Scientific Method
This is information gathered using your senses or scientific instruments.
What is an observation?
The study of Earth and its systems.
What is Earth science?
The largest population of organisms that an environment can support over time.
What is carrying capacity?
The rigid outer layer of Earth made of the crust and uppermost mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
The element that makes up the greatest percentage of Earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
This is the variable that is changed by the scientist during an experiment
What is the independent variable?
A well-supported explanation of natural phenomena, unlike a scientific law, which describes a consistent pattern.
What is a scientific theory?
The difference between these two terms: one includes all places on Earth where life exists, while the other describes organisms interacting with their environment in a particular area.
What are the biosphere and an ecosystem?
The branch of Earth science that studies the solid Earth.
What is geology?
The two greatest sources of energy for Earth's systems.
What are solar energy and Earth's internal energy?
These are the factors that change as a result of an experiment.
What are dependent variables?
Physical, mathematical, computer, and conceptual are four types of these that scientists use to explain data.
What are scientific models?
A system in which energy, but not matter, is exchanged with the surroundings.
What is a closed system?
The major divisions of Earth arranged from the outside toward the center.
What are Earth's layers?
The Earth's sphere through which phosphorus does not cycle.
What is the atmosphere?
This describes how close a measurement is to the accepted value, while the other term describes how close repeated measurements are to one another.
What is Accuracy & precision
The scientific study of the solid Earth.
What is geology?
A system in which both matter and energy are exchanged with the surroundings.
What is an open system?
This layer of Earth is found directly beneath the crust and makes up most of Earth's interior.
What is the mantle?
The process by which matter and nutrients move through Earth's systems.
What is the cycling of matter?
The five basic steps scientists commonly use to investigate a question.
What are the steps of the scientific method?
The study of Earth's land, water, atmosphere, and the processes that shape and change our planet.
What is Earth science?
Organisms that break down dead material and help return nutrients to the environment.
What are decomposers?
This is the solid, innermost layer of Earth, made mostly of iron and nickel.
What is the inner core?
These organisms help cycle matter by breaking down dead organisms and waste.
What are decomposers?