They
Some seismic waves cannot penetrate this region.
What is the earths core?
True or False. The Moho marks the bottom of the lithosphere.
What is false?
The moon's gravity produces
What is the tide on earth?
Place the given resource into one of the following four groups:
Renewable biological, renewable nonbiological, nonrenewable biological,and nonrenenable nonbiological
Hydroelectric power
What is nonrenewable nonbiologica.
Which of the following could give you the most accurate geographic coordinates?
What is a GPS receiver?
Place the given resource into one of the following four groups:
Renewable biological, renewable nonbiological, nonrenewable biological,and nonrenenable nonbiological
drinking water
What is renewable nonbiological?
A professional mapmaker is called a(n)
What is a cartographer?
True or False. A degree of latitude near the Equator and one near the North Pole are nearly the same length in miles.
What is true?
If you were standing at a point at 0° latitude, you would be standing on the __________.
What is equator?
What model would most accurately show the true shape of a continent?
What is a globe?
The International Date Line passes through
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This region contains the asthenosphere.
What is the earths mantle?
What uses of GPS agrees with a biblical view of good and wise dominion?
What is Minimizing civilian casualties during war, tracking stolen cars, and locating survivors at sea.
True or False. Cartographers use map projections to transfer points from a sphere (the earth) to a plane (a flat map).
What is true?
The earth's ________ protects us from harmful radiation particles that are streaming through space.
What is magnetic field?
This region is made of solid, low-density rock.
What is the earth’s crust.
What property or properties can make a resource precious or valuable?
What is the need/demand for it and how accessible it is.
True or False. Every map projection can be viewed as an image of the earth's surface projected onto a plane by an imaginary light bulb located at the center of the earth.
What is false?
True or False. The Flood of Noah's time was worldwide in its extent.
What is true?
North, south, east, and west are called____.
Cardinal direction.
Suggest a good reason for checking the copyright statement on a map.
You need to see how old the map is in order to know how accurate you can expect it to be.
What determines the value of a particular natural resource?
Value is determined by the law of supply and demand. When something is scarce and in great demand, its value will increase. Also, scarcity makes it less accessible, and thus possibly makes it more in demand.
Name three features of the earth that point to supernatural design to nurture life.
the earth's mass and structure, its tilt and rotation, the presence of liquid water, its atmosphere, its magnetic field, its relationship to the sun, and its location in both the solar system and in the universe.
Why is it so significant that the earth is the only planet in our solar system with liquid water on its surface?
All living things depend on liquid water for their existence and survival. Earth is the only planet in the solar system known to possess water in order to support life.
Discuss how you would determine the exact time of local noon for your location.
The shadow of the sun directly over the stake facing the south.