This is the type of tree that loses its leaves every year.
What is deciduous?
100
This is the study of writing - or looking at the formation of letters.
What is graphology?
You look for loops, crossing of letters, slant of writing, spaces between letters, etc.
100
This is the type of tree that stays 'forever green'.
What is coniferous?
200
These are the four MAIN type of fingerprints.
What are arch, tented arch, whorl, and loop?
200
This is the type of wood that is the strongest, isn't alive and is in the centre of the tree's trunk.
What is the heart wood?
200
This is the type of variable that never changes.
This is the type of variable that you change to see if there will be a different outcome.
What are the control (constant) and independent (manipulated) variables?
The dependent (responding) variable is the result that occurs after the changes have occurred in the experiment.
200
This is the edge of a leaf, and can include scalloped, smooth, or serrated.
What is the lead margin?
200
This is a type of tree that is both deciduous and coniferous.
What is the larch?
300
Evidence based on an inference is called...
What is circumstantial evidence?
300
The process of the tree releasing moisture through its leaves is called _______.
What is transpiration?
300
This is the name for the display that a detective will make to track the information for a case.
What is a parade board?
300
The process of the clouds releasing moisture is called _______.
What is precipitation?
300
This is the name of a person who is thought to have committed a crime.
What is a suspect?
400
Large spaces between footprints might indicate what type of speed?
What is running/fast?
400
This is the name for the top layer of the forest.
What is the canopy or the emergent layer?
400
This is the term for a suspect's reason for why the didn't do the crime.
What is an alibi?
400
This is the name for the animals and plants that help break down dead plants into soil.
What is decomposer?
400
This is Alberta's provincial flower.
What is Alberta's Wild Rose?
500
Unique characteristics that are found on a specific shoe that aren't found on any other types (rock, worn spot) are called...
What is an accidental characteristic?
Class characteristics are something that a shoe maker meant to include - like a logo, tread pattern, etc.
500
This is the tool that asks yes or no, either or questions to help classify species of plants.
What is the dichotomous key?
500
I use __________ (info I gather) to make an _________ (conclusion or guess).