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When you explain or interpret the things you observe

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Inferring

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Means using one or more of your senses to gather information

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Observing

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Making a statement or claim about what you think will happen in the future

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Predicting

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The grouping together of items that are alike in some ways

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Classifying

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Refers to the diverse ways in which scientists study the naturAl world and propose explanations based on the evidence gathered

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Scientific inquiry

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A possible answer to a scientific question

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Hypothesis

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Shows how one variable responds to the other

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Line graph

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SI unit for length is

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Meter

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SI unit for mass is

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Kilogram

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SI unit for measuring volume is

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Cubic meter

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SI unit for density is

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Kilograms per cubic meter

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SI unit for time is

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Second

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SI unit for temperature is

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Kelvin

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A measure of the force of gravity acting on an object

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Weight

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A measure of the amount of matter in an object

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Mass

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The amount of space something takes up

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Volume

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The measure of how much mass is contained in a given volume

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Density

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A well tested explanation for a wide range of observations or expire mental result

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Scientific theory

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Any representative of an object or process

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Model

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A biologist who wrote about science and nature

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Rachel Carson

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A statement that describes what scientists expect to happen every time under particular conditions

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Scientific law

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Show only and few things and are simple to understand

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Simple systems

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Many parts and many variables interact

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Complex system

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Material or energy that goes into a system

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Input

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What happens In a system
Process
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Material or energy that comes out of a system
Output
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Object information that needs to be stored with out any further processing
Storage
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The layer of rock that forms earth outer skin
Crust
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The rock below the boundary is this solid material
Mantle
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The crust and mantle are both in a single layer
Lithosphere
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The second layer known as the soft layer
Asthenosphere
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The layer that is formed from increasing pressure 3rd layer
Mesosphere
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Layer of molten material sour rounding the inner core
Outer core
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A dense ball of solid metal
Inner core
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The look and feel of a rocks surface
Texture
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Thin flat layering
Foliated
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Grains are arranged randomly
Nonfoliated
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The process by which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue sediment together
Cementation
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The process that presses sediments together
Compaction
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The process by which sediment settles out of water or wind
Deposition
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Formed from lava coming out of a volcano
Extrusive
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Magma hardened beneath the surface
Intrusive
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Forms from the cooling of molten material
Igneous rock
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Forms when small particles of rock or the remains of plants and animals are pressed together
Sedimentary rock
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Forms when rocks is changes by heat pressure or chemical reaction
Metamorphic rock
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Preserved remains or traces of living things
Fossil
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A rock and it's age compared to the ages of other rocks
Relative age
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A radioactive element is the time it takes for half of the radioactive atoms to decay
Half life
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Scientist use radioactive decay to
Calculate the age of rock
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What forces magma to erupt
Pressure
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What was the climate of Pangea
Hot and dry
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What states that the geologic processes that operate today operates in the past
Uniformitarinism
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What determines the relative age of sedimentary rock layers
Superposition
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What did earths earliest atmosphere se lack
Oxygen
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What was wegners hypothesis
All the continents were once joined together in a single landmass that have since drifted apart
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A device that uses sound waves to measure the distance to an object
Sonar
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Where does sea floor spreading begin
Mid ocean ridges
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Heat transfer between the movement of fluids
Convection
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Heat transfer between materials that are touching
Conduction
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Earths plates and plate motion into a single theory which states earths plate are in constant motion from convection currents
Plate techtonics
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What do divergent boundarys do and make
Move apart and Rift Valley
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What do transform boundarys do and form
Slip past each other and earthquakes
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What do convergent boundarys do and form
Come together and mountain
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Volcanoes form along
Convergent and divergent boundaries
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A molten mixture of rock forming substances gases and water from The mantle
Magma
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What occurs gradually over days months or even years magma is hot or low in silica
Quiet eruptions
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Great explosive magma is high in silica
Explosive
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Why do small earthquakes occur near a volcano
Because of the shifting plates
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Steep cone shaped hill or mountain
Cinder come volcano
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Tall cons shaped mountains in which layers of lava alternate with layers of ash
Composite volcano
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Lava flow slowly which builds this wide gently sloping mountain
Sheild volcano
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Repeated floods of lava created these high level plateaus
Lava plateaus
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A major belt of volcano
Ring of fire
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Volcanos that form at mid ocean ridges occur at what boundarys
Divergent
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The mixture of hot gases ash cinders and bombs that flow down the sides of a volcano when it erupts explosively
Pyro clastic flow
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Erupt continually
Active volcano
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Sleeping expected to awake in the future
Dormat
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Dead expected to never erupt again
Extinct
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A bowl shaped area that may form at the top of a volcano at the central vent
Crater
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Magma that squeezes between horizontal rock layer that harden to form
Sill
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Magma that forces itself across rock layers harden into
Dike
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A mass of rock formed when a large body of magma cools inside the crust
Batholiths

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