Earth's Main Systems
The Scientific Method
The SI System
Scientific Notation
Branches of Earth Science
100
The blanket of gases surrounding the Earth
What is the atmosphere?
100
A testable explanation of a situation that can be supported or disproved by careful procedures.
What is a hypothesis?
100
The SI base unit for distance.
What is the meter?
100
The range allowed for the first part of a number in scientific notation.
What is greater than or equal to 1 but less than 10.
100
This science is the study of Earth's oceans.
What is oceanography?
200
All the water on Earth, including in the atmosphere.
What is the hydrosphere?
200
The variable that is changed by the experimenter.
What is the independent variable?
200
The SI base unit for temperature.
What is Kelvin?
200
The value of the exponent on the 10 in scientific notation comes from this.
What is how many places the decimal point is moved?
200
The study of the changing atmosphere and weather.
What meteorology?
300
All of the organisms on Earth, as well as the environments in which they live.
What is the biosphere?
300
An explanation based on many observations during repeated investigations.
What is a scientific theory?
300
The SI base unit for mass.
What is the kilogram?
300
A negative exponent in scientific notation comes from this.
What is a number less than one (or from moving the decimal point to the right).
300
The study of objects beyond Earth's atmosphere.
What is astronomy?
400
Everything from the surface to the center of the Earth.
What is the geosphere?
400
A factor that is not changed during an experiment.
What is a constant?
400
A commonly used, non-SI volume unit, equal to 1 cubic decimeter.
What is a liter?
400
The number 28,000 expressed in scientific notation.
What is 2.8x10^4?
400
The study of the materials that make up the Earth, the changes the Earth undergoes, and the history of the planet.
What is geology?
500
The "sphere" that has the most impact of the other "spheres"
What is the biosphere?
500
This is used in an experiment to show that the results are due to the condition being tested.
What is a control?
500
A unit that results from combining SI base units.
What is a derived unit?
500
The value of 8.2x10^-2 expressed in standard notation.
What is 0.082?
500
The study of the interactions of organisms and their surroundings.
What is environmental science?
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