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1 Copyright Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, GUIDE for CONTENT Master yChapter 1 Earth Science: Geology, the Environment, and the ScienceIn your textbook, read about the scope of Earth the terms below to identify of the major area ofEarth science that studies eachsubject. Each term can be used more than and chemical properties of the oceans beyond Earth s atmosphere that make up Earth and processes that produce weather s neighbors, distant stars, and other cosmic bodies , glacial movements, and clues to Earth s history that inhabit salty water of air that surrounds Earth Circle the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the subspecialty of Earth science studies patterns of weather over a long period of time? is the STUDY of which of the following? of of internal processes on Earth s flow on and below Earth s the moon and stars affect people s subspecialty of Earth science studies ancient environments?

2 Of the following might an ecologist STUDY ? and mountain remains of organisms that once lived on kinds of matter in the organisms interact with each other and their what field do scientists STUDY the processes that change Earth s composition? Nature of ScienceNameClassDateSTUDY GUIDE FOR CONTENT MASTERYCHAPTER1 Copyright Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, of ScientistsIn your textbook, read about the nature of scientific each item in Column A, write the letter of the matching item in Column AColumn explanation for an observation procedure that involves makingmeasurements and observations in an experiment that can be manipulatedby the experimenter in an experiment that can change if otherfactors are changed that does not change during an experiment for comparison that shows that the resultsof an experiment are actually due to the conditionbeing tested Use each of the terms below just once to complete the extinguisher laboratory glassware loose clothing safety goggles spillWear (7)and a safety apron during any activity or experiment ina science lab.

3 Tie back long hair and (8)before you begin anyinvestigation. Never use (9)as food or drink containers. Knowthe location and proper use of the (10), safety shower, fire blanket, first aid kit, and fire alarm. Report any (11), accident,or injury to your teacher extinguisherglasswareloose clothingsafety GUIDE for CONTENT Master yChapter 1 Earth Science: Geology, the Environment, and the Universe3 STUDY GUIDE FOR CONTENT MASTERYCHAPTER1laboratoryCopyright Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, of Scientists, continuedIn your textbook, read about measurement and scientific the table by matching each SI unit with its measurements will have more than one centimeter cubic centimeter cubic meter gram per cubic centimetergram per millimeterKelvin kilogram kilometer litermetermilliliter millimeternewton second square centimeter square meter4 Chapter 1 Earth Science.

4 Geology, the Environment, and the UniverseStudy GUIDE for CONTENT Master ySTUDY GUIDE FOR CONTENT MASTERYCHAPTER1 Express each number in scientific 000 000 25 Convert each number expressed in scientific notation to a number with no 000 099 9999 000 31021 310221 , kilometer, meter, centimeter, square centimeter, cubic meter, liter, per cubic centimeter, gram per , KelvinCopyright Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, in ScienceIn your textbook, read about communicating the following three reasons why communicating scientific data is important to scientific data allows others to learn of new discoveries, to possibly verify what has been reported, and to conduct new experiments using the two uses for the lab reports you write after doing an activity or can be used by the teacher to assess understanding of the activity or experiment or can be compared with the results of other table below shows the results of an experiment.

5 Use the data in the table to answerthe following GUIDE for CONTENT Master yChapter 1 Earth Science: Geology, the Environment, and the Universe5 STUDY GUIDE FOR CONTENT MASTERYCHAPTER1 Time (s)1020304050607080 Mass of product (g) the grid below, plot the mass of product versus time. Connect the data points with a is the independent variable in this experiment? is the dependent variable in this experiment?mass of the relationship between the dependent and independent variables in this mass of product increases with of Product vs. Time141312111098765432100102030405060708 090 Time (s)Mass of product (g)