What do meteorologist study?
The atmosphere, climate, and weather.
Where is earth's crust located?
Outer layer
Lines of _______ are east to west circles around the globe.
Latitude
This term means "Fire" in Latin.
What is Igneous?
The number of cm in one m.
What is 100?
The study of the universe, and the solar system is called.
Astronomy
This sphere includes ALL water on earth
Hydrosphere
Lines of _______ run north and south on the globe.
Longitude
What is melted material beneath earth's surface called?
Magma
What is the largest planet in the solar system?
Jupiter
What does the word "GEOLOGY" mean?
The study of earth
The dense innermost layer of the earth is known as this.
Earth's core
The line of latitude around the middle of the globe at 0 degrees is called the ___________.
Equator
These rocks are composed of pieces of other rocks.
What is sedimentary?
In a scientific experiment, which variable does the experimenter have control over?
What is the independent variable?
He wrote the principles or laws that describe planetary motion.
Who is Kepler?
A ____ is a flat representation of Earth's surface.
Map
How many sides does the equator divide the earth into?
Two .
Marble belongs to this category of metamorphic rocks?
What is nonfoliated?
What do you call animals that eat both plants and meat?
Omnivores
True/False
Ice can be classified as a mineral?
False
True/ False
When entering coordinates into a GPS program, any location North of the Equator is entered as a negative number.
False
What is each half of the earth called?
Hemisphere
These are the building blocks of rocks.
What are minerals?
The number of inner and outer planets.
What is four (4)?