What is Earth Science?
The name for the group of sciences that studies Earth and its neighbors in space.
What is Earth science?
All of the water that makes up the earth.
What is the hydrosphere?
The distance north or south of the equator, measured in degrees.
What is latitude?
A well-established highly reliable explanation of a natural or physical phenomenon.
What is a theory?
The science that examines Earth, its form and composition, and the changes it has undergone and is undergoing.
What is geology?
The innermost layer of the Earth, located beneath the mantle.
What is the core?
The distance east and west of the prime meridian measured in degrees.
A scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways that support or reject it.
An educated guess.
What is a hypothesis?
The scientific study of the oceans.
What is oceanography?
The thick layer of the Earth located below the crust.
What is the mantle?
Lines used to indicate the elevation of the land.
What are contour lines?
It is a concise, specific statement that summarizes a pattern found in nature.
What is scientific law?
The study of the atmosphere and the processes that produce weather and climate.
What is meteorology?
The thin, rock outer layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
This interval tells you the difference in elevation between adjacent lines.
What is the contour interval.
Factors that can be changed when testing a hypothesis.
What are variables?
The study of the universe.
What is astronomy?
This includes all life on Earth.
What is the biosphere?
A map that represents the Earth's three-dimensional surface.
What is a topographical map?
An experiment where only one variable is changed while other variables remain constant.
What is controlled experiment?