STEM Design Loop
Sea Floor Spreading
Energy
Igneous Rocks
Relative Dating Principals
100
Identifying a need
What is the first step to the engineering design loop?
100
Ocean-Ocean Plate boundary, mid ocean ridge
Where is new ocean crust formed?
100
Energy cannot be created or destroyed
What is the law of conservation of energy?
100
Form in Earth's Interior
What are intrusive rocks
100
Rocks at the bottom of an undisturbed pile are older than those at the top
What is the law of superposition?
200
Researching the problem
What is the second step to the engineering design loop?
200
Abyssal plain
What is the deepest constant part of the ocean floor
200
Matter cannot be created or destroyed
What is the law of conservation of matter?
200
Form at the exterior of Earth
What are extrusive igneous rocks?
200
Sedimentary rock layers are horizontal if undisturbed
What is the law of original horizontality?
300
Developing solutions, selecting most promising solutions, constructing prototype
What are the 3rd, 4th, and 5th steps to the engineering design loop?
300
Continents moving through ocean
What is Wegener's original theory of how continents moved away from the original Pangea?
300
Energy that is stored, not used yet
What is Potential Energy
300
Igneous rocks that have cooled in the interior of Earth very slowly, forming large crystals
What are coarse igneous rocks?
300
Groups of fossils of plants and animals appear in the geological record in a definite and determined order
What is the law of faunal succession?
400
Testing a design
What is the 6th step to the engineering design loop?
400
Deep Sea Trench
Where is sea floor destroyed?
400
Energy in motion or movement
What is Kinetic Energy?
400
Igneous rocks that form on Earth's exterior more quickly
What are fine igneous rocks?
400
Geological features such as faults and intrusions are younger than the rocks that they cover/cut through.
What is the law of crosscutting relationships?
500
Communicating design, redesigning
What are the last two steps to the engineering design loop?
500
Continental shelf
What is the gentle incline from shore to deep sea?
500
Will there be more potential energy at the bottom or top of a hill?
Top
500
A very coarse grained, light colored rock
What is Granite?
500
Rock bodies with inclusions of preexisting rock is younger than the rock the inclusions are from.
What is the principle of inclusion?