Branches of Earth Science
Includes mineralogy, paleontology, seismology, and volcanology
Geology
The two views on the age of the Earth.
What is Young Earth and Old Earth?
The best and most accurate way to represent the Earth
What is a globe?
Meteorologists use these to track outdoor conditions.
What is a weather map?
Includes physical oceanography and chemical oceanography
What is oceanography?
A radiometric dating process that can only be used on organic matter, such as bones or plants.
What is carbon-14 dating?
The four functions of maps and globes.
What are size, shape, distance, and direction?
The reason time zones started in the United States.
What are trains?
The study of the atmosphere and weather
What is meteorology?
The belief that matter and energy are all that exist and that undirected natural processes formed the universe
What is naturalism?
The three main map projection techniques (ways to draw maps)
What is Azimuthal projection, conical projection, and cylindrical projection?
Astronomers use these to map the night sky.
What is a star chart?
The study of things beyond the earth's atmosphere, such as other planets, stars, asteroids, and comets.
What is astronomy?
The belief that the universe was created purposefully by a supernatural being (God)
What is theism?
Map that shows the positions of the earth's plates and may also show the location of faults, earthquakes, and volcanoes.
What is a tectonic map?
How you can tell steepness of terrain.
Close lines = steepness
Lines far apart = a gentle slope
The study of humans' relationship to their environment
What is environmental science?
The light and dark layers of sediment deposited yearly in some lakes
What are varves?
What the lines on topographic maps show
What are hills and valleys?
Lines of latitude above and below the equator that mark some wind boundaries.
What is the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?