Types of Maps
Going on a road trip? You'd better open this app to help you find your way, locate a gas station, or visit a giant ball of twine.
What is google maps?
Right to left
What is the first thing you do when you come into the room?
What is "read the board"
Why is it important that your scientific question isn't a "yes or no'?
Becaues then it's hard to design a science experiment around it.
A student does an experiment where they give three plants different amounts of water. One plant gets a lot of water, one gets a little water, and one gets no water. Which type of variable is this student noticing?
Independent variable
This type of map view is also known as "birds eye"
What is plan view?
This type of line shows a change in a landmass' elevation
Contour line
Dr. S.K. Eleton wants you to know about lab safety! When working with unknown chemicals, students should wear/use two different types of safety equipment. They are...
Gloves and goggles
What is step four in the scientific method
Meet with Ms. McCown to explain your M and P
A student does an experiment where they give three plants different amounts of water. At the end of their experiment, one of the plants is small, one is healthy and one is dead. Which type of variable is this student noticing?
Dependant variable
Boyscouts and hikers will use this type of map when they are going up and down mountains
What is a topography map
What do we call the invisible grid lines on a map that run from North to South?
Longitude
True or false?
After you list out your M and P, you are READY to grab materials off of the pick up station?
False. You shouldn't get materials until after your diagram.
A student has reached the end of their lab and restated their question in the form of a sentence. This sentence starts with "we were trying to see if...". This student has written this part of their CER.
Claim
A student does an experiment where they give three plants different amounts of water. Next to their experiment is a healthy plant that they use to compare their plants to. What is this student noticing?
The control
This type of projection is useful for travelers because the top and bottom of the map is very exaggerated!
Mercator Projection
The enlarging or shrinking of an object in a way that keeps the object's proportions is also known as this.
What is scale?
Why do we research before we write our hypothesis
Because our hypothesis is our educated guess and we need to educate ourselves
What are the three things a successful diagram needs in order to get full points
Titled
Labeled
Takes up half the page
This type of map view is straight on - NOT birds eye...
Profile view
This type of map projection is the "standard" one that we see on screens, or in science notebooks.
What is Robinson?
Topography lines that are further apart, with a lot of space between them, indicate that the slope of the landform is this.
What is gentle/a hill/not steep.
Dr. S. K. Eleton wants you to be safe in the lab! If you get something in your eye, where should you go?
The eye wash station
Name all of the scientific method steps in order
Question
Research
Hypothesis
Summerize
M and P
Diagram
Data
CER
"If the Sun were the size of a basketball, Earth would be the size of a pen ink dot". What a great example of...
Scale