What is Science?
Studying Earth
Exploring Earth's Surface
Topographic Maps
Safety in the Laboratory
100
Skills that scientists use with their experiments
What is - observing, inferring, and predicting
100
What is the layer that we are breathing?
What is - the atmosphere.
100
What is the shape of the land?
What is - topography.
100
What is a topographic map?
What is - shows shape of the land
200
List the steps of the scientific process.
What is - gather data, form hypothesis, design experiment, collect data, draw conclusions, communicate
200
What is the layer that is the hard land?
What is - lithosphere.
200
What is the distance from sea level called?
What is - elevation.
200
What is a contour line?
What is - shows elevation.
200
What do you do if you get a cut?
What is - tell your teacher.
300
What is the difference between a responding variable and controlled variable?
What is - the responding variable responds to the changing conditions in the experiment
300
Define the biosphere.
What is - all living things.
300
What are the 3 land formations?
What is - plateaus, mountains, plains
300
How do you show a depression in the earth's surface?
What is - lines that face the center of the contour sign.
300
What is you break a glass container?
What is - tell you teacher for proper removal?
400
What is a scientific theory?
What is - an experiment that continues to be proved over and over again, turns into a scientific law
400
Explain how all the spheres relate to one another.
What is - interactions can all be affected. (wind, water, land, trees)
400
Describe the difference between longitude and latitude.
What is - latitude measures degrees north and south, longitude measures ease and west.
400
What does it mean when contour lines are close together?
What is - steep hill
400
What can you wear to protect you hands and eyes?
What is - goggles and gloves
500
What is the difference between doing an experiment in the lab or out in the field?
What is - the field would lend for different conditions and supplies, and weather factors.
500
What is an example of energy transfer?
What is - wave, heat transfer
500
What is the prime meridian?
What is - line that separates the east and west hemispheres.
500
How would contour lines look on a rolling hill?
What is - further apart.
500
How much preparation should be done to successfully do a lab?
What is - at least a day.