2.7: Introduction to Earth Science- Challenge 1
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- 1. ___ are scientists who study outer space and the celestial bodies beyond Earth, often using telescopes, spacecrafts, and satellites.
- Astronomers
- 2. If meteorologists study weather patterns, who studies longer-term atmospheric phenomena like climate?
- Climatologists
- 3. ___ are scientists that study space and everything in it.
- Astronomers
- 4. Geologists say that the Grand Canyon has "layer cake geology" because ___.
- the rock strata are easy to see
- 5. Which mountain range is made by volcanoes that run California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia?
- Cascades
- 6. The Sierra Nevada Mountains run along the eastern part of the state of ___ and have a desert to their east. The state has the Pacific Ocean on its west coast.
- California
- 7. The principle of uniformitarianism states that processes operate ___.
- the same way at present as they did in the past
- 8. Cross-bedding on sand is due to ___.
- changes in wind direction
- 9. Hutton came up with the principle of ___, which is crucial to our ability to understand Earth's past.
- uniformitarianism
- 10. On the opposite side of the planet from the Prime Meridian is the ___.
- International Date Line
- 11. ___ devices use at least four satellites to identify the latitude, longitude, and elevation of something or someone.
- GPS
- 12. You would find 45°S in the ___ hemisphere.
- southern