Earth Science
The type of rock that is formed by heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic?
The distance light travels in a year.
What is a light year?
The smallest unit that can live on its own and that makes up all living organisms.
What is a cell?
The amount of matter packed in set volume.
What is density?
the systematic study of the natural and physical world through observation and experimentation.
What is science?
The rock that is formed from other rocks that have been weathered, compacted, and cemented.
What is sedimentary?
The unit of measurement for distance within the solar system.
What is the astonomical unit?
The substance that all living things use to produce energy.
What is sugar?
The state of matter in which the particles vibrate in place.
What is a solid?
The variable that is measured to find the results.
What is the dependent variable?
The law that states the deepest rock layers are the oldest.
What is the law of superposition?
The force keeping the planets revolving around the sun.
What is gravity?
The organelle that plants use to produce sugar.
The state of matter in which sound waves travel the fastest.
What is a solid?
A description of what occurs. It is often expressed mathematically. Describes a consistent and universal relationship observed in nature.
What is a law?
The movement of Earth's plates caused by convection in the upper mantle.
The sun is periodically blocked when the moon is positioned between the sun and the Earth.
What is a solar eclipse?
An organism that lives on or within another organism and derives its nutrients at the expense of the host
What is a parasite?
The law that states that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
The variable that is changed or manipulated by the scientist.
What is independent variable?
the driving force of all weather on Earth.
What is the uneven heating of the Earth?
Encompasses everything that exists: all of space and time, including all matter, energy, and the structures they form, from the smallest particles to the largest galaxies
What is the universe?
The ability to maintain a stable internal environment despite changes in the external environment.
What is homeostasis?
The transfer of thermal energy from one object to another due to a temperature difference.
What is heat?
A epresentation of a phenomenon, object, structure, or system in the natural world. It's used to help understand, explain, and make predictions about something that might be too small, large, complex, or difficult to observe directly.
What is a scientific model?