unit 3 science quiz

earth thin cool and rigid outermost rock layer

• core
• atmosphere
• mantle
• crust

Earth hot, dense, intermost rock layer located below the mantle

• crust
• bob the builder

• mantle
• core

a property of matter that is equal to the amount of mass in a certain volume of matter

• density
• weight
• volume
• temperature

the physical or chemical breakdown of a rock on Earth's surface

• tectonic activity
• weathering
• volcanism
• erosion

a well-established group of ideas or models that is supported by a large amount of evidence and that can be used to explain many different phenomena

• hypothesis
• guess
• Scientific theory 

  
  

• opinion

The limitations on an engineering solution.

• constraints

• Challenges
• Problems
• Obstacles

the requirements that must be met for an engineering solution to be successful

• Meeting deadlines, cost-effectiveness, safety and reliability, environmental friendliness, feasibility
• Innovation, cost-effectiveness, safety and reliability, environmental friendliness, feasibility
• Criteria 

  
  

• Meeting objectives, cost-effectiveness, efficiency, environmental friendliness, feasibility

the hypothesis that the continents slowly drifted to their current position after having been part of a single, giant landmass that broke apart 

• continental drift
• continental shift
• tectonic plates
• plate tectonics

the removal of rock material by wind water ice or gravity

• sedimentation
• erosion
• weathering
• deposition

The idea that any natural processes we can Observe today happened in the same way in the past and will also happen in the same way in the future

• principle of uniformity
• law of conservation
• theory of relativity
• uniformitarianism