Earth
What is the shape of Earth's orbit?
This model of the solar system has Earth in the center.
What is geocentric?
A closed loop that shows elevation.
What is a contour line?
Remote sensing
What is observing changes on Earth from a distance?
A statement.
What is a scientific fact?
The part of Earth made of water.
What is the hydrosphere?
Earth is an ideal size and it has the right amount of water for life among other things.
Why is Earth a just right planet?
Cartography can be this because we have to draw the locations well.
What is an art?
Subtle
What kind of changes do we observe with remote sensing?
Hypothesis, Experiment, Analysis, Results, and Theory.
What is the Cycle of Scientific Enterprise?
Earth's shape
What is an oblate spheroid?
Earth, Venus, Mars, and Mercury
What are the terrestrial planets?
This tells us how far apart contour lines are on a topographic map.
What is a contour interval?
This is done by sending a signal to others in the same area and timing how long it takes the signal to return.
How do satellites find our location?
This variable is observed by the scientists in the experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
Summer and Winter
What are the solstices?
This solar calendar has 12 months with 30 or 31 days, and a leap year every 4 years.
What is the Gregorian Calendar?
To make 2-D maps of 3-D Earth.
This coordinate is measured either north or south of the equator between the angles of 0-90.
What is latitude?
The tools of science.
What are observations, experiments, and reason?
The Sun is not in the sky for as long, and the Earth is tilted away from the Sun.
Why is Earth colder during winter?
The area in the galaxy that is not too close to the hot inner core, not too close to the outer core which does not have enough elements.
What is the galactic habitable zone?
This projection is useful for making maps of the poles. Everything else is distorted.
What is azimuthal?
A former technique of estimating location based on where a ship left, how fast it was traveling, and how long it was traveling for.
What is dead reckoning?
To find out if the hypothesis is supported by the results or not.
Why is it important for scientists to analyze their results?