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Earth and Environmental Science: Textbook Chapters 1&2
Earth and Environmental Science: Textbook Chapters 1&2
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A #science quiz on #chapter1 and #chapter2 in the #textbook
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What is the Biosphere?
The water in the earths oceans, seas, rivers, lakes
All organisms on Earth.
Blanket of gases that surround our planet.
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What is Tectonics?
Earth's composition and the processes that change it.
Effects of internal processes on Earth's surface
Remains of organisms that once lived on Earth.
Patterns of weather over a long period of time.
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What is A Conic Projection.
A map that has parallel lines of latitude and longitude.
A detailed maps showing devation of hills and valleys.
A good long distance map good for plotting.
A map that has particular longitude and latitude lines.
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What is Ecology?
Earth's composition and the processes that change it
Effects of internal processes on Earth's surface
Remains of organisms that once lived on Earth.
How organisms interact with each other and their environment
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What is Cartography?
the science of location
the science of map making
the science of the world
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What is longitude?
the lines running parallel to the Prime meridian
the lines running north to south with the Equator.
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What is meteorology?
The study of the materials that make up Earth.
Study of the Earth's oceans.
The study of the air that surrounds our planet.
The study of objects beyond Earth's atmosphere.
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What is astronomy?
The study of objects beyond Earth's Atmosphere.
The study of Earth's oceans.
The study of the materials that make up Earth.
The studies the air that surrounds our planet.
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What is the atmosphere?
Blanket of gases that surround our planet.
The water in the earth's oceans, seas, rivers, lakes etc..
Rigid outer shell of the planet that contains the mantle.
All organisms on earth.
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How many time zones are in the US?
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What is Geochemistry?
How organisms interact with each other and their environment
Water flow on and below Earth's surface.
Remains of organisms that once lived on Earth
Earth's composition and the processes that change it.
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What is geology?
The study of the air that surrounds our planet.
The study of the Earth's oceans.
The study of the materials that make up Earth.
The study of objects beyond Earth's atmosphere.
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What is latitude?
the lines of running vertically up the earth
the lines running parallel to the equator
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What is Hydrology?
Water flow on and below Earth's surface.
Earth's composition and the processes that change it.
Patterns of weather over a long period of time.
Effects of internal processes on Earth's surface
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What is Climatology?
Remains of organisms that once lived on Earth.
How organisms interact with each other and their environment
Water flow on and below Earth's surface.
Patterns of weather over a long period of time
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What is Paleontology?
Effects of internal processes on Earth's surface.
Patterns of weather over a long period time.
Remains of organisms that once lived on Earth.
Water flow on and below Earth's surface.
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What are Mercator projections?
A map showing the deviation of hills and valleys.
A map that has parallel lines of longitude and latitude.
A map good for plotting long distance trips by air or sea.
map that has particular lines of longitude and latitude.
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What is the Lithosphere?
All living organisms on earth.
Rigid outer shell of the planet that contains the mantle.
The water in the earth's oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, etc.
Blanket of gases that surround our planet.
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What is the hydrosphere?
Blanket of gases that surround our planet.
The water in the Earth's oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, etc..
Rigid outer shell of the planet that contains the mantle.
All living organisms on Earth.
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What is oceanography?
Study of Earth's oceans.
The study of the air that surrounds our planet.
The study of the materials that make up Earth.
The study of objects beyond Earth's atmosphere.
