Fall Final Exam Review
Across
- 3. Measured information that uses numbers.
- 4. Map that shows countries, borders, and cities.
- 6. Layer beneath the crust, involved in plate movement.
- 8. Earth’s solid outer layer; thinner under oceans, thicker under continents.
- 9. Map that shows natural and political features.
- 10. Science that studies past events that cannot be observed directly (e.g., formation of mountains).
- 12. An experiment where only one factor is changed at a time.
- 16. Most accurate representation of Earth’s shape.
- 17. God’s command to people to study and use the earth wisely for His glory and human benefit.
- 20. A layer of rock.
- 21. A testable explanation that provides direction for scientific investigations.
- 24. Basic beliefs you already hold before doing science.
- 25. Material made of only one kind of atom or molecule (e.g., aluminum).
- 26. Difference between the highest and lowest elevations in an area.
- 28. A force that acts over a distance (gravity, magnetism).
- 29. Boundary where plates slide past each other.
Down
- 1. Anything that has mass and takes up space.
- 2. Descriptive information that uses words, not numbers.
- 5. A workable explanation used to describe or show how something works.
- 7. Surface features of a region.
- 11. Boundary where plates move toward each other.
- 12. Center of the Earth, mostly iron.
- 13. Study of the earth.
- 14. Map that shows elevation and landform shapes.
- 15. New crust forms at mid-ocean ridges.
- 18. Large pieces of Earth’s crust that move.
- 19. One plate is forced under another at convergent boundaries.
- 22. Boundary where plates move apart.
- 23. Technology that gathers and maps geographic data (uses radar, sonar, surveying).
- 27. Field force pulling masses toward each other; important for geologists.
- 29. Map that shows specific topic (like animal ranges).