Scientific Method
What is the second step of the scientific method?
Form a hypothesis
Remains or impressions of living things are called what?
Fossils
What is the difference between geocentric and heliocentric?
Earth-centered vs Sun-centered
The study of weather is called what?
Meteorology
What is another name for a hurricane?
Cyclone
What is a chart or diagram that organizes data called?
Graph
What is a high ridge that separates two river systems called?
Drainage Divide
Name the three parts of the sun in order.
Core, corona, photosphere.
The process that traps heat in the atmosphere is called what?
Greenhouse Effect
Hurricane winds are stronger than how many miles per hour?
74 mph
A worldview is a set of what?
Beliefs
What theory explains movement of Earth’s crustal plates?
Plate tectonics
Name the inner planets.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
What are the three main processes of the water cycle?
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation
The calm center of a hurricane is called the what?
Eye
Variables are parts of an experiment that are what?
Changed or tested
What idea says that present processes explain Earth’s features?
Uniformitarianism
The Big Bang is an evolutionary hypothesis about what?
The origin of the world.
Name the four forms of precipitation.
Rain, Sleet, Hail, Snow
Name three examples of the hydrosphere.
Oceans, rivers, lakes
Science is a careful study and observation of what?
The wonders of the universe.
Name the four types of mountains: domed, volcanic, fault block, and _______.
Folded
What causes Earth’s tides?
The moon’s gravitational pull
Wind moves into areas of what kind of pressure?
Low Pressure
Name the five layers of the atmosphere from top to bottom.
Exosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere, Troposphere