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Chapter 1 Guiding Questions – Earth Science

Big Ideas:

❖ Earth Science involves the study of Earth and its neighbors in the solar system.

❖ Earth science is very interdisciplinary, involving aspects of geology, chemistry, physics, and biology.

1. List and briefly describe the four branches of Earth Science

a.

b.

c.

d.

2. TRUE or FALSE? The Nebular Hypothesis suggests that the bodies of our solar system evolved from an enormous rotating cloud called the solar nebula.

3. List the four major spheres of Earth.

4. TRUE or FALSE? The geosphere is divided into the core, mantle and crust.

5. The theory of provided geologists with a model to explain how and occur and how continents move.

6. Which force wears away the Earth’s surface? Build up?

7. What kind of map shows elevation using contour lines?

8. What kind of map shows the type and age of exposed rocks?

9. What is a system?

10. What are the energy sources for Earth systems?

a.

b.

11. What is the environment?

12. Contrast renewable and nonrenewable resources.

13. List the four steps of a scientific investigation:

a.

b.

c.

d.

14. When does a hypothesis become a theory?

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