Tools
A tool used to measure length.
What is a meter stick?
A model you can touch.
What is a physical model?
A system of ideas that explains many related observations and is supported by a large body of evidence acquired through scientific investigation.
What is a theory?
A tool that points to the magnetic north pole.
What is a compass?
Shows elevation.
What is a contour line?
Temperature is measured by-
What is a thermometer
Model made of equations.
What is a mathematical model?
An equation that reliably predicts events under certain conditions.
What is a Law?
The distance east or west from the prime meridian.
what is longitude?
The distance between one contour line and the next.
What is contour interval?
A stopwatch that measures-
What is Time?
A Model that can process over 30 trillion calculations every second.
What is a computer model?
In the Greek time it was in the center of the solar system.
What is the earth?
The distance north or south from the equator.
What is latitude?
Darker heavier contour line that is usually every fifth line that is labeled by elevation.
What is a index countour?
What is a graduated cylinder?
A model made by a computer showing a thing over periods of time.
What is a graph?
A theory supported by scientific evidence.
A scientific theory?
Uses satellite mounted sensors to collect microwaves.
What is passive remote sensing?
A section of a map that tells about the map.
What is a legend?
The tool used to measure force
What is a spring scale?
Predicts weather patterns and results of climate change.
What is a super computer?
The theory that says the sun is in the middle of the solar system.
What is the law of universal gravitation?
Emits its own microwaves.
What is active remote sensing?
What is the rules of contour lines?