The Nature of Science
Deforestation can cause this effect on the Earth because there are no longer plants to anchor the soil.
What is erosion?
Meteorology is the study of this.
What is weather?
Mass divided by volume
What is density?
This can happen after a mild to severe blow to the head.
What is concussion?
A statement or mathematical equation that describes a pattern observed in the natural world.
What is a law?
This can occur with the movement of tectonic plates along fault lines.
What is an earthquake?
This is smaller than a galaxy but larger than a star.
What is a solar system?
This is the bending of waves as they pass through a different medium.
What is refraction?
The most common source of energy for brain cells in humans.
What is glucose?
The process that uses observations and investigation to gain knowledge about phenomena in nature is called
What is science?
This is the solid outer part of the Earth, and includes the crust.
What is the lithosphere?
This is the alignment of the Earth, Sun, and moon during a solar eclipse.
What is Earth - moon - Sun?
When a roller coaster reaches the top of a hill, it has its maximum of this type of energy.
What is potential?
A tick living on a dog.
What is an example of parasitism?
A way of displaying information or data visually.
What is a graph?
The hydrologic cycle describes the circulation of this on Earth.
What is water?
This is caused by the moon's gravitational pull.
What are tides?
One is a measure of the force of gravity, the other is a measure of matter.
What is weight and mass?
Thee passage of genetic instructions from one generation to another.
What is heredity?
Scientists use this to support explanations about how the world works.
What is evidence?
Unlike weather, which can change daily, this is the average pattern of atmospheric conditions such as temperature.
What is climate?
Orbiting around the Sun by planets is caused by these 2 things.
What are gravity and inertia?
Water boiling is an example of this kind of change.
What is a physical change?
Failure of a species to adapt to a changing environment may lead to this.
What is extinction?