Branches of Earth Science
How many branches of Earth Science are there?
What is 4?
What does a biological oceanographer study?
What is one example of a system interaction.
What is hurricane, volcano, or earthquake?
What is the name of the system that is a blanket of air around the earth?
What is the atmosphere?
Data that is countable or measurable
What is Quantitative Data?
What is Astronomy?
What is the study of the universe?
What percent of water on Earth is fresh water?
What is 3%?
What is the geosphere (lithosphere)?
What is the solid part of the earth from the core to the surface?
A planned organized approach to solving a problem
What is the Scientific Method?
What is the study of the atmosphere, specifically weather and climate?
What is Meteorology?
What scientist studies the Earth's history, rocks, and glaciers?
What is a geologist?
What are the 2 most common gases in the atmosphere?
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
What is the Biosphere?
What is the system that includes all living things on earth?
The variable that is being measured.
What is the dependent variable?
What is the study of Earth's history, structures and processes?
What is Geology?
What does a seismologist study?
What percent of fresh water on earth is frozen?
What is 70%
What is the hydrosphere?
What is the system of Earth that includes all the water at or near the Earth's surface?
A proposed explanation for a phenomenon.
What is a hypothesis?
What is oceanography?
What is the study of the ocean?
What does a chemical oceanographer study?
What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
What is Nitrogen?
What are the 4 main systems of the Earth?
What are the atmosphere, the biosphere, the lithosphere(geosphere), and the hydrosphere?
The variable that is changed or manipulated.
What is the independent variable?