Section 1.1
The two types of Geology.
What is physical and historical?
The 4 spheres of Earth.
What are the hydrosphere, atmosphere, geosphere and biosphere?
What is Latitude?
Any size group of interacting parts that form a complex whole.
What is a system?
A scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways that support or reject it.
What is a hypothesis?
The study of the oceans.
What is Oceanography?
Area of Earth where living things are.
What is the biosphere?
The VERTICAL lines that tell us how far east or west we are on the planet.
What is longitude?
A system where energy moves freely in and out, but no matter enters or leaves.
What is a closed system?
Various factors in an experiment that can change.
What is a variable?
The study of Earth.
What is geology?
Area of Earth that contains all of the water.
What is the hydrosphere?
The line of 0 degrees longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
A system where both energy and matter flow freely in and out.
What is an open system?
A well-established, highly reliable explanation of a natural or physical phenomenon.
What is a theory?
The study of the processes that create weather.
What is meteorology?
Area of Earth where the tectonic plates are.
What is the geosphere?
The line of 0 degrees latitude.
What is the Equator?
The two sources of energy on Earth.
What are the sun and Earths interior?
A concise, specific statement that summarizes a pattern found in nature.
What is a scientific law?
The study of the Universe.
What is astronomy?
Theory that provides geologists an explanation for why volcanoes erupt, earthquakes happen and continents move.
What is the theory of plate tectonics?
A map that shows elevation on Earth through the use of contour lines.
What is a topographic map?
A resource that can be replenished over time.
What is a renewable resource?
The process that involves; gathering scientific facts, developing a hypothesis, testing a hypothesis and finally either discarding/keeping/revising said hypothesis.
What is the scientific method?