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earth and space
Study guide for unit one test
| Astronomer | a scientist who studies various stars, |
| Astronomy | the study of the universe beyond the earth |
| Geologist | A scientist who studies topics related to the structure and composition of the earth |
| Geology | The study of the structure of the earth, and the physical forces that continuously impact structure of the earth itself |
| Hydrosphere | The portion of the earth covered by the earth |
| Meteorologist | A scientist who studies the changes in the atmospheric conditions that produce different weather and climate patterns |
| Meteorology | The study of the earth's atmosphere and the process that produce weather and climate conditions |
| Oceanographer | A scientist who studies the ocean of the earth using scientific disciplines of biology, chemistry, physics, and geography |
| Oceanography | The study of the earth's ocean |
| Science | A collective human effort to comprehend, or better understand, the history of the natural world and how it works, through physical evidence collected via observations |
| Scientific hypothesis | A proposed explanation for a narrow set of phenomena |
| Scientific law | A description of an observed phenomenon that holds true every time it's tested under a given set of conditions |
| Scientific theory | A scientific explanation formulated based on known facts and repeated testing |
| Big Bang Theory | Suggests the origin of the universe started with an explosion and expansion of a very hot, dense, compact fireball |
| Cosmological principle | The universe look the same at any location, but can change overtime |
| Cosmologist | The study of the origin and structure of the universe |
| Cosmology | The study of the origin and structure of the universe |
| Galaxy | A large-scale collection of stars, dust, and gas held together by gravity |
| General relativity theory | Albert Einstein's theory that space and time are relative to matter |
| Inflation Theory | Theory that upholds the big bang theory, but suggests there was an extremely rapid expansion milliseconds after the big bang theory |
| Isotropic | Identical in all directions |
| Oscillating universe theory | Theory about the origin of the universe that suggests that the universe is a never-ending cycle of expansion and contraction |
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