Name: ____________________________________________ Date: ___________ Period: _______
Chapter One Review
1. Population growth is shown on a _______________________________________.
2. A Mercator projection map shows _______________________________________________________.
3. Which of the following is an environmental hazard created by humans? _________________________
4. _________________________ is the amount of space an object takes up.
5. What are the three main parts of the geosphere? _____________________________________________
6. Resources that can be replenished over a relatively short time span are called ___________________________.
7. On the global grid, the prime meridian is at _______________________________________________.
8. A preliminary untested explanation that tries to explain how or why things happen in the manner observed is a scientific __________________________________.
9. Differences in elevation are best shown using a _____________________________________________.
10. How could two points 35 degrees north of the equator—one in North America and the other in China—be distinguished using map coordinates? ________________________________________________________
11. A scientific idea that is well tested and widely accepted by the scientific community is called a scientific ____.
12. What are the main areas (branches) of Earth science? ________________________________________
13. What are three examples of a renewable resources? ________________________________________________
14. List the parts of the sciencific method? __________________________________________________________
15. What map is used in making road maps and weather maps? ________________________________________
16. A _________________________________ is 99% correct but with lots of research it can still be proven wrong.
17. What are three examples of nonrenewable resources?_______________________________________________
18. List three environmental occurrences NOT caused by human interactions with the Earth system? ____________
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19. What is the study of the atmosphere and the processes that produce weather and climate? __________________
20. Earth’s four major spheres are the _____________________________________________________________.
21. Which of Earth’s spheres includes the oceans, groundwater, lakes, and glaciers? ___________________
22. List three examples of renewable resources? _______________________________________________
23. The area of Earth science that examines the physical and biological changes that have occurred in Earth’s past is called __________________________________________________________.
24. Which branch of Earth Science is the study of weather and climate? _________________________________
25. On a topographic map, contour lines that form a circle indicate a(n) _____________________________.
26. A scientific hypothesis can become a theory if _____________________________________________.
27. The _____________________________ divides the earth into the North and Southern Hemisphere.
28. The distance, measured in degrees, north and south of the equator is referred to as _______________________.
29. A map with a scale of 1:24,000 means that ________________________________________________
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30. Earth can be divided into four major spheres: the hydrosphere, the atmosphere, the ____________________, and the biosphere.
31. A(n) ____________________ map projection is a flat representation of Earth that shows directions accurately, but distorts sizes and distances.
32. ______________________________________-____ is how much matter is in an object.
33. The major difference between a topographic map and other maps is that a topographic map shows ____________________________________________-__________________.
34. The science of ____________________________ is traditionally divided into two parts: physical and historical.
35. Lines of ____________________ are used to measure distances east or west of the prime meridian in degrees.