Factors that can affect the outcome of an experiment
What is a variable?
100
Extrememly dangerous storms, with lightning, that last a short time, but can cause a lot of damage
What is a tornado?
100
A Latin word for fire
What is "ignis?"
100
Particles move the fastest in this phase of matter
What is a gas?
100
Heat transfer from the sun
What is radiation?
200
An attempt to explain an observation.
What is an inference?
200
Saffir-Simpson, Richter, Fujita, and Mercali
What are scales to measure earthquakes and tornadoes?
200
Contains fossils and/or remains of living animals and plants.
What is a sedimentary rock?
200
Rust forming on a bicycle after the rain is an example of this because a NEW SUBSTANCE is formed
What is a chemical change?
200
A conservative boundary where material is not created or destroyed.
What is a strike-slip boundary?
300
color, texture, taste, shape and odor
What are eaxamples of qualitative observations?
300
Begins and grows over warm waters
What is a hurricane?
300
Thinnest and coolest layer of the Earth
What is the crust?
300
A pahse change from a liquid to a gas
What is condensation?
300
Rocks change into new rock due to extreme heat and pressure
What is a metamorphic rock?
400
Investigative questions
What are questions that can be answered by performing an experiment?
400
Tornado Alley
What is the area of the United States we call the Great Plains?
400
Found fossils of species on several continents like the mesosaurus (small, freshwater lizard). Found mountain chains on several continents. Found evidence of erosion and glacial deposits
Who is Alfred Wegener?
400
Particles that move freely around each other
What is a liquid?
400
Plate boundaries
What is where earthquakes and volcanoes occur?
500
Quantity, uses numbers and measurement
What are quantitative observations?
500
Measures the size of an earthquake.
What is a seismograph?
500
Forms when plates come together. Destructive boundary
What is a convergent boundary?
500
No new substance is created. An example is a phase change of an ice cube melting into a puddle
What is a physical change?
500
Less gas particles are available as a person moves away from the surface of the Earth because of this