocks.
What is chemical weathering?
This type of igneous rock is formed when magma cools.
What is intrusive igneous rock?
Volcanos, mountains, and island arcs can be formed at this type of plate boundary.