Scientific Method
Landforms
Rocks
Minerals
Plate Tectonics
100
The first step of the scientific method.
What is the purpose?
100
something that models Earth's surface
What is a map?
100
to mean "nonliving".
What is inorganic?
100
luster
What is dull or shiny
100
theorists behind seafloor spreading and continental drift
Who are Wegener and Hess?
200
An educated guess
What is a hypothesis?
200
These are two things that map show.
What is direction and physical landforms on Earth?
200
how sedimentary rock forms
What is formed from layers of sediment?
200
identification properties of minerals
What is color, luster, streak, hardness.
200
Pangaea
What is a landmass from 10 million years ago caused by continental drift
300
the hypothesis formula
What is If ________, then _________?
300
The three main landforms
What are plains, mountains, and plateaus?
300
how metamorphic rocks are formed.
What is formed by heat and pressure?
300
a mineral
What is an inorganic substance found in earth.
300
plate boundary types (3)
What are divergent (divide), convergent (collide), and transform (slide).
400
Something that requires evidence.
What is a scientific law?
400
a map scale
What is something that tells the relationship between the distance on a map and distance on Earth's surface?
400
the difference between lava and magma (using both location and scientific term, as well as the type of rock it is).
What is igneous, intrusive (inside earth), extrusive (outside earth)?
400
minerals breaking due to weak bonds vs rough edges.
What is fracture vs cleavage?
400
plate boundaries vs faults
What are where plates collide vs where rocks collide?
500
If this occurs, you must modify your hypothesis.
What is what happens when your results do not match your hypothesis?
500
three map essentials
What is a map scale, legend, compass
500
the path of a crayon from shavings to shavings as per rock during rock cycle. MUST include all three types of rocks.
What is shavings (sediment), layered together (sedimentary rock), heat and pressure (metamorphic), melted (magma), crushed up (sediment
500
why beyonce's ring is so valuable
What is because all diamonds are one of kind due to the atomic particle formation.
500
evidence of continental drift
What is fossil clues, animals, shapes of countries, etc.