Earth Space
What are the branches of Earth Science?
What is geology, oceanography, meteorology, and astronomy?
The first step in a scientific problem solving
What is observation?
What are compositional zones and structural zones?
Earth has this many magnetic poles
What is two?
Every object in the universe is affected by this force.
What is gravity?
The Earth scientist most likely to study volcanoes
What is a geologist?
This type of explanation has a large body of supported evidence from scientific investigation
What is a theory?
This area is above a part of the mantle and the crust is above it
What is the litosphere?
The wind in space is called?
What is solar wind?
The effects of gravity are in this law
What is the law of gravitation?
The study of ways in which humans interact with their environment.
What is environmental science?
How close a measurement is to the true value of the thing being measured
What is accuracy?
What is the mesosphere?
Earth's magnetic fields extends beyond these two places
What is the atmosphere and the magnetosphere?
What is the unit used to measure weight from the book.
What is Newtons?
What 3 early peoples/scientists started studying science
Who are the Chinese, Greeks and Mayans?
The process in which several experts on a given topic review another experts work on that topic before is it published.
What is a peer review?
The solid rock in the asthenosphere has the ability to do this because of plasticity.
What is flow/ability to flow?
This may be the source of Earth's magnetic field
What is liquid iron?
The 17th century scientist that first explained the the phenomenon of gravity
Who is Isaac Newton?