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definitions
Scientific Method
Maps
Facts
general information
100
The study of the atmosphere
What is meteorology?
100
The question for which a scientists is trying to find the answer
What is a problem?
100
These maps show the three dimensions of the Earth's surface
What is topographic?
100
The distance north and south of the equator
What is latitude?
100
I can't be used unless I am broken?
What is an egg?
200
The study of the composition of the movements of water, as well as the coastal processes, the sea floor, and marine life
What is oceanography?
200
The part of the experiment that remains the same
What is the control?
200
Used in topographical maps to show elevation of earth's surface
What are contour lines
200
The distance East and West of the Prime Meridian
What is longitude?
200
How many muscles does a cat have in his ear?
What is 32
300
The study of the universe
What is astronomy?
300
Another word for data that a scientist collects during an experiment
What is an observation
300
Tells the difference in elevation in adjacent lines
What is contour interval?
300
The altitude of Polaris, measured from the horizon, is equal ti
What is your latitude?
300
I have holes in my top, bottom, left, right, and my middle. What am I?
What is a sponge?
400
The study of the Earth
What is Geology?
400
When, after repeated testing, many scientists reach the same conclusion it is called
What is Scientific Law
400
On a contour map, contour lines that are closer together indicate
What is a steep slope
400
The theory that Earth's lithosphere is broken into large sections that move is called
What is plate tectonics?
400
What color is a grasshoppers blood?
What is white?
500
Name 3 of the branches of science we have discussed in this chapter
What is geology, astronomy, oceanography, meteorology
500
List the 6 steps of the scientific method
What is state the problem, form a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, make observations, state the conclusion, and repeat the experiment
500
What is the formula for gradient?
What is change in field value/change in distance
500
Explain the nebular hypothesis
What is the theory that the bodies of our solar system evolved from an enormous rotating cloud called the solar nebular
500
The world's largest ocean
What is the Pacific?