CER
Scientists use this to make a statement that answers a question.
What is a claim?
This is the oldest layer in a fossil record.
What is the bottom?
The theory that Earth’s surface is made of moving plates is called this.
What is plate tectonics?
This fossil fuel forms when plants die, are buried, and compressed in ancient swamp forests.
What is coal?
Mrs. Mahinan earned her bachelor’s degree from this university.
What is Long Beach State?
This part of CER provides data or observations that support the claim.
What is evidence?
This rare metal in rock layers suggests an asteroid once struck Earth.
What is iridium?
When two plates move away from each other, this type of boundary forms.
What is a divergent boundary?
This fossil fuel forms from tiny marine organisms that died, absorbed carbon from the sun, and sank to the ocean floor with moderate heat.
What is oil?
This is Mrs. Mahinan's ethnicity.
What is Filipino?
This explains how the evidence supports the claim using scientific principles.
What is reasoning?
This was formed by the pressure of the asteroid impact.
What is quartz?
When plates collide and one slides beneath another, this occurs.
What is subduction?
This fossil fuel forms from tiny marine organisms that experienced more heat and pressure than oil.
What is natural gas?
These two teachers are Mrs. Mahinan's work best friends.
Who are Mr. Li and Ms. Flores?
The method of collecting information using your five senses.
What is an observation?
Scientists observed this major loss of species after the asteroid impact.
What is extinction?
Earthquakes often occur at these boundaries where plates slide past each other.
What is a transform boundary?
Coal is most commonly found in these types of regions.
What are warm and humid areas?
Mrs. Mahinan's height is this tall.
What is 5’2”?
The explanation you make based off your observations, using past knowledge & experiences.
What is an inference?
This dark layer found worldwide shows that massive fires burned after the impact.
What is soot?
This is the boundary California sits on top of. Include type and name.
What is San Andreas, a transform boundary?
Oil and gas deposits are often found in these areas near plate boundaries, such as deserts, arctic zones, and river deltas.
What are convergent collision and subduction plate boundaries?
This is the year Mrs. Mahinan graduated from high school.
What is 2019?