Lesson 1
Which sphere includes all the water on Earth, such as rivers, oceans, and lakes?
What is the Hydrosphere?
What is it called when you gather factual information using your senses?
What is an observation?
What type of crust is about 7 km thick, composed of basalt, and is more dense and younger?
What is oceanic crust?
What is the SI base unit for mass?
What is the kilogram (kg)?
What is the science of mapmaking called?
What is cartography?
In an experiment, what is the term for the factor that you change to see how it affects other variables?
What is the independent variable?
What is the term for when two variables are linked, but one does not necessarily cause the other?
What is correlation?
Which part of Earth's core is liquid?
What is the outer core?
How many millimeters are in a meter?
What is 1,000 millimeters?
What is the name of the line that divides Earth horizontally and is located at 0° latitude?
What is the Equator?
When graphing data, on which axis is the dependent variable typically plotted?
What is the Y-axis?
Which branch of Earth Science focuses on the study of the Earth’s oceans?
What is Oceanography?
What drives convection currents in Earth's mantle?
What is heat from the Earth's core, caused by radioactivity?
On a geologic time scale, humans have existed for a very short amount of time. If Earth's 4.6 billion-year history were compressed into one hour, around what time did the first modern humans appear?
What is 59 minutes and 59.8 seconds?
In which hemisphere are locations with positive longitude coordinates?
What is the Eastern Hemisphere?
This sphere encompasses all living things on Earth, from plants and animals to humans and microbes. What is it?
What is the Biosphere?
In Earth System Science, what is a system?
What is a group of interacting or interdependent parts that form a complex whole?
Which type of Earth's crust is thicker, less dense, and older, and is composed of a variety of rock types, including granitic rock?
What is continental crust?
Using the metric ladder method, convert 17 meters to centimeters.
What is 1,700 centimeters?
What do contour lines on a topographic map represent?
What is elevation?
When creating a graph, which type of graph is best used to show parts of a whole?
What is a pie chart?
Using the example of ice cream sales and shark attacks, explain why correlation does not equal causation.
What is: Although both ice cream sales and shark attacks increase in summer, they are not caused by each other but are both influenced by hot weather and more people being at the beach?
How fast do tectonic plates move each year?
What is about 5 cm per year, or as fast as your fingernails grow?
How many meters are in 3.5 kilometers?
What is 3,500 meters?
What kind of map shows the distribution of rocks, fault lines, and geologic formations beneath the soil?
What is a geologic map?