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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

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Process

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Material or energy that comes out of a system

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Output

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Object information that needs to be stored with out any further processing

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Storage

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The layer of rock that forms earth outer skin

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Crust

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The rock below the boundary is this solid material

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Mantle

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The crust and mantle are both in a single layer

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Lithosphere

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The second layer known as the soft layer

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Asthenosphere

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The layer that is formed from increasing pressure 3rd layer

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Mesosphere

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Layer of molten material sour rounding the inner core

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Outer core

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A dense ball of solid metal

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Inner core

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The look and feel of a rocks surface

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Texture

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Thin flat layering

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Foliated

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Grains are arranged randomly

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Nonfoliated

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The process by which dissolved minerals crystallize and glue sediment together

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Cementation

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The process that presses sediments together

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Compaction

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The process by which sediment settles out of water or wind

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Deposition

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Formed from lava coming out of a volcano

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Extrusive

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Magma hardened beneath the surface

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Intrusive

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Forms from the cooling of molten material

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Igneous rock

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Forms when small particles of rock or the remains of plants and animals are pressed together

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Sedimentary rock

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Forms when rocks is changes by heat pressure or chemical reaction

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Metamorphic rock

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Preserved remains or traces of living things

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Fossil

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A rock and it’s age compared to the ages of other rocks

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Relative age

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A radioactive element is the time it takes for half of the radioactive atoms to decay

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Half life

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Scientist use radioactive decay to

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Calculate the age of rock

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What forces magma to erupt

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Pressure

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What was the climate of Pangea

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Hot and dry

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What states that the geologic processes that operate today operates in the past

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Uniformitarinism

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What determines the relative age of sedimentary rock layers

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Superposition

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What did earths earliest atmosphere se lack

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Oxygen

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What was wegners hypothesis

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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

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Sonar

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Where does sea floor spreading begin

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Mid ocean ridges

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Heat transfer between the movement of fluids

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Convection

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Heat transfer between materials that are touching

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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

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Plate techtonics

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What do divergent boundarys do and make

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Move apart and Rift Valley

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What do transform boundarys do and form

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Slip past each other and earthquakes

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What do convergent boundarys do and form

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Come together and mountain

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Volcanoes form along

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Convergent and divergent boundaries

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A molten mixture of rock forming substances gases and water from The mantle

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Magma

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What occurs gradually over days months or even years magma is hot or low in silica

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Quiet eruptions

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Great explosive magma is high in silica

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Explosive

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Why do small earthquakes occur near a volcano

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Because of the shifting plates

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Steep cone shaped hill or mountain

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Cinder come volcano

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Tall cons shaped mountains in which layers of lava alternate with layers of ash

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Composite volcano

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Lava flow slowly which builds this wide gently sloping mountain

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Sheild volcano

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Repeated floods of lava created these high level plateaus

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Lava plateaus

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A major belt of volcano

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Ring of fire

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Volcanos that form at mid ocean ridges occur at what boundarys

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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

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Pyro clastic flow

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Erupt continually

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Active volcano

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Sleeping expected to awake in the future

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Dormat

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Dead expected to never erupt again

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Extinct

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A bowl shaped area that may form at the top of a volcano at the central vent

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Crater

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Magma that squeezes between horizontal rock layer that harden to form

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Sill

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Magma that forces itself across rock layers harden into

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Dike

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A mass of rock formed when a large body of magma cools inside the crust

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Batholiths

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