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| A way or process used to investigate what is happeing around us |
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| application of science to make useful products and tools |
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- reconiges a problem
- Form a hypothis
- Test the hypothesis
- analyze Results
- Draw conclusions
- communicate Results
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| Prediction about a problem that can be tested |
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| collection of related hypothosis that have been tested and supported |
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| Varable that you purposly change and test during an experiment |
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| Varable that changes as a result of independent varable (facter being measured during an experiment) |
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| group that is tested; contains the independent variable |
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| serves the standard of compasion /nam to test aginst |
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| proposed hypothesis of continental drift |
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| propsed theory of seafoor spreading |
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| Hypothesis continets drifted slowly to their current locations |
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| supercontint from which all of the continetnts moved from |
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| thery new seafloor is formed when pangea is forced upward to the surface at a mid-ocean ridge |
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| fossil clues, rock clues,plant clues,climate clues |
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| mid-ocean ridges rocks show magnetic reversal |
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| Earth cust and upper mantle are broken into sections are called plates |
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| crust and upper mantle (plates) |
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| plastic-like layer below the lithospher on which the plates float and move around |
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| plates slide past one another |
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| cycle of heating,rising,cooling,&sinking |
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| tension force/ rocks above the fault move downward |
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| Compression corce/ roks above the fault move upward |
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| shear force / rocks slide past one another |
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| Fastest/ rocks move back and forth in the direction of the wave |
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| rocks move at right angles to the direction to the wave |
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