Scientific Method
An educated guess or prediction
What is hypothesis?
Change in position of an object.
What is motion?
The natural breaking down or wearing away of rocks and objects by things like wind, water, and temperature changes. It happens slowly over time.
What is weathering?
The remains of plants, animals, and bacteria that lived a very long time ago.
What is a fossil?
place where a living thing, like a plant or animal, lives and gets everything it needs to survive, like food, water, and shelter.
What is a habitat?
Drawing conclusions from the results of your experiments to determine if your hypothesis was correct.
A push or a pull that can make an object move, stop, or change direction.
What is force?
When wind, water, or ice drops the tiny pieces of rock or soil it has carried. This builds up new landforms, like sand dunes or riverbanks, over time.
What is deposition?
Fuels such as oil, coal, or natural gas that are formed in the Earth from plant, animal, and bacterial remains.
What are fossil fuels?
all the living things in an environment, like plants, animals, and even tiny bugs and bacteria.
What is biotic?
The first step in the scientific process
What is asking a question?
When two or more forces acting on an object are equal in strength but opposite in direction.
What is equal/balanced force?
A landform that is a deep, narrow valley created by erosion from ice and/or water.
What is a canyon?
Renewable energy that comes from plants, animals, and other natural materials. It includes things like wood, crops, food waste, and even manure.
What is biomass?
all the non-living things in an environment, like sunlight, water, air, rocks, and soil. These things are not alive, but they help living things survive!
What is abiotic?
The step in which we create something to test our hypothesis
What is experiment?
A force that resists (slows down or stops) the motion of two surfaces sliding against each other.
What is friction?
Movement of settlements due to wind, water, and ice.
What is erosion?
When compacted sediments bind together due to pressure, typically with clay or mud.
What is cementation?
a place where living things, like plants and animals, live and work together with non-living things, like air, water, and soil.
What is an ecosystem?
Reviewing experiment results and drawing conclusions
What is analysis?
When one force acting on an object is stronger than the opposing force. This makes the object start moving, stop moving, or change direction.
What is unequal/unbalanced force?
A landform that is created by when the sediment is deposited (through deposition) at the point where the river meets the ocean.
What is a delta?
Rocks that are formed from sediments, or pieces, of other rocks.
What is sedimentary rock?
an animal that hunts and eats other animals to survive.
What is a predator?