Do you know your Vocab?
Classroom Trivia
Scientific Argumentation
Models
Key Concepts
100

Having the conditions necessary to support life.

What is habitable?

100

The kind of pet Ms. Hlinka has and the pet's name.

What is Cat & Luna?

100

The first step in scientific argumentation.

What is question?

100

The two models we used in class to study our two claims for the unit.

What is the flowing water model and the flowing lava model?

100

Scientists can use _______to test their ideas and get evidence about processes in the natural world that are difficult to observe.

What are models?

200

A set of interacting parts forming a complex whole.

What is system? 

200

Our call-back for this class.

What is hocus pocus, who lives in a pineapple, the snack the smiles back, chicken nugget, mac n cheese?

200

A scientific argument begins with a question, has a claim that proposes an answer to the question, and has ________ that supports the claim.

What is evidence?

200

The model we used in class that showed the channel was curvy and branching out. 

What is the flowing water model?

200

__________ can provide evidence about the past because they remain after the geologic processes that formed them stop happening.

What are landforms?

300

An object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see.

What is model?

300

The green and purple dinosaur's name.

What is jolly rancher?

300

A scientific argument clearly explains how the evidence supports the _______.

What is a claim?

300

In our flowing water model, the water flowing down the stream table represents the _______(landform). The slope created by the adjustable legs represents the steepness of the _________(landform). 

What are river and hill?

300

These _________ are made up of interacting spheres that can include the geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere.

What are systems?

400

A proposed answer to a question about the natural world.

What is a claim?

400

How battle of the periods works.

What is the highest class average in each class wins a party?

400

The the three parts to a scientific argument.

What are claim, evidence, and reasoning?

400

In a flowing water model, in order to test the idea that very steep hills lead to narrow, deep rivers, the student should do what to do the model. 

What is adjust the height of the table?

400

When landforms on different _______ ________ look similar, it is evident they may have been formed by the same geologic process.

What are rocky planets?

500

The process of making clear how your evidence supports your claim.

What is reasoning?
500

Ms. Hlinka climbed the tallest mountain in the continental U.S. this summer.

What is Mt. Whitney?

500

The most convincing argument and why.

1:  drinking cola is bad for your health.  Cola contains 4-mel, which is a certain caramel coloring ingredient that has caused cancer in lab rats.

2:  drinking cola is bad for your health.  Cola contains 4-mel. Avoid drinking cola in order to stay healthy.

What is argument 1 because it has reasoning behind its evidence?

500

The model that we saw in class that showed that the channel remained after water stopped flowing through it.

What is the flowing water model?
500

________ represent the natural processes being investigated in important ways, but they are not exactly the same.

What are models?