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Introduction to Eath
L.Wynne - VTHS - intro to es vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the study of the universe? | Astronomy |
| What is the name of the life-giving gaseous envelope the surrounds Earth? | The Atmosphere |
| What sphere includes all life on Earth? | The Bioshpere |
| What kind of system is self-contained with regard to matter? | A Closed System |
| What is the name of Earth's dense innersphere? | The Core |
| What is the name of Earth's light and very thin outer skin? | The Crust |
| What is the science that collectively study Earth and its neighbors in space? | Earth Science |
| What is it called when scientists aim to study Earth as a System composed of numerous interacting parts, or subsystems? | Earth System Science |
| What is the name of everything that surrounds and influences an organism? | The Environment |
| What science literally means "study of Earth"? | Geology |
| What is the Sphere that 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? | The Hydrosphere |
| What term refers to the rigid outer layer that includes the crust and uppermost mantle? | The Lithosphere |
| What is the less dense Sphere surrounding the core? | The Mantle |
| What is the study of the atmosphere and the processes that produce weather and climate? | Meteorology |
| What is the less precise term of hypothesis? | Model |
| What hypothesis Suggests that the bodies of our solar system evolved from an enormous rotating cloud called the solar nebula? | The Nebular Hypothesis |
| The phenomenon the works to stabilize our body temperature is reffered to as what? | A Negative Feedback Mechanism |
| Iron, aluminum, coal, natural gas, and oil are all what kind or resources? | Nonrenewable |
| What science involves the application of all sciences in a comprejensive and interrelated study of the oceans in all their aspects and relationships? | Oceanography |
| What kind of system is far mor compicated then a closed system? | A Open System |
| Theories that are extensivley documented are held with a very high degree of confidence. Theories of this degree are called what? | Paradigms |
| Water, air, soil, and rock are encompessed under what kind of enviernment? | The Physical Enviornment |
| Mechanisms that enhance or drive change are called what? | Positive Fedback Mechanisms |
| What kind of resource can be replenished over a relatively short period of time? | A Renewable Resource |
| What can be any size group of interacting parts that form a complex whole? | A System |
| What is a hypothesis that has survived extensive scruitiny and when competing models have been eliminated? | A Theory |
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