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Scientific Inquiry
Studying Earth
Earth's Surface
Topographic Maps
Vocabulary Review
100
A well tested explanation for a wide range of observations.
What is scientific theory?
100
The ability to do work or cause change.
What is energy?
100
Plateaus, plains and mountains.
What are landforms?
100
The difference in elevation between the highest and lowest parts of an area.
What is relief?
100
A possible explanation for a set of observations or answer to a scientific question that is testable.
What is a hypothesis?
200
A summary or decision based upon what you have learned from a scientific experiment that interprets data.
2. What is a conclusion?
200
The solid, rocky outer layer of the Earth.
What is the lithosphere?
200
A landform that has a high elevation and a flat, level surface.
What is a plateau?
200
A tool used to show elevation, relief and slope.
What is a topographic map?
200
A factor in an experiment that a scientist can change to test a hypothesis.
What is a manipulated variable?
300
When you explain or interpret the things you observe.
What is inferring?
300
The transferring of energy that leaves matter behind.
What are waves?
300
A long connected chain form of mountains that contains mountains ranges within.
What is a mountain belt?
300
Lines that show elevation, relief and slope on a map.
What are contour lines?
300
An interpretation based on your experience.
What is inference?
400
A useful took that helps scientists view and interpret data while also revealing patterns.
What is a graph?
400
Scientists who study the cause and effects of people's activities on the Earth.
What are environmental scientists?
400
The distance in degrees east or west of the prime meridian.
What is longitude?
400
The change in elevation from contour line to contour line.
What is the contour interval?
400
Thermal energy transferred from one object to another as a result of the difference in temperature.
What is heat flow?
500
An organized way to write down and display scientific observations.
What is a data table?
500
Anything in the Universe that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
500
A landform with a high elevation and high relief.
What are mountains?
500
Every 5th line on a topographical map that is labeled with the elevation.
What is an index contour?
500
The distance in degrees measuring north or south of the equator.
What is latitude?