7th grade vocabulary terms carmen n.
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| 1) Constant: | Variable that does not change in an experiment
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| 2) Continental drift: | Wegener's hypothesis that all continents were once connected in a single large landmass that broke apart about 200 million years ago and drifted slowly to their current positions.
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| 3) Earth science: | Study of earth and space including rocks, fossils, climate, volcanoes, land use, ocean water earthquakes, and objects in space/
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| 4) Asthenosphere: | Plasticlike layer of earth on which the lithospheric plates float and move around.
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| 5) Hypothesis: | An educated idea
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| 6) Science: | A process of observing, studying, and thinking about things in your world to gain knowledge.
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| 7) Equator: | An imaginary line around the earth halfway between the north and south poles.
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| 8) Latitude: | Lines running parallel to the equator.
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| 9) Longitude: | Distances in degrees east or west of the prime meridian.
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| 10) Scientific methods: | Problem-solving procedures used in experiments.
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| 11) Independant variables: | The variable that you change.
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| 12) Theory: | A explanation backed by results from many tests or experiments.
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| 13) Scientific law: | A rule that describes behavior of something in nature.
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| 14) Bias: | A personal opinion.
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| 15) Ethics: | Moral values about what is good or bad.
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| 16) Fault: | Fracture that ocurs when rocks break and that the results in relative movement of opposing sides can form as a result of compression, being pulled apart, or shear.
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