Geology Module 1 - Earth Science

What is the name for all the water on the Earth including the water in the air?

What is NOT an example of things that astronomers study.

What are the two main gases that make up 99% of the Earth’s air

What is the name for the study of the interactions of humans with the environment?

How much of Earth’s water is salt water versus how much is fresh water

What are the four main Earth systems

Geology Rocks!!!!

What is the name for the study of the atmosphere, which is the air surrounding Earth?

Technology is using scientific discoveries and knowledge to help do something.

Technology typically does NOT make life easier and safer.

What is the name for the study of Earth’s oceans?

What is NOT part of the 5 major areas of Earth science

What is the name for the group of sciences that study the Earth, its systems, and its place in the universe?

Technology is transferable to new situations.

What is a scientific law?

What is NOT an example of things that oceanographers study.

The goal of science to understand and explain the natural world.

What is a theory?

What is the name for all of Earth’s organisms (living things) and the environments in which they live?

Which of the following is NOT a scientific quality

What is NOT an example of things that meteorologists study?

What is NOT an example of things that geologists study

What is a hypothesis?

What is the name for the study of objects beyond Earth’s atmosphere

What assumes the natural world is consistent and predictable?

What is the name for the part of Earth from its surface to its center?

What is the name for the blanket of gases surrounding Earth?

Theories do not become laws, theories explain laws.​

What name do we sometimes give for all the “permanently” frozen water on Earth?

What is NOT an example of things that environmental scientists study.