Scientific Method
The Atmosphere
Climates
Plate Tectonics
Volcanoes
100
Conclusion
What is the last step in the scientific method?
100
Stratosphere
What is the second layer in the atmosphere?
100
Polar climate
What is the climate at the north pole?
100
Pangaea
What is the origninal landmass?
100
lava
What is melted rock that comes out of a volcano?
200
hypothesis
What is an educated guess?
200
troposphere
What is the bottom layer of the atmosphere?
200
weather
What is the state of the atmosphere at a given time and place?
200
South America and Africa
What are two continents that were once joined together?
200
Magma
What is molten rock undergroung?
300
State the problem
What is the first step in the scientific method?
300
Ozone
What is the gas that protects us from UV radiation?
300
humidity
What is the amount of water vapor in the air?
300
San Andreas Fault
What is the plate boundary that runs through California?
300
Shield Volcano
What is the type of volcano with gentle sloping sides?
400
Data
What is the information learned by doing an experiment?
400
Nitrogen and oxygen
What are the two most abundant gasses in the atmosphere?
400
carbon dioxide
What is a greenhouse gas produced by the burning of fossil fuels?
400
convection currents
What is thought to move the plates on the Earth.
400
Composite Volcano
What is the steep sided volcano with violent eruptions?
500
Control
What is the part of an experiment that is not changed?
500
temperature
What is the characteristic that divides the atmosphere into layers?
500
differential heating
What is the cause of wind?
500
Alfred Wegener
What is the name of the person who proposed continental drift?
500
Kilauea Volcano
What is the name of the Hawaiian volcano that has been erupting since 1983?