What Is Science?
A possible explanation for a set of observations or an answer to a scientific question.
What is a hypothesis?
The four main parts of the Earth system are the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and this rigid outer layer.
What is the lithosphere?
The three main types of landforms found on Earth's surface.
What are mountains, plains, and plateaus?
Mapmakers connect points of equal elevation on a map using these specialized lines.
What are contour lines?
This foundational practice helps you stay safe when doing science activities both in the laboratory and in the field.
What is good preparation?
The variable that a scientist purposely changes during a controlled experiment.
What is a manipulated variable?
Earth science covered in this book includes environmental science, meteorology, and this study of the solid Earth.
What is geology?
The term used to describe the height above sea level of a point on Earth's surface.
What is elevation?
The change in elevation from one contour line to the next next consecutive line.
What is a contour interval?
No matter how minor it seems, you must do this immediately if any accident occurs.
What is notify your teacher?
This describes an observed pattern in nature but does not attempt to explain it.
What is a scientific law?
The Earth system's primary external source of energy for its many surface processes.
What is the sun?
The difference in elevation between the highest and lowest parts of an area.
What is relief?
These lines are darker, heavier, and usually labeled with an exact elevation on a topographic map.
What are index contours?
After reporting an accident, you must listen to your teacher's directions and do this.
What is carry them out quickly?
The many unique ways in which scientists study the natural world and propose explanations based on gathered evidence.
What is scientific inquiry?
The three distinct ways that energy can be transferred from place to place.
What are moving objects, waves, and heat flow?
This feature relates distance on a map to a distance on Earth's surface.
What is a scale?
Widely spaced contour lines on a topographic map indicate that the slope of the land is this.
What is gentle (or flat)?
Safety guidelines apply not only inside the building but also when doing science activities out here.
What is in the field?
Unlike a law, this is a well-tested explanation for a wide range of observations or experimental results.
What is a scientific theory?
The specific term for the total energy of all the particles in an object, which moves as heat flow.
What is thermal energy?
These imaginary lines form a grid over the Earth and measure distances north or south of the equator, and east or west of the prime meridian.
What are latitude and longitude?
To accurately read a topographic map, you must familiarize yourself with these two critical tools included on the document.
What are the map's scale and symbols?
When an emergency happens, your primary guide for what steps to take next is always this individual.
Who is your teacher?