Scientific Method
⭐ DAILY DOUBLE: The second step of the scientific method.
What is doing research?
The solid outer layer of Earth called.
What is the crust?
The continuous movement of water between Earth and the atmosphere called.
What is Water cycle? or What is hydrologic cycle?
Instrument that measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
Rotating storm that forms over warm ocean water.
What is a hurricane?
An educated guess about what will happen in an experiment called.
What is a Hypothesis?
The type of rock that forms when magma or lava cools.
What is igneous rock.
The process that changes liquid water into water vapor.
What is Evaporation?
Instrument that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
Violently rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm to the ground.
The variable that is purposely changed in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
The process that breaks rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
The regular rise and fall of ocean water.
What are tides?
Layer of the atmosphere that contains most of Earth's weather.
What is troposphere?
The scale that is used to classify hurricanes from Category 1–5.
What is the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale?
The variable that is measured or observed during an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
The theory that explains the movement of Earth's plates.
What is plate tectonics?
The area where the ocean meets the land called.
What is the Coastal zone?
Type of cloud that is associated with thunderstorms and severe weather.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
The calm center of a hurricane.
What is the eye?
A group in an experiment that does not receive the variable being tested called.
What is the control group?
The type of boundary that occurs when two tectonic plates move away from each other.
What is divergent boundary?
The deepest part of the ocean floor.
What is the trench?
The three main climate zones.
What are tropical, temperate, and polar?
⭐ DAILY DOUBLE: Scale that is commonly used to rate tornadoes.
What is the Enhanced Fujita (EF) Scale?