Topic 2- Measuring Earth

Question 1

What are Earth’s spheres?

Answer 1

Geosphere (interior), Lithosphere, Hydrosphere, and Atmosphere

Question 2

What are pauses?

Answer 2

interfaces, or boundaries, of the layers of Earth’s atmosphere. Ex: Tropopause

Question 3

What is the atmosphere composed of?

Answer 3

Gases

Question 4

What is the hydrosphere composed of?

Answer 4

liquid water

Question 5

What is the lithosphere made of?

Answer 5

lithospheric plates

Question 6

What is the upper part of the lithosphere?

Answer 6

crust

Question 7

What is Earth’s interior?

Answer 7

the region extending from the rocky part of Earth’s surface to Earth’s center

Question 8

What directions do latitude include?

Answer 8

North and South of equator

Question 9

What directions do longitude include?

Answer 9

East or West of Prime Meridian

Question 10

What is a field?

Answer 10

any region of space or the environment that has some measurable value of a given quantity at every point

Question 11

What are isolines?

Answer 11

lines that connect points of equal field values

Question 12

What are isotherms?

Answer 12

lines that connect points of equal temperature

Question 13

What are isobars?

Answer 13

lines that connect points of equal air pressure

Question 14

What are contour lines?

Answer 14

lines that connect points of equal elevation

Question 15

What does it mean when contour lines are close together?

Answer 15

steeper slope, elevation is increasing

Question 16

What is a profile?

Answer 16

a side view of an area’s landscape

Question 17

What is a model?

Answer 17

way of representing the properties of an object or system