Scientific Process
A guess or prediction about what will happen in an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
Water that falls from the sky as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation
Hot, melted rock found within a volcano
What is magma?
The long-term pattern of weather in a specific area over many years.
What is climate?
The largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean.
The step where you look closely at something using your five senses.
What is observation?
A large, spinning storm with strong winds that forms over warm ocean water.
What is a hurricane
The giant puzzle pieces of solid rock that make up the Earth's outer layer.
What are tectonic plates
A gas humans breathe out and plants take in, which traps heat in the air.
What is carbon dioxide?
The rise and fall of ocean water caused by the moon's gravity.
What are the tides?
The information and numbers you collect during an experiment.
What is data
Fluffy, white clouds that look like cotton balls on a sunny day.
What are cumulus clouds?
The supercontinent that existed millions of years ago when all the land was connected.
What is Pangaea?
Energy from the sun or wind that doesn't cause carbon pollution.
What is renewable energy?
The deepest known part of the ocean.
What is the Mariana Trench?
A step-by-step test done to prove or disprove a hypothesis.
What is an experiment
The blanket of air and gases that surrounds the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
The Earth's layer directly below the crust
What is the mantle?
The melting of these massive rivers of ice causes sea levels to rise.
What are glaciers?
Underwater mountains formed by volcanoes at the bottom of the sea.
What are seamounts?
A variable that does not change in a scientific experiment
What is a controlled variable?
The primary scientific instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure, which helps predict short-term weather changes
What is a barometer?
The primary metal in the Earth's core
What is iron (Fe)?
The warming of Earth because gases act like a blanket trapping the sun's heat.
What is the greenhouse effect?
A vast, extremely flat, and featureless area of the deep ocean floor, usually found at depths between 3,000 and 6,000 meters (9,800 to 19,700 feet).
What is an abyssal plain?