Methods of Science
Two types of observations
What is quantitative and qualitative?
The 3 categories of rocks
What is igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary?
3 types of seismic waves
What are primary, secondary, and surface waves?
The 2 gasses that make up most of the atmosphere
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
97% of all Earth's water
What is our oceans?
Type of observation: there are 7 days in a week
What is quantitative?
The layers of Earth
What is crust, mantle, outer core, inner core?
What is a volcano?
The largest layer of the atmosphere
What is the exosphere?
The shape of Earth's orbit around the sun
What is a near circle?
A summary of what you have learned from a scientific experiment is called a(n)
What is conclusion?
The process that changes one rock to another
What is the rock cycle?
The man with the plan _
Who is Alfred Wegener?
The layer of the atmosphere that contains weather
What is the troposphere?
The prefix deka-
What is 10?
Observations that deal with a number of amount
What is quantitative?
Earth's 5 systems/spheres
What is biosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, geosphere?
The Ring of Fire is located
Where is the Pacific Ocean?
The air pressure on a cloudy, rainy day
What is a low pressure system?
True or false: a volcanic eruption creates an intrusive igneous rock
What is false?
Explaining or interpreting the things you observe based on reasoning from what you already know
What is inferring?
The process of _ occurs when particles dissolved in a liquid or in a melt solidify and form crystals.
What is crystallization?
The fossil fern that helped support the hypothesis of continental drift
What is glossopteris?
Contains the highest concentration of ozone.
What is the stratosphere?
The rocks in the lithosphere and the asthenosphere differ.
What is rocks in the lithosphere are rigid and hard, while the rocks in the asthenosphere flow like melting plastic?