Science Comprehension Exam
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- Convection
- transfer of heat by movement of matter by convection
- asthenosphere
- top layer of mantle
- Evidence of Continental Drift
- rocks and fossils on different continents and climate changes
- Quantitative Observation
- Observation in which you use numbers
- divergent boundary
- two plates pull apart
- Several Times
- experiment must be run ______ to be accurate
- Stating the Problem
- first step in experimenting
- line graph
- show changed over time
- convection in the asthenosphere
- main driving force of plate tectonics
- normal fault
- pulls rocks apart
- where volcanoes form
- convergent and divergent boundaries and hot spots
- Constant Variable
- how things are kept the same except for what you're testing
- Qualitative Observation
- observation in which you use your senses
- Independent Variable
- what is being tested
- Variable
- factor that is being testing
- Tectonic Plate
- slab of asthenosphere and lithosphere
- Dependent Variable
- what is being measured
- how plates move
- convection current
- transform boundary
- two plates scrape past each other
- reverse fault
- causes rocks to push together
- Oceanic/Continental crust
- thinnest laer
- Control
- thing being tested that is closest to normal
- Inner/outer core
- densest layer
- Earth's layers in order
- oceanic/continental crust, mantel, inner and outer core
- Bar Graph
- used to compare
- younger older
- oceanic crust in _______ at a ridge and ______ near a trench
- hot spots
- ______ ______ are used to track the direction of plate movement
- convergent boundary
- two plates push together
- Divergent boundaries
- also known as spreading centers
- Theory
- logical explanation for something that happens in nature
- After researching a question
- When can you form a hypothesis?
- mantel
- thickest layer