Science Skills
The system that scientists (and the rest of the world besides the United States) use for measurement.
What is the metric system?
All matter is made of these. Building block of all matter.
What are atoms?
The layers of the earth.
What are the crust, the mantle, the outer core, & the inner core?
Where Mx. Wender is from.
What is Maui, Hawaii?
What you should do during an earthquake.
Duck, cover, hold or evacuate.
Base unit for length in the metric system.
The meter
Anything with mass and volume.
What is matter?
One piece of evidence that supports the idea that the continents used to be connected into a supercontinent known as Pangea.
What is...
-fossil evidence
-fit of continents
-glacier evidence
-etc. ?
The thing Mx. Wender was gifted hundreds of this year.
What are paper frogs?
When one plate slides underneath another plate.
What is subduction/a subduction zone?
The things that stay the same during a scientific investigation.
What are control or constant variables?
The sub-atomic particles (the parts of an atom).
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?
The crust is split into these giant chunks
What are tectonic plates?
Mx. Wender's favorite animal.
What is a whale?
The type of plate boundary that causes mountains like the Himalayas to be made.
Convergent (continental-continental)
The one thing in a scientific investigation that you change or manipulate.
What is an independent variable?
When the atoms in a substance rearrange to form new molecules.
What is a chemical reaction?
The different types of plate boundaries (where two plates meet).
What are transform, convergent, & divergent boundaries?
The two 7th grade teachers who do not eat meat.
Who are Ms. Docherty & Ms. Knievel?
The type of plate boundary that leads to fault lines.
What are transform boundaries?
The thing, in a scientific investigation, that you measure & observe, to see how it has responded to change.
What is a dependent variable?
A pure substance made up of only one type of atom.
What is an element?
The phenomenon that is causing the continents to move.
What is convection in the mantle?
The 7th grade teachers who are in a book club togerther.
Who are Mx. Wender, Ms. Docherty, and Mx. Klehm?
The place where the the Juan de Fuca Plate goes underneath the North American plate.
What is the Cascadia Subduction Zone?