Intro - 1) The scientific method is important in Earth Science as in all of scie
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Intro - 1) The scientific method is important in Earth Science as in all of science.
A) What is a scientific theory?
B) What is a scientific hypothesis?
C) What is a scientific law?
D) Give an example of something that is a scientific theory, something that is a scientific law, and something that is a scientific hypothesis.
E) What is difference between how theory is used in everyday life and how theory is used in science?
Intro - 2) Bloom's taxonomy classifies different levels of thinking.
A) What are the 6 levels of Blooms taxonomy in order from the simplest to the most complex?
B) Which is the simplest one? Give an example of the simplest one.
C) Which is the deepest one? Give an example of the deepest one.
D) Why must some knowledge, the lowest level of thinking, be learned in a class like this?
E) Why is it important to use higher orders of thinking?
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Chapter 1 - 1) The formation of the solar system and the Earth is a important occurrence (at least to us).
A) Describe the present best explanation of how the solar system formed.
B) What is that process called?
C) Why are the inner planets rocky and the outer planets gaseous?
D) Was the atmosphere and ocean of the Earth present in the very early Earth? If so, describe it and if not, why not?
E) Where did the materials for the atmosphere and ocean of Earth come from? Briefly describe the process.
Chapter 1 - 2) The beginnings of life is one of the important events on Earth.
A) What is the process that forms life from organic compounds?
B) About when did life begin on Earth?
C) Discuss why it is believed that life began in the ocean.
D) Name and briefly describe 3 locations in the oceans in which life may have begun. Which of these do you think is more likely? Why?
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Chapter 2 - 1) Technological advances have played a significant role in the advance of our understanding of the oceans. For each of the technological advances, explain what effect they had on the advancement of ocean sciences.
A) compass,
B) seagoing clock (chronometer),
C) echo sounder,
D) deep drilling ship,
E) deep diving sub (unmanned and manned).
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Chapter 3 - 1) Using seismic properties scientists have discovered 4 basic layers of the Earth.
A) What are the four layers using seismic properties?
B) What is the basic make up of each of the four layers?
C) How were the three boundaries initially discovered?
D) How did the discovery of plate tectonics change the layout of these layers?
Chapter 3 - 2) There are 3 basic types of plate boundaries.
A) What are the three basic types of plate boundaries?
B) Given an example for each of the three basic types of plate boundaries.
C) What happens to the plate material at each of the three basic types of plate boundaries?
D) Continental drift and plate tectonics are both descriptions of the movement of continents on the Earth
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