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Science practice
Science practice for midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Science | The investigation and exploration of natural vents and of the new information that results |
| Observation | The act of using one or more of your senses to gather information and take notes of what occurs |
| Inference | A logical explanation of an observation that is drawn from prior knowledge or experience |
| Hypothesis | Possible! For an observation that can be tested by scientific investigation |
| Prediction | A statement of it will happen next in a sequence of events |
| Technology | The practical use of scientific knowledge, especially for industrial or commercial use |
| Scientific theory | An explanation of observation or event that is based on knowledge gain from many observations and investigations |
| Scientific law | A rule that describe a pattern in nature |
| Critical thinking | Comparing what you already know with information, you are given in order to decide whether you agree with it |
| Description | A spoken or written summary of Ogbugh |
| Explanation | An interpretation of observation |
| International system of units | The international acceptance system of measure |
| Significant digit | The number of digits in a measurement that are known with a certain degree of reliability |
| Variable | Only factor that can have more than one value |
| Independent variable | The factor that is changed by the investigator to observe how it affects a dependent variable |
| Dependent variable | The factor a scientist, observes or measures during an experiment |
| Biosphere | The parts of the earth and the surrounding atmosphere where there is life |
| Atmosphere | A thin layer of gases surrounding earth |
| Hydrosphere | The system containing all earths water |
| Cryosphere | The frozen portion of water on earth surface |
| Groundwater | Water that is stored and cracks and pours beneath earth surface |
| Geosphere | The solid parts of earth |
| Mineral | A naturally occurring in organic solid that has a crystal structure and a define chemical composition |
| Rock | A naturally occurring solid, composed of minerals, such as organic matter |
| Water cycle | The series of natural processed by which water continually moves through throughout the hydrosphere |
| Evaporation | The process of liquid changing to a gas at a source surface of the liquid |
| Transpiration | The process by which plants release water vapor through their leaves |
| Condensation | The process by which a gas changes to a liquid |
| Precipitation | Water and liquid form that falls from the |
| Weather | The the atmospheric condition along with short-term changes of a certain place at certain time |
| Climate | The long-term average weather condition that occurs in a particular region |
| Rock cycle | The series of process that changes one type of rock into another type of rock |
| Uplift | The process that moves large bodies of earth materials to higher elevation |
| Weathering | The mechanical and chemical process that changes earth surface overtime |
| Mechanical weathering | Physical process that naturally breaks rocks into smaller pieces |
| Chemical weathering | The process that changes the composition of rock and minerals due to exposure to the environment |
| Oxidation | The process that combines the elements oxygen with other elements or molecules |
| Soil | A mixture of weathered rocks, rock, fragments decade, organic matter, water, and air |
| Organic matter | Remains of something that was once alive |
| Pore | Small holes and space and soil |
| Decomposition | The breaking down of dead organisms and organ |
| Parent material | The starting material of soil consist of rock or sediments that is subject to weather |
| Topography | The shape and steepness of the landscape |
| Biota | All of the organisms that live in a region |
| Horizon | Layer of soil formed from the movement of the product or weathering |
| Erosion | The movement of weathered material materials, or sediments from one location to another |
| Deposition | The Laying down or settling of eroded materials |
| Meander | A boroad c-shaped curve in a stream |
| Longshore current | A current that flows parallel to the shoreline |
| Delta | A large deposit of sediment that form where a stream enter a large body of water |
| Abrasion | The grinding away of rock or other surface as particles carried by wind, water or ice scrape against them |
| Dune | A pile of windblown sand |
| Loess | A crumbly windblown deposit of silt and clay |
| Mass wasting | The downhill movement of a large mass of rock or soil due to gravity |
| Landslide | Wrap it down downhill movement of soil, loess, rock and boulders |
| Talus | A pile of angular rocks, and sediments from a rock fall |
| Water vapor | Water in its gas for |
| Troposphere | The atmospheric layer closest to earth surface |
| Stratosphere | The atmospheric layer directly above the troposphere |
| Ozone layer | The area of the stratosphere with a concentration of ozone |
| Ionosphere | A region within the mesosphere and thermosphere containing ion us |
| Radiation | The transfer of thermal energy by electromagnetic waves |
| Conduction | The transfer of thermal energy due to collision between particles |
| Convection | Circulation of particles within a material caused by differences in thermal and density; the transfer of thermal energy by movement of particles from one part of the material |
| Stability | Whether circulation air motion will be strong, stronger or weak |
| Temperature inversion | A temperature increased as altitude increase in the troposphere |
| Wind | The movement of air from areas of high-pressure to areas of low pressure |
| Trade winds | Steady winds that flow from east between 30° N latitude, and 30° S latitude |
| Westerlies | Study When's that flow from west to east between latitude 30° Nand 60° N and 30° S and 60° S |
| Polar easterlies | Call the winds that blow from the east to the west near the north Pole and south Pole |
| Jet stream | A narrow band of high wind located near the top of the troposphere |
| Seabreeze | It went up from the sea to the land due to local temperature and pressure differences |
| Land breeze | A wind that blows from the land to the sea due to local temperature and pressure differences |
| Air pollution | The car, contamination of air by harmful substances, including gases and smoke |
| Acid precipitation | Precipitation that has a lower pH than that of normal rainfall |
| Photochemical smog | Air pollution that forms from the interaction between chemical and the air and sunlight |
| Particulate matter | The mix of both split and liquid particles in the air |
| Glacier | A large mass of ice formed by snow accumulation on land that moves slowly across earth surface |
| Till | A mixture of various sizes of sediments that work together to carry out specific tasks |
| Moraine | A mound or ridge of unsorted sediments deposited by glaciers |
| Out wash | Layered sediments deposited by streams of Weather that forms melting glacier |
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