Scientific Method
Plate Tectonics
Energy Transfer
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
100
What is the scientific method?
What is steps to investigate something/answer a question in science.
100
What is the root cause of plate tectonics and sea floor spreading?
What is convection currents in the mantle.
100
What direction does heat move (hot to cold or cold to hot)?
What is hot to cold.
100
What measure's an Earthquake's magnitude?
What is Richter Scale (1-10).
100
What volcano only has quiet eruptions and low silica lava?
What are Sheild Volcanoes.
200
What is one quality of a good procedure?
What is (any) steps, specific, detailed.
200
What forms at convergent plate boundaries?
What is (any) volcanoes, mountains, deep ocean trenches.
200
What rises: hot or cold?
What is hot.
200
What wave is a surface wave that moves in a circle, like ocean waves?
What are Love waves.
200
Where doe 75% of volcanoes form?
What is on plate boundaries (the Ring of Fire).
300
What is one quality of a good hypothesis?
What is (any) third person, "If...then...because," IV after if, DV after then.
300
How does an igneous rock become a metamorphic rock?
What are heat and pressure.
300
What is the following an example of: cooking a pancake on a griddle.
What is conduction.
300
What wave is the first wave to arrive and is a compression wave?
What are P-waves (Primary Waves)
300
What volcano has the steepest slope and has very explosive eruptions?
What are Cinder Cones.
400
What are the steps in order?
What is observation/question, hypothesis, procedure, materials, take data, analyze, conclusion, revise.
400
Name two pieces of evidence for Pangea.
What are (any two) continents fit like a puzzle, similar rock formation, tropical fossils on cold continents, similar fossils across continents.
400
What is the following an example of: warming your hands over a fire.
What is thermal radiation.
400
What is the following called: a massive wave created by an earthquake under the ocean.
What is a Tsunami.
400
What is one positive effect of a volcano?
What is heating/energy production, rich soil, health benefits from hot ash spas.
500
Why is the scientific method important?
What is (any) helps advance science, to learn more about the world, to help others (medicine), to make connections.
500
What layer of the earth is liquid?
What is the Outer Core.
500
What is the following an example of: warm air filling a room to make it warm.
What is convection.
500
Name one area an earthquake can occur.
What is on a plate boundary (convergent, transform, divergent).
500
What determines the type of volcano that will form? (two things!)
What are the type of lava (minerals) and the temperature.