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Earth System Science
Scientific Inquiry
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Science that deals with Earth and its neighbors in space.
What is Earth Science?
100
The major Earth sphere that contains the oceans and seas.
What is the hydrosphere?
100
The distance north or south of the equator, measured in degrees.
What is Latitude?
100
Any size group aof interacting parts that form a complex whole.
What is a system?
100
A possible explanation.
What is a hypothesis?
200
The "study of Earth".
What is geology?
200
The sphere which is made up of all the life forms on Earth.
What is the Biosphere?
200
The distance east or west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees.
What is Longitude?
200
One of the two sources that power the Earth's system/
What is the sun or Earths interior?
200
A well tested and widely accepted by the scientific community.
What is a theory?
300
The two broad areas geology is divided into
What is physical geology and historical geology?
300
The Earth's gaseous envelope/
What is the atmosphere?
300
In 1569 he created a map to help sailors navigate around earth.
Who is Gerardus Mercator?
300
A science that is usually used for things that focus on the relationships between people and the natural environment.
What is Environmental science?
300
The process of gathering facts through observations and formulating scientific hypotheses and theories.
What is the scientific method?
400
The study of the atmosphere and the processes that produce weather and climate.
What is Meteorology?
400
The three main parts of the the geosphere.
What is the core, the mantle, and the crust?
400
This map differs from other maps because they show elevation using contour intervals.
What are topographic maps?
400
Resources that can be replenished over relatively short time spans.
What are Renewable resources?
400
A statement that summarizes a pattern found in nature.
What is a scientific law?
500
Hypothesis suggests that the bodies of our solar system evolved from an enormous rotating cloud called the solar nebula.
What is the Nebular hypothesis?
500
One of the two types of forces affecting the Earth's surface.
What is destructive or constructive forces?
500
The theory that provided geologists with a model to explain how earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur and how continents move.
What is Plate Tectonics?
500
One of the significant threats to the environment.
What is air pollution, acid rain, ozone depletion or global warming?
500
The scientific notation form of 1,200,000,000
What is 1.2 x 10^9?