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What is Science?
Studying Earth
Exploring Earth
Topography
Lab Safety
100
A way of learning about the natural world through observations and logical reasoning.
What is science?
100
The ability to do work or cause change.
What is energy?
100
The shape of the land determined by elevation, relief, and landforms.
What is topography?
100
A map that shows the surface features of an area.
What is a topographic map?
100
This helps to keep you safe when doing science activities in the lab.
What is good preparation?
200
The process of using one or more of your senses to gather information.
What is observing?
200
The envelope of gasses that surround Earth.
What is atmosphere?
200
Height above sea level.
What is elevation?
200
A line on a topographic map that connects points of equal elevation.
What is a contour line?
200
This section in your textbook reviews general safety guidelines.
What is Appendix A?
300
The process of forecasting what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence.
What is inferring?
300
Earth's water and ice. One of four spheres into which scientists divide Earth.
What is hydrosphere?
300
The difference in elevation between the highest and lowest parts of an area.
What is relief?
300
The difference in elevation from one contour line to the next.
What is a contour interval?
300
The ________ alert you to possible dangers in performing the experiment and remind you to work carefully.
What are safety symbols?
400
The process of making an inference, an interpretation based on observations and prior knowledge.
What is predicting?
400
A rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust.
What is lithosphere?
400
A flat model of all or part of Earth's surface as seen from above.
What is a map?
400
On a topographic map, a heavier contour line that is labeled with elevation of that contour line in round units.
What is a index contour?
400
When you have completed the experiment, be sure to follow your teacher's instructions about ___________.
What is proper disposal of waste?
500
The ongoing process of discovery in science.
What is scientific inquiry?
500
All living things. One of the four spheres into which scientists divide Earth.
What is biosphere?
500
Used to compare distance on a map or globe to distance on earth's surface.
What is scale?
500
The distance between contour lines represents the ______ of the area.
What is slope?
500
When any accident occurs, no matter how minor, you must immediately notify this person.
What is the teacher?