Branches of Earth Science
The study of forces that have shaped earth throughout history.
What is Geology?
Forces that build up mountains and land Masses?
What are constructive forces?
The variable that a scientist changes.
What is a manipulated variable?
The distance on a map relative to a distance on Earth’s surface.
What is scale?
Mountains, plains, and plateaus.
What are earth’s three main landforms?
The study of Earth’s resources
What is Environmental Science?
Earth’s oceans, lakes, rivers, and ice.
What is the hydrosphere?
A test of a hypothesis.
What is a controlled experiment?
An imaginary line that divides the earth in half from north to south poles.
What is the prime meridian?
You must be familiar with these in order to interpret contour lines on a topographic map.
What are scale and symbols?
The study of Earth’s atmosphere and climate.
What is Meteorology?
The process at work in erosion and weathering.
What is a destructive force?
A well tested scientific concept.
What is a scientific theory?
A map with straight lines of longitude and latitude.
What is a Mercator map?
When giving someone the coordinations of your location, you always give this number first.
What is latitude?
The study of all things having to do with the ocean.
What is oceanography?
All living things.
What is the biosphere?
Describes an observed pattern in nature but does not provide an explanation for it.
What is a scientific law?
A map which uses contour lines to represent changes in elevation.
What is a topographic map?
You live in this landform region.
What is the piedmont plateau?
The study of the universe beyond Earth.
What is astronomy?
Earth’s outermost sphere.
What is the atmosphere?
The variable that changes because of the manipulated variable.
What is the responding variable?
A map which correctly shows the relative sizes of earth’s land masses.
What is an equal area map?
The difference in elevation between the highest and lowest parts of an area.
What is relief?