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More Stuff You Should Know
100
O° latitude.
What is the equator?
100
The variable that you, as the experimenter, control.
What is the independent variable?
100
The tectonic plate that we live on.
What is the North American Plate?
100
Volcanoes with the most gentle slope.
What are shield volcanoes?
100
The point on Earth's surface, directly above where an earthquake begins.
What is epicenter?
200
The science of mapmaking.
What is cartography?
200
Dirty labware, math errors, and using the wrong materials could all be a source of this.
What are sources of error?
200
Theory that was rejected in favor of Plate Tectonics.
What is Continental Drift?
200
The thickness of a liquid.
What is viscosity?
200
This type of plate boundary:
What is a convergent plate boundary?
300
Lines that show change in elevation on a topographic map.
What are contour lines?
300
A scientific statement that is accepted as true, but without (much) explanation.
What is a scientific law?
300
The process that causes plates to move.
What is convection?
300
Adding silica to magma _______ its viscosity.
What is increases?
300
A bowl-shaped depression at the top of a volcano, around the vent.
What is a crater?
400
Maps that are distorted at the north and south poles
What are Mercator maps?
400
The person that threw these darts was ______. (this may be 1 or 2 vocabulary words).
What is accurate and precise?
400
Type of plate boundary seen at the San Andreas Fault in California.
What is a transform fault boundary?
400
The most dangerous part of a volcanic eruption? (the part that kills the most people)
What is pyroclastic flow?
400
Oceanic plates subduct below continental plates because of this.
What is density?
500
Contour lines, on a topographic map, that are very close together indicate this.
What is a steep change in elevation? (like a mountain or a hill)
500
If 5 students study for the exam, and 5 students don't, and we compare their test results; their test results would be the _____ variable.
What is the dependent variable?
500
Patterns of magnetic reversal of the poles were used to show ______ occurring at plate boundaries.
What is seafloor spreading?
500
Type of plate boundary that normally has volcanoes present.
What is a convergent plate boundary?
500
This is seen at number 5.
What is a sill?