5.1.1

Scientific investigations usually begin with

• making observations and defining problems

• making hypotheses and designing experiments

• making conclusions and sharing results

• gathering data and analyzing it

A hypothesis is a type of

• observation

• prediction

• conclusion

• analysis

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A valid hypothesis must be

• true

• testable

• part of a scientific law

• a random guess

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Microscopes, telescopes, and thermometers are some of the tools that help scientists make:

• observations

• opinions

• hypotheses

• conclusions

List the steps of the scientific method

d

e

f

c

b

a

Conduct experiment

Ask a question

Form a hypothesis

Analyze results

Communicate results

Draw conclusions

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If you used the theory of plate tectonics to predict the most likely place for the next earthquake or volcanic eruption, you should predict that it is most likely to occur:

• Where a continental lithospheric plate is being subducted beneath an oceanic lithospheric plate

• In the interior of any continent

• Where one has not happened in at least 10 million years

• Along boundaries between colliding lithospheric plates

• None correct

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Which block diagram represents the plate motion that causes the earthquakes that occur along the San Andreas Fault in California?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

• None correct

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Which of the following increases with distance from a mid-ocean ridge?

• The depth to the sea floor

• The thickness of the lithosphere

• The age of oceanic lithosphere

• All of these

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At convergent plate boundaries where oceanic and continental crust meet _________ .

• Oceanic crust is subducted

• No associated volcanism occurs

• Oceanic crust is created

• Continental crust is subducted

• None correct

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Partial melting and the production of magma takes place at ________ .

• Ocean-continent plate boundaries

• Divergent plate boundaries

• Ocean-ocean convergent plate boundaries

• All of the these

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