Scientific Process
A _____________________ is a statement about explaining a phenomenon that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
A push or a pull on an object.
What is a force
The study of everything in the universe beyond Earth's atmosphere is called ________________________.
What is astronomy?
Outer layer of Earth's geosphere.
What is the crust?
___________________________ is the conditions of temperature, precipitation, and air pressure at one specific time.
What is weather?
Information observed or resulting from an investigation.
What is data?
Which one of Newton's 3 Laws of Motion is described by the word "inertia"?
What is Newton's First Law of Motion?
Galaxies are moving ___________________ from Earth.
What is away?
Layer of the Earth between the lower mantle and the crust.
What is the asthenosphere?
Average kinetic energy (ranges from high to low)
What is temperature?
The variable in an experiment that is measured.
What is the dependent variable?
__________________________ is the only difference between speed and velocity.
What is direction?
Theory that all life in the universe started as a single point.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
Supercontinent before continental drift
What is pangea?
Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Accumulation
What is the Water Cycle?
Data that describes or is a category
What is qualitative data?
A change in speed or direction.
What is acceleration?
A very new star
What is a protostar?
Alfred Wegener's Theory about land pieces moving apart.
What is the Theory of Continental Drift?
The driving force for cycles in the atmosphere.
What is convection currents?
What is a negative relationship?
What does "m" represent in the following math formula for acceleration?
f = m x aWhat is mass?
Different stages of a star from its beginning to its end.
What is the life Cycle of a Star?
Plate boundary that creates a subduction zone.
Convergent? Divergent? Transform?
What is a convergent plate boundary?
The Greenhouse Effect ___________________ gases in Earth's atmosphere, causing temperature to rise.
What is traps?