Scientific Method
What is Science?
Thermal Heat Transfer
Layers of the Earth
Vocabulary
100

The last step of the scientific method is _________.

What is communicate results.

100

Science is a way of learning more about the ________________________.

What is natural world.

100

Roasting marshmallows on an open fire.

What is radiation.

100

The lithosphere is broken into sections called _________

What is plates.

100

Factors that can be changed in an experiment.

What are variables.

200

The procedure to test a hypothesis is ___________.

What is experiment.

200

Science cannot answer questions about _______________.

What is art, music, religion, morality, personal preference, what is right, wrong, good, or bad.

200

Macaroni swirls around in a pot of boiling water.

What is convection.

200

The lithosphere is broken into sections called plates, which float on top of the _____________


What is the asthenosphere?

200

Variable that is not changed in an experiment is the ___________.

What is constant or controlled.

300

A reasonable or educated possible answer to a problem based on observations is _______________.

What is hypothesis.

300

True or False Scientific theories can become laws.

FALSE

300

In conduction, heat moves from areas that are ____________ to areas that are ___________.

What is hotter and colder.

300
Describe the lithosphere

What is thin, ridged and brittle. (least dense)

300

Variable that is changed in an experiment is the _________________.

What is independent variable.

400

You gather observation through your _________ about the natural world.

What is senses.

400

Name the three branches of Science.

What is Life Science, Earth Science, Physical Science.

400

Which type of heat transfer causes the tectonic plates to move?

What is convection?

400

Why is the inner core solid?

What is extreme pressure in the outer core?

400

Draw conclusions based on what you observe ___________.

What is infer/inference.

500

Data can be analyzed and organized into ________, __________, or _________.

What is charts, graphs, tables.

500

Explain the difference between Scientific Law and Scientific Theory.

What is Scientific laws are rules that describe a pattern in nature. Scientific Theory is an attempt to explain a pattern observed repeatedly in nature.

500

Radiation travels through ____________ waves. 

What is electromagnetic waves?
500

What is the difference between magma and lava?

Lava is magma on the Earth's surface. Magma is below the Earth's surface. 

500

Can a theory change over time? Give an example

Yes, theory of continental drift evolves into the theory of plate tectonics.