Scientific Knowledge
Earth's Spheres
Weather and Climate
Weathering, Erosion, Deposition, and Landforms
Energy, Motion, Forces
100
The study of natural events.
What is science?
100
All of the liquid and solid water in the world would be categorized in these two spheres.
What are the hydrosphere and cryosphere?
100
Often confused with the term weather, this describes the atmospheric conditions of an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
100
The break down of rock by chemical reactions.
What is chemical weathering?
100
States that in a closed system energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
200
A well supported, widely accepted explanation of nature.
What is a theory?
200
Maintains a suitable temperature for living things to survive and liquid water to be available.
What is the atmosphere?
200
Evaporation, condensation, and precipitation are all a part of this cycle.
What is the water cycle?
200
Agents include water, ice, wind, and gravity.
What is erosion, weathering, or deposition?
200
A push or a pull.
What is force?
300
What a scientist will manipulate or change in an investigation.
What is the independent variable?
300
You, a human, belong to this sphere.
What is the biosphere?
300
As air is heated it rises creating this.
What is an area of low pressure?
300
Dunes can be found on Florida's coastline due to this process of the settling of eroded sediment.
What is deposition?
300
This will change an object's speed, direction, or both.
What is an unbalanced force?
400
Scientists use this to describe what will happen in the natural world under specific conditions.
What is a law?
400
Grass takes root in this sphere.
What is the geosphere?
400
Thunderstorms, hurricanes, tornadoes, and tsunamis could all be categorized as this.
What are natural disasters?
400
Abrasion is an agent of this.
What is mechanical or physical weathering?
400
The sum of the PE and KE an object has.
What is mechanical energy?
500
Parts of this include defining a problem, identifying variables, and defending a conclusion.
What is the scientific method?
500
This protects life on Earth by absorbing most of the harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun.
What is the ozone layer?
500
A large volume of air with the same temperature, humidity, and pressure throughout.
What is an air mass?
500
Although this landform cannot be found in Florida it has affected Florida's coastline due to changing the sea level.
What is a glacier?
500
This is a non-contact force in which every object exerts on every other object.
What is gravity?
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