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Introduction to ES
Barany-vths-intro to es vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the study of the universe and is useful in probing the origions of our own environment? | astronomy |
| What is the life-giving gaseous envolope that surrounds the Earth? | atmosphere |
| What includes all life on Earth? | biospere |
| What type of system allows energy to move freely in and out but does not allow matter to enter or leave the system? | closed system |
| What is the dense spere in the center of the Earth? | core |
| What is the light and very thin outer skin of the Earth? | crust |
| What is the name for all sciences that collectively seek to understand Earth and its neighbors in space; which includes geology, oceanography, meteorology, and astronomy? | Earth science |
| What system allows scientists to study the Earth as a system of numerous interacting parts or subsystems? | Earth system science |
| What refers to everything that surrounds and influences an organism? | environment |
| What is a section of Earth science that means "the study of Earth" and is broken up into two groups-physical and historical? | geology |
| What is a dynamic mass of liquid that is continually on the move, evaporating from the oceans to the atmosphere, precipitating to the land, and running back to the ocean again? | hydrosphere |
| What is an untested explanation that helps scientists? | hypothesis |
| What term refers to the rigid outer layer that includes the crust and uppermost mantle? | lithosphere |
| What is the less dense, middle layer of the Earth? | mantle |
| What section of Earth science deals with the study of the atmosphere and the processes that produce weather and climate? | meteorology |
| What is a less precise term than hypothesis but relatively has the same meaning? | model |
| What suggests that the bodies of our solar system evolved from an enormous rotating cloud called the solar nebula, composed mostly of hydrogen and helium, with a small percentage of the heavier elements? | nebular hypothesis |
| What works to maintain a system as it is, or in other words maintain the status quo? | negative feedback mechanism |
| What are elements that cannot be replenished? | nonrenewable resources |
| What section of Earth science involves the oceans in all their aspects and relationships? | oceanography |
| What kind of system allows both energy and matter to flow in and out of the system? | open system |
| What are theories that explain a large number of interrelated aspects of the natural world? | paradigm |
| What encompasses all factors and conditions of an environment? | physical environment |
| What is a mechanism that enhances or drives change? | positive feedback mechanism |
| What are elements that can be replenished over a relatively short time span? | renewable resource |
| What can be any size group of interacting parts that form a complex whole? | system |
| What can a hypothesis turn into when it has survived extensive scrutiny and when competing models have been eliminated? | theory |
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