Intro to Science
Matter
What is the middle of the earth's three main layers?
Mantle
What is the most valuable precious metal?
Platinum
What is the material carried by a stream?
Load
What value represents the brightness of a star as viewed from Earth?
Apparent Magnitude
Weight
What is the point underground where an earthquake begins?
What term describes the way light is reflected from the surface of a mineral?
Luster
What feature consists of a relatively large stream and any smaller streams that flow into it?
What evolutionary idea claims that the solar system formed from a cloud of gas and dust?
Nebular Hypothesis
How many independent variables should a scientific experiment have?
One
What type of fold occurs when rocks buckle up to form an arch-like structure?
Anticline
What is the most reflective metal?
Silver
What is a narrow, sandy island formed by a large bar off the coast of the mainland?
Barrier Island
What planet travels most rapidly through its orbit?
Mercury
What kind of reasoning goes from specific evidence to a more general conclusion?
What is the area between the upper mantle and the lower mantle?
Transition Zone
What group of minerals contain fluorine, chlorine, bromine, or iodine?
Halides
What is the stripping away of a thin area of topsoil from the surface of the land?
Sheet Erosion
What is the first object to be classified as an asteroid?
Ceres
What is the general term for a substance containing two or more elements bonded together?
Compound
What is the plastic rock on which the tectonic plates float?
Asthenosphere
What is the idea that undisturbed sedimentary strata lie in the order they were laid down?
Law of Superposition
What is the name of a triangular sediment deposit formed on a plain by a temporary mountain stream?
alluvial fan
Which three stars are part of the Summer Triangle?