Scientific Method
The variable that a researcher intentionally changes in an experiment to observe its effect on another variable
What is the manipulative variable?
Two plates grind past each other at this boundary
What is a transform boundary?
When you sweat, ___ is leaving your body
As you go deeper in the ocean ___increases and ____decreases
What is salinity and temperature?
The very top of a wave
What is the crest?
An 'educated guess' based on observations and prior knowledge, that can be tested for
What is a hypothesis?
what forms at transform boundaries
Earthquakes only
The property of water that causes water to pool up into a water droplet on your windshield?
What is cohesion?
What is salinity?
The amount of salt dissolved in water
The very bottom of a wave
What is the trough?
The variables in an experiment that are unchanged, or kept constant throughout the experiment
What is the controlled variables?
What forms at divergent boundaries?
Rift valley, mid-ocean ridge, underwater volcanoes, earthquakes
When ice freezes over a lake, it acts like ____ protecting the marine organisms
What is insulation?
When the amount of H= ions in the water starts to increase, lowering the overall pH of the oceans
What is Ocean Acidification?
The type of tide that occurs when the tide is coming in
What is a flooding tide?
Why should you repeat an experiement?
To ensure similar results, similar results are reliable
What fuels continental drift?
Convection currents
Water molecules are ____ molecules because the oxygen end is slightly negative and the hydrogen end is slightly positive
What is polar?
What are ways we can decrease the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere/ways we can decrease our ecological footprint?
Planting trees, using public transportation or walking/biking, using electric vehicles, eating less meat, using renewable resources like solar and wind power(etc...)
When the overall tidal bulge is really small, resulting in a minimal difference between high and low tides. occurs during first quarter and last quarter moons
What is neap tide?
What are some examples of unreliable research resources? (2 minimum for correct answer)
Websites such as personal blogs, forums, social media posts, advertising or biased websites
When a fluid (like liquid or gas) is heated unevenly, causing the warmer, less dense parts to rise while the cooler, denser parts sink, creating a continuous circulation pattern that transfers heat from one area to another
How does a convection current work?
The property of water is responsible for coastal areas having a mild climate?
What is high specific heat?
Some marine organisms use this to make their hard skeleton or shell, which is becoming less abundant in an acidic ocean
What is calcium carbonate?
The type of tide that occurs when there is a full or new moon, and the tidal bulge is higher than normal resulting in higher high tides and lower low tides
What are spring tides?