Scientific Method
What is the Scientific Method?
A series of steps followed to solve problems
A representation of the features of a physical body such as Earth
Map
What does a geologist study?
This is 67% of Earth's mass and 2900 km thick
Mantle
What is Continental Drift?
The hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations.
What is the first step in the Scientific Method?
Ask a question
What are cardinal directions?
They are the North, South, West and East
Oceanography
What is the crust made mainly of?
Oxygen, silicon, aluminum
The process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises toward the surface and solidifies
Sea-floor spreading
An explanation that is based on prior scientific research or observations and that can be tested
Hypothesis
Latitude
This is what Mark Ronchetti does?
Meterology
What are the two types of crust?
Continental and oceanic
What was the one large landmass called?
Pangaea
What is a controlled experiment?
Is a circle halfway between North and South Poles that divides the Earth into half
Equator
The study of the universe?
Astronomy
The central part of the Earth below the mantle
core
What were the names of the landmass after it split the first time?
Laurasia and Gondwana
Who do you communicate results too?
Other scientists
The distance east and west from the Prime Meridian; expressed in degrees
What are the 5 special branches of Earth Science
Environmental Science, Ecology, Geochemistry, geography and cartography
This is what the tectonic plates move on.
The Asthenosphere
What are the 3 kinds of tectonic boundaries?
Continental-continental, continental-oceanic, and oceanic-oceanic