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Scientific Inquiry
Our Resouces
Conservation
Environmental Change
Evidence of Change
100
This is what 2 people can agree on; fact.
What is an Observation?
100
Oil, minerals i.e. copper, natural gas are these types of resources.
What are Nonrenewable Resources?
100
When manufacturers design smaller lids on bottles or  smaller boxes for their products, they are doing this.
What is Reducing?
100
When water carries away sediment (dirt particles), this is called __________. 
What is Erosion?
100
Volcanic eruptions and the greenhouse effect can cause this effect in the atmosphere.
What is Pollution?
200
Conclusions of investigations usually lead to these.
What are more Questions?
200
Resources that can be regenerated within our lifetime are called_________.
What are Renewable Resources?
200
When we make a table out of a cardboard box, we are doing this.
What is Reusing?
200
When water deposits sediment from another area, this is an environmental change called __________.
What is Deposition?
200
Scientists drill into a glacier and pull this out to look for evidence of changes on the earth.


What is an Ice Core?
300
To "read between the lines" is to do this.
What is Infer or make an Inference?
300
Trees and livestock (cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens) are considered ____________ resources.
What are Renewable resources?
300
Name a natural resource that we use as a substitute in order to conserve energy. Name 3 and double your points!
What is wind/water/sun(solar)?
300
When water freezes in the cracks of rocks, breaking them apart, or when wind carves holes in rocks, this is an environmental change called ___________.
What is Weathering?
300
A botanist analyzes tree rings and observes that several tree rings in the middle are spaced far apart.  He can tell that in those years this environmental change occurred.


Double points if you can name an effect this would have had on animal and human lives.

What is a Drought?


What is people/animals might have to relocate for food, they might starve or die, food prices would increase dramatically.

400
An hypothesis is a scientific _________.
What is Prediction?
400
Higher gas prices, higher food prices occurs when resources are this.
What is limited/scarce/gone.
400
When plastic from plastic bottles is used to make  clothing, this conserving by ____________.
What is Recycling?
400
Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, fires, hurricanes are __________ changes that affect the earth.
What are Rapid?
400
Remnants of bones from fish or other animals (even plant structures) that lived long ago are called this.


Double points if you can name the scientist that studies evidence from the past.

What are fossils?

What is an archeologist?

500
List, in order,  the six steps of a Scientific Investigation.
What are:

1. Big Question  2. Research 3. Hypothesis

4.  Experiment/Collect Data 5. Analyze Data 

6. Draw  conclusions/share/ask more questions


500
Name 3 ways we can conserve our resources for 500 points.

Name 4 ways and earn 600 points.

What are: reduce, reuse, recycle, find substitutes
500
Name a way that we reuse the rubber from tires or glass bottles.
What is (for example) creating a running track or playground/splashpad material?


What is art or stained glass windows (for example)?

500
Name 2 changes of earth's environment that are slow processes.

Double the points if you can name 4!

What are Drought, Weathering, Greenhouse Effect, Melting Ice Caps?
500
Draw what a tree's rings would look like if a region experienced 4 years of normal rainfall, followed by 2 years dry weather, then 3 years of normal rainfall.
What is 4 close concentric circles, 2 wide concentric circles, then 3 close concentric circles :  circles decrease in diameter as they are added toward the center.