6th Earth Science Midterm study guide

Scientific method steps

• the process by which ocean floor sinks beneath trenches
• What is science?

• 1. posing questions

  2. 2. Form Hypotheses

  3. 3. Design an experiment

  4. 4. Collect and interpret data

  5. 5. Draw conclusions

  6. 6. Communicate

• Earth's oceans, lakes, rivers, and ice

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

What is an Observation?

• a place where two plates come together
• Earth's solid rocky outer layer
• Information obtained through the senses.
• 6. communicating

What is the Biosphere made up of?

• the transfer of energy through space
• the force that causes plate motion
• Part of Earth where life exists
• landform with high elevation and high relief

What is the Hydrosphere made up of?

• 1. posing questions
• Earth's oceans, lakes, rivers, and ice
• A break in the earth's crust
• landform with high elevation and high relief

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is the Lithosphere made up of?

• 6. communicating
• Information obtained through the senses.
• Earth's solid rocky outer layer
• produced by A collision between two pieces of continental crust at a converging boundary

What is the Atmosphere made up of?

• Earth's outermost sphere which is made of gasses
• landform with high elevation and high relief
• a place where two plates come together
• part of the mantle that is less rigid

What is a Plateau?

• the center of the Earth
• landform with high elevation and a level surface
• Earth's oceans, lakes, rivers, and ice
• produced by A collision between two pieces of continental crust at a converging boundary

What is a Mountain?

• Earth's outermost sphere which is made of gasses
• drawing conclusions

• the center of the Earth
• landform with high elevation and high relief

What is a Plain?

• An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; occurs at a divergent plate boundary.
• a place where two plates come together
• nearly flat and with low relief
• communicating

What is Elevation?

• height of land above sea level
• Earth's oceans, lakes, rivers, and ice
• Earth's outer skin
• Information obtained through the senses.