Quarter 1
Scientific Investigation
Quarter 2
Quarter 3
Earth's Surface
100

This tools would work BEST to separate iron filings from sand. 

What is a magnet?

100

This is what I change in the investigation, there is only ONE thing. 

What is the independent variable?

100

This phase of matter is characterized by having no definite volume and takes the shape of its container.

What is gas?

100

The Earth does this on an axis, causing day and night.

What is rotates?

100

This rock is formed from harden magma.

What is igneous?

200

This instrument is used to measure wind speed.

What is an anemometer?

200

This is what I see, hear, feel, taste, or smell happening. 

What is an observation?

200

When a greater force is applied to an object, this is how will it affect the object's motion and energy.

What is move faster with greater kinetic energy?

200

Most marine life is found in this part of the ocean.

What is the continental shelf?

200

These are the layers of Earth from the outside moving in.

What are the crust, mantle, outer core, inner core?

300

This is anything that has mass and takes up space.

What is matter?

300

This is an "if, then" statement that gives my educated guess. 

What is a hypothesis?

300

The sun looking flat as it is setting is an example of this.

What is refraction?

300

These are the terrestrial planets in order from the sun. 

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

300

This rock is made when heat and erosion is applied to the other types of rocks.

What is metamorphic?

400

This is going to happen when a barometer's arrow begins to move from the right side to the left side.  

What is low pressure or a storm?

400

This is formed from my observation and what I already know.

What is an inference?

400

This does not need a medium to travel and travels in transverse waves. 

What is light?

400

Wind and temperature create this in the ocean. c

What is the creation of ocean currents?

400

This is the movement when Earth's plate slide towards each other. --> <--

What is convergent?

500

A storm becomes a hurricane at this wind speed.

What is 75 mph?

500

This is the last thing I should do after conducting my investigation. 

What is communicate the results?

500

Ultrasounds use this application of sound by using high frequency sound waves to create images.

What is technological?
500

The Sun is approximately this many years old.

What is 4.6 billion years old?

500

This is why marine life fossils may now be found in a mountainous area.

What is past ocean coverage in the are?