TOPIC 1
Introduction to Earth’s Changing Environment
1. OBSERVATION- _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. INSTRUMENTS ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. INFERENCE- ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. CLASSIFICATION ______________________________________________________________________________________________.
5. MEASUREMENT- _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
a. length- ___________________________________
b. Mass- ____________________________________
c. Volume ___________________________________________________________________________________
6. PERCENT DEVIATION OR PERCENTAGE ERROR
Is the amount being off from the actual.
(see ref. table)
p. 3, 1-9
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7. DENSITY-_______________________________________ a. Water is most dense at 4 deg. C.
b. Temperature and pressure Affect the density of objects. Higher temp_______________________________________________________________________________________
c. The density of _________________________________
Do sample Here:
p. 5, 10-18
8. What Change Is
a. A change occurs when the properties or __________________________________________________________________________________________________.
b. How much a measurable aspect ______________________________________________. (see reference table)
c. Cyclic changes happen ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
d. A prediction is a ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
e. Natural hazards is a non-human related object, process, or __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
· Asteroid impact
· _______________________
· Flood
· _______________________
· Tsunami
· ________________________
· Blizzard
f. Interface is the boundary between regions with different properties. Energy is_____________________
g. Dynamic equilibrium- i________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
p. 7, 19-28
9. Human Interactions
a. natural resources include ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
b. Pollution is when the concentration ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
d. Causes of pollution
· Pollen
· __________________________
· Radioactive decay
e. a pollutant can be a __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Group ques. P. 9 13, 1-38
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