Earth Science
This is the outermost solid layer of the Earth.
What is crust?
Matter is anything that has ______ and takes up space.
What is mass?
The first step in the scientific method is to make a ____.
What is an observation?
Water freezing into ice is an example of this kind of change.
What is a physical change?
A group of parts that work together as a whole
What is a System?
These are the 4 main branches of Earth Science.
What are geology, meteorology, oceanography, and astronomy?
The smallest unit of an element is called a ____.
What is an atom?
A testable statement or prediction is called a ____.
What is a hypothesis?
All life forms belong to this Earth system
What is the Biosphere
This system is made of gases surrounding the planet
What is the atmosphere?
The layer beneath the crust that is made of semi-solid rock.
What is the mantle?
This type of matter has a definite shape and volume.
What is a solid?
This variable is the one you change in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
The rigid outer layer of the Earth
What is the Lithosphere?
This term describes how Earth‘s systems work together as a whole
What is the Earth system?
This layer of Earth is responsible for generating the magnetic field, e.g. gravitational pull.
What is the outer core?
This table organizes all known elements by their properties.
What is the periodic table?
This is the step where you record and study the results of your test.
What is analyze data?
How close a result is to the correct answer
What is Accuracy?
The frozen part of the hydrosphere, including glaciers and ice caps
What is the cryosphere?
Plate tectonics explains the movement of these large sections of crust.
What are tectonic plates?
This is the number of protons in an atom, also called its atomic number.
What is the atomic number?
A controlled experiment tests only ___ variable at a time.
What is one?
The variable that changes in response to the one you test
What is the Dependent Variable?
Rain moving from the atmosphere to the hydrosphere is an example of this type of interaction
What is a sphere-to-sphere interaction?