Scientific Design
The manipulated or tested variable in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
A warm, moist air mass.
What is a maritime tropical air mass?
Earth's thickest layer.
What is the mantle?
Objects in motion will stay in motion and objects at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
What is Newton's 1st Law?
Movement on an object's axis, spinning
What is rotation?
The observed variable - the data of the experiment!
What is the dependent variable?
A person that studies weather.
What is a meteorologist?
Rocks formed when heat and pressure inside Earth change one kind of rock into another kind
What are metamorphic rocks?
The formula to describe the relationship between mass, force, and acceleration.
What is F=m*a? OR a = F/m
The galaxy that we live in.
What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
A student tested three different types of wheels on a mousetrap car to find out which type would make the car go the fastest. The other parts of the car had to stay the same because they are -
What are constant variables?
Where most volcanoes and mountains are formed and most earthquakes occur.
What are tectonic plate boundaries?
The unit used to measure energy.
What are Joules?
That reason we have seasons.
What is Earth's revolution and tilt?
The correct format to write a hypothesis.
What is, "if, then, because" format?
Global winds that move from towards the equator from east to west
What are trade winds?
Process in which the edge of one plate sinks below the edge of another plate
What is subduction?
Where you have the most potential energy on a roller coaster.
What is the TOP of the first (or highest) hill?
The phase of the moon that we see from Earth when the Earth is between the moon and the sun.
What is a full moon?
The standard used to compare your experimental results.
What is control variable?
From high to low pressure
The supercontinent that existed about 200 million years ago.
What is Pangea?
The tenancy of an object to resist a change in its motion.
What is inertia?
Martin created a scale model of each planet in our solar system using a scale of 1 cm:12,750 km. If he drew the diameter of Jupiter 11 cm, what is the actual diameter (in km) of the planet?
What is 140,250 km?