Science Fair
Used eggs for their project?
Any of these: Marcella Grape / Peyton Nguyen - Which Type of Purple Vegetable Dye Shows Up Brighter on Eggs?
Nicholas Guzik - Eggciting Osmosis
Selena Tovar - Super Stain Champion
Grace Todd / Isabella Tran - Toothpaste Dilemma
Which layer of the earth do we live on?
crust OR lithosphere
What is the type of boundary where plates are moving towards each other?
convergent boundary
The soft, plastic-like layer of the mantle that the lithosphere floats on
Asthenosphere
The wise and prudent management of what’s entrusted to us
Stewardship
First place winner?
Ben Peichel - Compost Contest
What makes up the lithosphere?
The crust and the upper, rigid part of the mantle.
Type of plate boundary where the plates are moving away from each other
Divergent boundary
underwater mountain range formed by tectonic plates moving apart
Mid-ocean ridge
An explanation that seeks to account for all related facts in a particular field of study
Theory
Tested how far things flew?
Joe Posteuca - Rubber Band Warfare
Solomon Bydlon - The Flight Fight
Arianna Batista and Sadie Westerdahl - Does the Amount of Air in a Volleyball Matter?
The name of a super continent which included all of the landmasses on earth
Pangaea
Which type of crust is older and thicker, continental crust or oceanic crust?
Continental crust
the scientific theory that the Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large, slowly moving plates
Plate tectonics
The ability to maintain creation’s productivity over time
Sustainability
Who grew plants?
Becket Paulson - Liquids vs. Plants
Gigi Hubler and Heaven Yacob - Red, Blue, and White - Which Light is Right?
Benedict Peichel - The Compost Contest
The scientist who first proposed the theory of continental drift
Alfred Wegner
What is a landform that might form when two tectonic plates are smashing into each other?
mountain, volcano, trench, volcanic arc of islands
one of the sections of the earth's lithosphere, (It is constantly moving in relation to the other sections)
Tectonic plate
The variable that is changed by the researcher
independent variable
Who tested food (but not drinks)?
Zaylee Christianson and Emma Mack - What Type of Sugar Makes Cupcakes Grow Taller?
Lucas Dahlberg - Magnetic Cereal
Greg Ngwafanwi - Germ and Food Wars
What are Wegener's 4 pieces of evidence that the continents that are currently separated had once been joined? (you need ALL 4 for these points!)
Fossils, puzzle-like fit of the continents, similar rock/mountains, glacial evidence
What is the Ring of Fire?
A long chain of volcanoes that surround the Pacific Ocean (and also a song by Johnny Cash) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WyLhwYFgmk
when one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate
Subduction
Something provided by the earth that human beings can use
natural resource