In science, an educated guess based off research and experience is called this
What is a hypothesis?
The term HeLa is used to identify a particular lineage of immortal cells and is an abbreviation of this Roanoke native's name
What is Henrietta Lacks?
An astronomical unit (AU) is equivalent to the distance between these two objects in the universe
What is the Sun and Earth?
The era in which dinosaurs inhabited the planet
What is the Mesozoic Era?
The three types of rocks
The acronym CER stands for these three words
What is claim, evidence, and reasoning?
Three identifications that must be considered in order to obtain a fair subject selection in experiments
What are age, location, race/ethnicity, education level, political affiliation, annual income, and religion?
When the universe was forming, all of the matter, energy and space we could observe was compressed to an area of zero volume and infinite density called this.
What is a singularity?
The first living organisms to photosynthesize
What are cyanobacteria?
The study of the rocks
What is the geology?
The difference between quantitative and qualitative data
What is quantitative data is numerical and qualitative data is observations?
UVA recently named a building after Dr. Vivian Pinn, who was the sole female and Black member of her medical class. She was also the first Black person to lead an academic department at this HBCU
What is Howard University?
Because a comet consists of these two materials, they are unable to land on Earth's surface
What are dust and ice?
Aside from rocks, there are two other main things scientists study to learn about past climate
What are tree rings and ice cores?
What are the lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, inner core, and outer core?
When reading a graduated cylinder, you should measure from the bottom of this disk
What is the meniscus?
Our guest speaker, Dr, Rispoli taught us that children are unable to consent to partaking in scientific experiments, but they are able to express approval or disapproval in participating. The name for approval is called this.
What is assent?
What are two of the four types of galaxies we discussed?
What are spiral, barred, irregular, and elliptical?
Any animal or plant preserved in the rock record of the Earth that is characteristic of a particular span of geologic time or environment
What is an index fossil?
The theory proposed by Alfred Wegener in 1912
What is continental drift?
If I want to know what type of music is the best to listen to when studying, the type of music is this type of variable
What are the Nuremberg Trials?
Our guest lecturers Mark Wallace and Dr. Tony Beasley have careers in astrophysics at these two different organizations
What are the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory?
Name three of the five types of fossils we discussed
What are petrified fossils, molds and casts, carbon films, preserved remains, and trace fossils?
The roots of a plant cracking a rock is an example of this
What is weathering?