Scientific Method
The steps a scientist uses to solve scientific problems.
What is the Scientific Method
A mixture of gases surrounding a planet
What is the atmosphere?
The moon doesn’t make its own light, this object illuminates the moon.
What is the sun?
This is what the Earth’s outer layer is made of.
What is hard, solid rock?
This is the process that changes rock material into different types of rocks.
What is the Rock Cycle?
The number of variables that is changed in a controlled experiment
What is 1?
The sphere that contains all of the living things on a planet.
What is the biosphere?
The light from the sun travels in this direction.
What is straight lines?
Geologist look for these in landforms and geologic events in order to better understand Earth.
What is Patterns?
This rock is formed when sediment is compacted and cemented together?
What is sedimentary rock?
The variables the remain the same for all testing groups
What is a control or constant?
A long, narrow groove that forms where water, lava, or other liquid flows.
What is a channel?
The amount of the moon that is always illuminated.
What is half?
These are sections of the Earth’s outer layer.
What are plates?
This type of rock forms when magma or lava cools.
What is igneous rock?
The variable that is changed in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
An event or series of events that causes changes in the geosphere, such as flowing water or lava.
What is a geologic process?
This is how much of the moon we can see from Earth.
What is half?
A plate boundary where two plates collide.
What is a convergent boundary?
This type of rock is formed through heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
The variable that is measured in an experiment?
What is the dependent variable?
Having the conditions necessary to support life
What is habitable?
The moon moves to different positions around the Earth, we see different amounts of the illuminated half. These are called?
What are moon phases?
This plate boundary is the reason why the Mesosaurus Dinosaur fossil was found on two separate continents with an ocean between them.
What is a divergent boundary?
When any type of rock is broken down into sediment.
What is weathering and erosion?