Whats the definition of criteria?
Requirements that a design must meet
What is nuclear waste
Leftover stuff from nuke energy
What are sediments
Parts of rock and dead organism's
What's the square root of 64?
8
Who's the best teacher?
All of the 6th grade teachers
Whats the definition of currents
Regular movements of large amounts of ocean water
What are the time periods in Geological Time
Thousands, millions, and billions of years
What is a trade off
giving up something for something better.
what do plants do?
They feed on carbon dioxide and they release oxygen into the atmosphere so we can breathe
What's the definition of evaluation?
Evaluation is deciding if you can do it better
Where do winds tend to blow to?
They tend to blow from higher-pressure to lower-pressure areas
What are components
Substances, and materials that make up a system
What does GPS stand for
Global positioning system
What unit did we do first in social studies
Ancient civilization in Mesopotamia
What does a paleontologist study
a scientist who uses fossils to understand when events occured
What is population density
The number of people living in that specific location
What was our activity 7 lab
Cutting Canyons and Building Deltas
What do climographs show
They show average temperature and climate for a certain area
What's a Scientific Model?
A Scientific model is a representation that can be used to explain & predict what happens in the natural world
What was the name of our Visual Aid 7.1?
Pacific Ocean Projection or Pacific Ocean Projection of Temperature
Name the definitions of mean median mode and range in order
Mean: average
Median: the middle value of the smallest to largest number
Mode: The number that appears most often
Range: The difference between the smallest and largest numbers
Name the Scientific Method IN ORDER!
1. Observation 2. Research
3. Hypothesis 4. Test/experiment
5. Analyze Data 6. Report
Name the Coriolis Effect
The Coriolis Effect is is earth's counterclockwise rotation causes north winds to go right and south winds to go left (It's stronger at higher altitudes)
What are boundaries?
Boundaries are the extent of the system, separating components & processes that are part of the system from those that are not
What is remote sensing
refers to any technology that provides information about an object