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level: Defining Space

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level questions: Defining Space

Question	Answer
Branch of science concerned with identifying and describing the earth, utilizing spatial awareness to try and understand why things exist in specific locations	Geography
Is the mapping of spaces to allow better navigation, for visualization purposes and to act as a localization device	Cartography
Apply statistical concepts to collected spatial data in order to create an estimate for unobserved occurrences or phenomena	Geostatic
The science involved with the observation, explanation and measuring of objects in outer space	Astronomy
Used to measure the mass of a person	Bathroom Scale
Used to measure the mass of cooking ingredients	Kitchen Scale
Used to measure the mass of very small organisms or animals	Chemical Balance
Usually no longer than half a metre, marked in millimetres and centimetres	Ruler
Marked in millimetres, centimetres and metres	Tape Measure
Measures the internal diameter of a pipe or the external diameter of a bolt and is much more accurate than a tape measure or ruler	Vernier Calliper
Used to measure in millionths of a meter, called micrometers or microns and is found in microscopes and telescopes	Screw Micrometer
Used in the kitchen which measure the volume of liquid in millimeters	Measuring Cylinders
Used to measure temperature in degrees Celsius or in degrees Fahrenheit	Thermometer
Used to measure time in hours, minutes and seconds	Clocks
When two lines intersect at a point	Vertex
The circular span between the lines	Angle
Unit measuring the size of an angle	Degree
A full circle rotation	360°
Half circle	180°
Quarter circle	90°
A geometric figure consisting of three points or verticals which are connected with straight line segments called sides	Triangle
The number of squares needed to cover a given surface	Area
He ran a school where philosophy and religion were studied, in addition to astronomy, mathematics, and music	Pythagoras
The idea that all physical relationships could be expressed by mathematical relations	Core of Pythagoras’s teachings