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What Is Science?
Studying Earth
Exploring Earth's Surface
What Is Science II?
Topography
100
Using your senses to gather information.
What is observing?
100
A scientist who studies weather and climate.
What is meteorologist?
100
The prime meridian runs through this city.
What is the Greenwich, England?
100
Pose questions, hypothesis, design an experiment, collect data, draw conclusions, and communicate are all part of this process.
What is scientific inquiry?
100
The difference in elevation between the highest and the lowest parts of an area.
What is relief.
200
All steps in Scientific Inquiry lead back to this step.
What is Posing Questions?
200
Atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and __________.
What is lithosphere?
200
The imaginary line that circles the Earth half way between the poles.
What is the equator?
200
One of the factors that can change in an experiment.
What is variable?
200
These lines connect points of equal elevation.
What are contour lines?
300
A possible explanation for a set of observations or answer to a scientific question.
What is hypothesis?
300
A variable purposely changed to text a hypothesis.
What is a manipulated variable?
300
On a map, this relates distance on a map to a distance on the Earth's surface.
What is scale?
300
A variable that a scientist changes (another name for independent variable).
What is manipulated variable?
300
A large area of land where the topography is similar.
What is a landform?
400
What is the first step in scientific inquiry?
What is pose question?
400
A landform with high elevation and a level surface.
What is a plateau?
400
Longitude lines in EACH HEMISPHERE are numbered up to this many degrees.
What is 180 degrees?
400
A variable that changes because of the manipulated variable (another name for a dependent variable).
What is responding variable?
400
The elevation difference between one contour line and the next contour line.
What is a contour interval?
500
Pose questions, Form a hypothesis, design an experiment, collect and interpret data, draw conclusions, communicate.
What is Scientific Inquiry.
500
Three ways energy transfers on Earth.
What is moving objects, waves, and heat flow?
500
The difference in elevation between the highest and lowest parts of an area.
What is relief?
500
When you explain or interpret the things you observe.
What is inferring?
500
You want to climb up a mountain the easy way up. Looking at a topographic map, you would know where to climb if you this.
What is where the contour lines are spread far apart?