Scientific Method
This is the part of the experiment you change on purpose.
What is the independent variable?
This stage is when the sun heats up water and turns it into vapor.
What is evaporation?
The outermost layer of Earth where we live.
What is the crust?
Heat moving through direct contact is called this.
What is conduction?
Newton’s 3rd Law says every action has this.
What is an equal and opposite reaction?
The first step of the Problem Solving Process.
What is Define?
A testable statement usually written as "If..., then..., because..."
What is a hypothesis?
This is when water vapor cools and turns into clouds.
What is condensation?
This type of boundary is when two plates move apart.
What is a divergent boundary?
This kind of heat transfer happens in liquids or gases like air or water.
What is convection?
In a crash, both objects feel this.
What is the same amount of force?
This is when the app shows something back to the user.
What is Output?
This kind of data includes numbers, like temperature or height.
What is quantitative data?
This stage includes rain, snow, or hail falling from the sky.
What is precipitation?
Earthquakes often occur at this type of boundary where plates slide past each other.
What is a transform boundary?
This is a material that slows down heat transfer.
What is an insulator?
This object moves less in a collision: a heavy truck or a small bike?
What is the heavy truck?
An app remembering your high score uses this.
What is Storage?
This is the final step of the scientific method where you share what you learned.
What is communicating results?
The process where plants release water vapor from their leaves.
What is transpiration?
This happens when one plate goes under another.
What is subduction?
A metal spoon feels colder than a wooden spoon in ice water because of this.
What is metal being a better conductor of heat?
If two students push off each other on ice, this is what happens.
What is they move in opposite directions?
The step where you test your solution in the problem-solving process.
What is Try?
In the experiment, “If the water temperature increases, sugar dissolves faster,” identify the independent and dependent variables.
What are temperature (independent) and dissolving rate (dependent)?
Name two ways humans can affect the water cycle.
What are cutting down trees and paving roads?
These landforms are often created when plates converge.
What are mountains or volcanoes?
Heat from the sun reaching Earth without touching it is this kind of transfer.
What is radiation?
This safety device uses Newton's 3rd Law to protect passengers.
What is a seatbelt?
In a quiz app, “If the answer is correct, then show ‘Well done!’” is an example of this.
What is processing or if/then logic?