Earth Science
Methods Of Scientists
Communicating in Science
Mapping Our World
Types of maps
100
The branch of Earth science that studies the air that surrounds our planet
What is meteorology?
100
The suggested explanation for an observation
What is the hypothesis?
100
An explanation based on many observations during repeated experiments
What is a theory?
100
The science of mapmaking
What is cartography?
100
A map that has parallel lines of latitude and longitude
What is a mercator projection?
200
The water in Earth's oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and glaciers, as well as the water in the atmosphere
What is the hydrosphere?
200
The factor that is manipulated by the experiment
What is the independent variable?
200
An idea, a system, or a mathematical expression that is similar to the ides being explained
What is a scientific model?
200
The distance in degrees north and south of the equator
What is latitude?
200
Connects the points of equal elevation
What is the contour line?
300
The study of Earth's oceans, which cover nearly three-fourths of the planet
What is oceanography?
300
The most scientific studies and experiments uses this standard system of units
What is Le Syste'me International d'Unite's, SI for short?
300
States that an object at rest or in motion stays at rest or in motion unless it is acted upon by an outside force
What is Sir Isaac Newton's first law of motion?
300
Separates Earth into two equal halves called the northern hemisphere and the southeern hemisphere
What is the equator?
400
The rigid outer shell of the planet and includes the crust and the sloid, uppermost part of the layer below the crust, the mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
400
Used to express a number as a multiplier and a power of 10
What is scientific notation?
400
A basic fact that describes the behavior of a natural phenomenon
What is law?
400
The distance in degrees east or west of the prime meridian
What is longitude?
400
Made by projecting points and lines from a globe onto a cone
What is a conic projection?
500
The measure of a matter that occupies a given space
What is density?
500
The factor that can change in an experiment, depending on the independent variable
What is the dependent variable?
500
A visual display that shows how two variables are related
What is a graph?
500
Represents 0 degrees longitude
What is the prime meridian?
500
To aid in the interpretation of topographic maps, some contour lines are marked by numbers representing their elevation
What are index contours?
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