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PMEI Internship
Vocab Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| to examine in detail for a purpose | analyze |
| a claim supported by evidence | argument |
| moving toward the same place | convergent |
| standards by which something is judged | criteria |
| moving apart in different directions | divergent |
| a set of related documents about a particular topic | dossier |
| a sudden shaking of earth's surface | earthquake |
| a person who uses math and science to design things | engineer |
| to move somewhere safe | evacuate |
| information about the natural world that is used to support or go against a claim | evidence |
| a warning that is generated for a specific area, even though no emergency or disaster occurs in that area | false alarm |
| a natural disaster on Earth, such as an earthquake, tornado, or flood | geohazard |
| beginners at a workplace who do work that is closely supervised because they are learning on the job | intern |
| the person who supervises interns during a project | internship coordinator |
| repeating a process in a way that considers the results of a previous design | iterative testing |
| a feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune | landform |
| the size or strength of something | magnitude |
| an underwater mountain range formed when two planes move apart | mid-ocean ridge |
| an object, diagram, or computer program that helps us to understand something by making it simpler or easier to see | model |
| most successful, considering the situation | optimal |
| something we observe to be similar over and over again | pattern |
| one of the very large sections of hard solid rock that make up Earth's outer layer | plate |
| the place where two plates meet | plate boundary |
| a formal design that is supported by evidence, and submitted for discussion and review | proposal |
| the process of sharing scientific arguments, explanations, ideas or data with an audience | scientific communication |
| a device that detects information in its environment and responds | sensor |
| the process by which rock material moves under Earth's outer layer and into the mantle due to plate motion | subduction |
| when you have to give up one thing in return for another | trade-off |
| a plate boundary where two plates move sideways past each other | transform boundary |
| a long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together | trench |
| a large ocean wave caused by a sudden shift in the seafloor | tsunami |
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