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1 st Term Vocabulary

1 st Term Vocabulary. Constant variable. Keeps things the same between treatment groups. Controlled variable. The plain or unaltered group in an experiment. Dependent variable. The dependent variable changes as a result of a change in the independent variable. Independent variable.

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1 st Term Vocabulary

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  1. 1st Term Vocabulary

  2. Constant variable • Keeps things the same between treatment groups.

  3. Controlled variable • The plain or unaltered group in an experiment.

  4. Dependent variable • The dependent variable changes as a result of a change in the independent variable.

  5. Independent variable • The variable that is changed in an experiment.

  6. Igneous rock • Intrusive or extrusive rock that is produced when melted rock from inside Earth cools and hardens.

  7. Metamorphic rock • New rock that is formed when existing rock is heated or squeezed.

  8. Sedimentary Rock • A type of rock made from pieces of other rocks, dissolved minerals, or plant and animal matter that collect to form rock layers.

  9. minerals • Inorganic material found in nature.

  10. Rock cycle • Diagram that shows the slow, continuous process of rocks changing from one type to another.

  11. Earth’s layers • The interior structure of Earth.

  12. Earthquake • Movement of the ground that occurs when rock inside Earth pass their elastic limit, break suddenly, and experience elastic rebound.

  13. Mountain building • The geological process that underlie the formation of mountains.

  14. Plate • A large section of Earth’s oceanic or continental crust and rigid upper mantle that moves.

  15. Seafloor spreading • Hess’s theory that new seafloor is formed when magma is forced upward toward the surface at mid-ocean ridge.

  16. volcano • Cone shaped hill or mountain formed when hot magma, solids, and gasses erupt onto Earth’s surface through a vent.

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