Representation of an object, process or phenomenon
What is a model?
Practical application of science to meet human needs
What is technology?
The part of an experiment that you are changing
What is the manipulated/ independent variable?
The part of the experiment that does not change.
What is a control?
An If…then statement that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
Number of centiliters in a liter
What is 100 c. L?
One component of the scientific method and how it works.
Answer varies
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Reason scientists hypothesize
What is to create testable scenarios to prove/disprove?
Purpose of peer review
What is to decide if the work has merit, determining if the work is correct and/or to determine if the hypothesis has been proven correct?
Scientific explanations must be supported by this.
What is evidence/proof /data?
Branch of physics dealing with energy.
What is theromodynamics?
When energy changes, it goes from ______ to _______
What is from a more concentrated form to a less concentrated form?
List two places in which energy is stored.
What is wind/waves, fossil fuels, solar energy, plants/animals, liquids/gasses, geothermal, tidal energy?
Two ways that solar energy is affected as it travels through the 4 spheres.
What is some is reflected, some for evaporation/transpiration and precipitation, some converted into wave/wind energy, some converted to heat energy and some stored in various places?
If energy into the Earth system is greater than energy out…. the affect on the climate.
What is it gets warmer?
Trace 3 steps of the nitrogen cycle.
Answers vary?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
Cannot leave a closed system.
What is matter?
Sequence of events that repeats itself
What is a cycle?
Photosynthesis is part of this cycle.
What is the carbon cycle?
True/False Energy can be created.
What is false?
Three cycles important to humans.
What are the carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle and the water cycle?
Difference between a closed system and an open system
What is matter can get out of an open system but not out of a closed system?
Group that has the largest effect on the Earth’s systems
What are humans?
Scientific tool used for measuring volume precisely