Measurement & Density
The amount of matter in an object, measured in grams with a balance.
Mass
The variable that responds to the change, plotted on the y-axis.
The dependent variable
Earth's thinnest, outermost layer.
The crust
The point on Earth's surface directly above where an earthquake starts.
The epicenter
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The amount of space an object takes up.
Volume
Predicting a value beyond the range of your measured data.
Extrapolation
Earth's thickest layer, made of hot rock that flows very slowly.
The mantle
The faster seismic wave, which arrives first and travels through solids and liquids.
P-waves
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To find density, you divide this by volume.
Mass
As one variable increases, the other increases too. This is the name for that relationship.
A direct relationship
Earth's inner and outer core are made mostly of these two metals.
Iron and nickel
To locate an epicenter, you need data from at least this many seismic stations.
Three
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Oppenheimer
A block has a density of 2.5 g/cm³ and a volume of 4.0 cm³. This is its mass.
10 g
The three parts of a CER response.
Claim, evidence, reasoning
The soft, partly melted layer of the upper mantle that the plates slide over.
The asthenosphere
The difference in arrival times between these two waves tells you how far away an earthquake is.
P-waves and S-waves
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Up
An object with a density of 0.8 g/cm³ is placed in water. This is what it does.
It floats
In percent deviation, you compare your measured value to this value.
The accepted value
As you go deeper into Earth, temperature increases and so does this.
Pressure
S-waves can't pass through the outer core, which creates this area on the far side of Earth where no S-waves are recorded.
The S-wave shadow zone
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Moana