Clouds
Natural Disasters
Floating and Sinking
Layers of the Earth
Scientific Method and Engineering Process
150

Name two types of precipitation.

What is Rain, Snow, Sleet, Hail, or Freezing Rain?

150

Name at least three examples of natural disasters.

What is Blizzards, Tornado, Volcanoes, Tsunamis, Landslide, Dust Storms, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Dust storms, Wildfires, Sinkholes, Floods, Droughts, Earthquakes, etc.

150


What does this picture tell us about the liquids honey, water, and oil?

What is Honey is the densest liquid, followed by water. The least dense is the oil.

150

What is the layer of the Earth that we walk on every day?

What is the crust?

150

What does the acronym STEM stand for?

What is Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics?

200

What kind of cloud has made this fog?

What is stratus?

200

What natural disaster can occur directly after an earthquake?

What is a tsunami, landslide, volcanic eruption, fire, or flood?

200

Almost everything (Solids, Liquid and Gases) is made up of ____________.

What is Matter? (Atoms and molecules)

200

The Earth's Crust is broken up into giant pieces of land called...

What are plates or tectonic plates?

200

What do you do during the "improve" stage of the engineering method?

You make changes to your design and make it better.

350

When you see this type of cloud, what kind of weather does it indicate?

What is fine/ good weather?

350

Name one plate boundary that can cause a volcano to erupt.

What are divergent or convergent plate boundaries?

350

Name one reason why these blocks of the same size are not all floating.

What is The metal block is denser than the water, so it sinks. The wood and cork blocks float because they are less dense than the water.

350

What layer of the Earth is made up of liquid nickel and iron?

What is the outer core?

350

What does constraints and criteria mean?

Constraint (What you can't do, your limitations)
Criteris (The rules and requirements)

400

What are the three main cloud types?

Cirrus, Stratus and Cumulus

400

What is one type of plate boundary that causes an earthquake?

What is Transform Boundary, Convergent Boundary, or Transform Boundary (Weak Earthquake)?

400

What is the opposite force that is working against buoyancy?

What is Gravity?

400

What layer of the earth is as hot at the surface of the Sun?

What is the inner core?

400

In the scientific method, after observation, the next step would be....

What is Research?

500

The word cumulus came from a Latin word that means...

What is pile or heap?

500

The area of an Earthquake where you can feel the strongest waves.

What is the Epicenter?

500

Buoyancy is a force that always acts in the _________ direction.

What is upwards or up?

500

What are the four layers of the Earth?

What is Crust, Mantle, Inner Core, and Outer Core

500

What is the main difference between the scientific method and the engineering process?

The scientific method is used to answer a question, and the engineering process is used to solve a problem.