What is Science?
To gain knowledge about the natural world.
What is the goal of science?
Lava found above the ground.
What is lava?
Kind of energy held by a lake full of water behind a dam.
What is potential energy?
The scale used to measure a mineral's hardness.
What is Mohs scale?
Lines on a map that show equal elevations.
What are contour lines?
A smaller version of something that can be picked up and handled (e.g. a globe).
What is a physical model?
Sand, gravel, soil particles, and other debris from the weathering of rocks.
What is sediment?
Energy that is continuous and ever-present without limits.
What is renewable energy?
Natural, inorganic solid that has a characteristic chemical composition, an orderly internal structure, and a characteristic set of physical properties.
What is a mineral?
Forces on the Earth that create Earth's features.
What are constructive forces?
A process that guides all scientific inquiry from hypothesis to conclusion.
What is the scientific method?
Layers of sediment acted upon by heat and pressure can be formed into these over time.
What are sedimentary rocks?
These are naturally forming hydrocarbons that are often burned for fuel to produce energy.
What are fossil fuels?
Animal taken into a mine by miners to determine air quality in a mine.
What is a canary?
States that energy is neither created nor destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
A plausible explanation of what may happen in an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
Naturally formed, nonliving, Earth material composed of minerals that holds together in a firm, solid mass.
What are rocks?
Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, and Nuclear power are examples.
What are fossil fuels?
All minerals have this property and it is a more reliable property for identification than color.
What is streak?
The process of boiling crude oil to separate the different fuels that it yields.
What is refining?
This person uses models, radar, and satellites to predict future weather.
Who is a meteorologist?
These are partially melted and / or acted upon by heat and pressure.
What are metamorphic rocks?
This resource is the most-used fuel source in the world to create electricity.
What is coal?
Mass divided by volume.
What is density?
A flat representation of a three-dimensional surface.
What is a map projection?