Intro to Earth Science
Three ways to "Think Like a Scientist."
What is observe the natural world more closely, ask good questions about your observations, and find the answer through research or experimentation?
The American program to land people on the moon was called
What is the Apollo Program?
The color of a mineral's powder is called this.
What is streak?
Rocks are generally made up of mixtures of these.
What are minerals?
The fastest type of seismic wave.
What are P waves?
Three ways scientists study the natural world.
What is observe, infer, and predict?
The temperature on the moon's surface varies greatly because the moon has no this.
What is an atmosphere?
A narrow channel or slab of a mineral that is different from the surrounding rock is called this.
What is a vein?
Which of the following is not part of the rock cycle? Melting, erosion, smelting, and volcanic activity.
What is smelting?
This type of fault occurs when the hanging wall is above the fault line.
What is a reverse fault?
Observations that deal with numbered amounts.
What are quantitative observations?
This event began the space race between the USSR and the USA.
What is the USSR launched the Sputnik I into space?
The amount of mass in a given volume is called this.
What is density?
The type of rock that is formed by layers of organic material such as fossils.
What is sedimentary rock?
The area directly above the earthquake on the surface of the Earth.
What is the epicenter?
The variable in an experiment that is expected to change as a result of the manipulated, or independent variable.
What is the dependent variable?
Where water might be found on the moon.
What are near the poles?
A hard, colorful mineral that has a brilliant or glassy luster is called this.
What is a gemstone?
The two types of grain sizes.
What are fine and coarse grains?
Rock that bends or folds and makes the shape of an A is called this.
What is anticline?
A possible explanation for a set of observations or answer to a scientific question is called this.
What is a hypothesis?
Who was Alan Shepard?
This factor affects the size of mineral crystals formed in magma.
What is the rate of cooling?
What is foliated or banded?
A person who studies earthquakes is called this.
What is a seismologist?