Space
What is the Sun and all the objects that move around it?
Solar System
What is the spatial size or temporal duration of an object or geologic process?
Scale
What is a natural feature or shape on the solid surface of the Earth or another planetary body?
Landform
What is the dynamic boundary layer where our planet's solid crust, liquid water, and surrounding atmosphere meet?
Earth's Surface
What is a proposed answer to a question about the natural world?
Claim
What is the size of an object, when compared to another object?
Relative Size
What is a physical representation of an object that is larger or smaller than the real thing?
Scale Model
What is any solid piece of rock, mineral, or living material that is broken down, moved by wind, water, or ice, and dropped in a new spot?
Sediment
What is the scientific theory explaining how Earth's outer shell is divided into large, rigid slabs of rock that slowly glide over a malleable lower layer?
Plate Tectonics
What is is called to notice how two or more things are alike or different?
Compare
What is an invisible force that pulls any two objects with mass toward each other?
Gravity
What is the comparative size or amount of one part compared to the whole of other parts?
Proportion
What is the process where wind, water, or ice drop off pieces of rock and soil in a new place?
Deposition
What is the scientific idea that Earth's physical features—like valleys, mountains, and rock layers—are shaped slowly and steadily over long spans of time by ongoing, everyday processes?
What is information about the natural world that is used to support or go against a claim?
Evidence
What is the curved, repeating path that an object in space takes around another object due to gravity?
Orbit
What is a system used to measure, record, and compare the duration (time) of geological events?
Time Scale
What is the natural process where rock, soil, and other Earth surface materials are worn away and moved to new locations?
Erosion
What is an event or series of events that causes changes in the geosphere, such as flowing water or flowing lava?
Geologic Process
What is the process of making clear how your evidence supports your claim?
Reasoning
What a measure of separation between objects based on scale rather than a physical length?
Relative Distance
What is the physical size, area, or distance over which a phenomenon, pattern, or ecological process occurs.
Spacial Scale
What is the natural process that breaks down rocks, soils, and minerals on Earth's surface into smaller pieces?
What is all the liquid water and solid water (ice) on a planet?
Hydrosphere
What is a claim supported by evidence?
Scientific Argument