What is Earth Science?
This is the study of earth, its history and its changes.
What is Earth Science?
This is the study of the entire atmosphere, including weather forecasting.
What is meteorology?
This is when we use our 5 senses to gather information.
What is observing?
This is a series of steps that scientists use to answer questions and solve problems.
What is the scientific method?
The factor that you are testing or changing in an experiment.
What is independent variable?
These are three spheres of Earth.
What is lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere?
These are the three types of oceanographers.
What is physical, geological and chemical oceanography? (Physical studies waves and currents, geological studies the sea floor, and chemical studies natural chemicals and pollution)
This describes what inferring is.
This describes two characteristics that hypothesis must have.
What is must be testable ad relevant?
The definition of a dependent variable.
What is the factor that changes as a result of changing the independent variable? (What you are measuring.)
This is the sphere that is solid on Earth.
What is the lithosphere?
This is the study of all physical things beyond earth.
What is astronomy?
This is a guess or suggested solution or answer to a question.
What is a hypothesis?
This defines a controlled experiment.
What is an experiment that tests only one factor or variable at a time, keeping all other variables constant?
These are the factors that remain the same throughout an experiment.
What are constants?
What is the hydrosphere?
This is the study of solid earth
What is geology? (includes volcanologist, seismologist, paleontologist)
These are examples of modeling.
What are maps, 3-D models, charts, graphs, diagrams and computer simulations?
This is how scientists test a hypothesis.
What is design and conduct and experiment?
Describes a control experiment.
What is the experimental setup that you compare your results to? (You don't use the independent variable on this one.)
This is the gaseous sphere of earth.
What is the atmosphere?
This describes what ecology, geochemistry, environmental science and geography/cartography?
Ecology = study of ecosystems (organisms and their surroundings)
Geochemistry = study of the chemical makeup of rocks, minerals and soil.
Environmental Science = study of the interactions of humans and their environment.
Geography/cartography = study of the surface features and maps.
These are 9 skills scientists need.
What is observing, inferring, predicting, measuring, classifying, organizing, hypothesizing, modeling, and analyzing?
These are the 8 steps of the scientific method.
What is ask a question, gather information (research), form a hypothesis, test hypothesis, organize and analyze data, draw a conclusion, repeat work and communicate results?
This identifies the dependent and independent variables in an experiment to study the how quickly students complete a math test with and without a calculator.
What is access to a calculator (independent variable) and the time it took to finish the test (dependent variable)?