Scientific Method Vocabulary
Things you keep the same to make a quality experiment.
What is control variable?
A system where nothing can enter or exit.
What is closed system?
When light bounces off of a surface.
What is reflect?
Where in the United States hail storms are most common.
What is central United States?
Name of the supercontinent that is believed to once have existed.
What is Pangea?
Something that you plan to make different during an experiment.
What is independent variable?
When water droplets in the air make contact with a cold cup and change from a gas back to a liquid.
What is condensation?
An object that does not allow any light to pass through it.
What is opaque?
The reason that air rises when it is warmed.
Change in density (and kinetic energy).
Makes the air less dense and increases the kinetic energy the particles have.
Names of the different types of plate boundaries.
What are divergent, transform, and convergent?
Data you measure using tools and numbers (mass, length, time, volume, etc)
What is Quantitative Data?
TWO components of a cup that kept it hot/cold for longer.
What is lid, double wall, vacuum, material (like metal over plastic)?
How light travels.
What is in a straight line?
The three types of heat transfer.
What are conduction, convection, and radiation?
Evidence that Wegner used to try to prove the existence of Pangea.
What are rock layers, fossils, glaciers, and mountain ranges?
Something you measure/look for during the experiment.
What is dependent variable?
Matter has m_____ and takes up s______.
What is mass and space?
Part of the eye that turns the light entering the eye into a signal that is then understood by the brain.
What is retina?
What clouds are made of.
What are water droplets, ice crystals, and molecules of gas?
The process of breaking down rocks and minerals into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
What is Qualitative Data?
The total amount of energy in ALL of the particles of an object (all of the energy from each a particle added together).
What is thermal energy?
What input the brain responds to when there are multiple inputs.
What is strongest?
The two components to creating a large storm.
What are higher humidity and large differences between ground and atmospheric temperatures?
When one plate sinks under another (either due to age or difference in density).
What is subduction?