The scientific method
What are the 2 types of variables involved in expierments?
What are independent and dependent variables?
What is the scienctif study of the earth and universe.
What is earth science
This sphere is made up of 4 main layers and spans from the surface of the earth to the
What is the atmosphere
A person who studies weather and is responsible for your 7 day forecast
What is a meterologist?
What are the 5 main branches of earth science
What is atronomy, meteorology, hydrology, geology, and ecology?
What do you do in the first step of the scientific method?
What is the study of earths atmosphere called?
What is meteorology?
This sphere is made up of all life on earth
What is the biosphere
What is a park ranger
what is a group of interacting parts?
what is a system
This step of the scientific method is when you make an educated guess on what is going to happen in the expeirment. What is this educated guess.
What is a hypothesis?
What is a theory?
This sphere is made up of many layers and parts of this sphere are responsible for creating the magnetosphere
What is the geosphere?
These people specialize in biology or biological studies. You better be a people person in this job or many people may not enjoy their stay in your care. These workers can make 40,000 - 70,000
What is a Nurse?
What is evidence summed up by related observations and expeirmental results to describe a pattern found in nature. This is also called a rule of nature.
What is scientific law?
In what step do you gather information for your question? (provide a numerical value)
What is step 2 of the scientific mehtod?
This refers to how close a measurement is to the true value of the actual measurement.
what is accuracy?
What percent of nitrogen is found in the atmosphere
What is 71%
These scientists study the earth's oceans. They use chemistry, biology, geology to study the earth's oceans. These scientists can make 35,000 - 75,000
This type of map shows the elevation of certain geographic features
What is a topographic map?
What is a line graph?
What is it called when scientist submit their findings and research to other scientist? This is generaly used to reduce bias.
What is peer review?
This sphere is the only sphere that occurs naturally in all three states of matter
What is the hydrosphere
These people use biology and philosophy to question whether or not you should get a transplant or what medication you get.
What is a bioethics/ what is a professional in bioethics.
Name at least three models used in earth science
What are phydical, graphical, conceptual, computer or mathmatical models?