Introduction Flashcards
How does el nino and la nina work?
la nina: cooler water causes drought in the south and precipitation in the north
el nino: warm water on the coast of south america causes precipitation in the south and drought in the north
How do the different soil types in Minnesota prove that the earth was covered in oceans?
Soil deposits contain marine sediments
Oceanography definition
the story of the ocean; a science that deals with the oceans and included the delimitation of their extent and depth, they physics and chemistry of their waters, marine biology, and the exploitation of their resources
What is an ocean?
vast body of saline water that occupies the depression of the earths surface
Theory definition
Hypotheses that is consistently supported by observation, experiment or historical explanation
Explanation for observations
Science definition
a systematic process of asking questions about the observable world by gathering and then studying information (data)
interprets raw information
Law definition
principles explaining events in nature that have been observed to occur with unvarying uniformity under the same conditions
same amount of weight as a theory
an observation
