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EarthScienceQ2EXAM
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What must a scientist do to ensure the results from the experiment are accurate and valid? | Repeated trials |
| What is an inference? | Reading between the lines |
| What is an observation? | Using your senses to state what happened |
| What is a prediction? | An educated guess on the future |
| What should you do FIRST if there is an accident in the science lab? | Notify the teacher |
| Independent Variable | Thing changed/manipulated |
| Dependent Variable | The thing responding, numbers. |
| Control group | The group without the IV |
| Experimental group | The group with the IV |
| Contant variables | The things the same in both groups |
| Pie graph | PERCENTS, parts of a whole |
| Line Graph | Show progress |
| Bar Graph | Comparison, display data |
| Scatter Plot | Show trends with large quantities of results |
| Density | Amount of matter in a given space |
| Mass | Amount of matter in an object |
| Volume | Amount of space something takes up |
| What is the order of conversion? | KHDUDCM |
| What is conduction? | Heat transfer through touching |
| What is convection? | Heat transfer through changing density |
| What is radiation? | Heat transfer NO TOUCHING |
| Crust is ____ | Solid |
| Mantle is ____ | Solid |
| Outer Core is ______ | Liquid |
| Inner Core is _____ | Solid |
| Thickest layer - | Mantle |
| Thinnest layer - | Crust |
| _____ and ______ increase as we move from the outside layers to the inside layers of the Earth | Heat, Pressure |
| Convection occurs in which layers of the Earth? | Asthenosphere (Mantle) outer core |
| Pangea | Supercontinent |
| Continental Drit | Theory that plates have drifted from Pangea |
| Plate Tectonics | Sections of Earth's crust float on the Lithosphere |
| What are the 3 pieces of evidence that Wegner uses for Continental Drift | Climate, Fossils, Geographic Features |
| Subduction | When a piece of crust sinks o/c o/c convergent boundary |
| Hot spot | When magma is under the crust (Hawaii) |
| Fault | A break in Earth's crust |
| Sea Floor Spreading | The sea floor spreads at a MOR divergent boundary |
| MOR | Mid-Ocean Ridge; Divergent o/o |
| Original Horizontality | All rock layers form horizontally |
| Unconformity | A gap in the geological record due to erosion |
| Absolute Age | A # of years |
| Relative Age | Age of a rock compared to others |
| How do fossils form? | 1. Organism dies 2. Buried by sediment 3. Sediment turns into rock |
| The fossil record shows 3 things - | How organisms have evolved What the Earth was like How environments have changed |
| Rift Vallley | c/c divergent |
| San Andreas Fault | Transforming Boundary |
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