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Intro to ES
Fiona-VTHS-intro to es Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Study of the Universe | Astronmy |
The envolope of gases that surronds Earth | Atmosphere |
Includes all life on Earth | Biosphere |
A system that mass doesn't flow in and out of | Closed System |
The centermost, densest part of Earth | Core |
The thinnest, outermost part of Earth | Crust |
The study of Earth and its many systems | Earth Science |
The study of Earth as a system | Earth System Science |
Everything that surrounds and influnces and orginism | Envionrment |
"Study of the Earth" | Geology |
The dynamic masss of liquid on earth including oceans, rivers, lakes groundwater, and glaciers | Hydrosphere |
An untested idea or explination | Hypothesis |
The rigid outermost layer of earth, consisting of the crust and upper-mantle | Lithosphere |
The layer of moltin rock between the the core aand crust | Mantle |
The study of the Atmosphere and the creation of climate and weather | Meterology |
A hypothesis | Model |
Suggests our planets evolved from Solar Nebula | Nebular Hypothesis |
A mechinism that maintain the system | Negitive Feedback Mechinism |
A rescource that takes a very ling time to form | Non-Renewable Resourse |
The study of the ocean, cosisting of a combination of sciences | Oceanography |
A system that matter and energy flows freely through | Open System |
A theory that can be applied to a large number of interlayed aspects of the natural world | Paradigm |
Parts of the enviornment such as air, water, rocks, and conditions(temp,humidity,ect) | Physical Enviornment |
A resource that can be replenished over a relitively short time | Renewable Resource |
Any group of parts that work as a complex whole | System |
A tested and widely accepted idea | Theory |
A mechinism that inhansis the system | Positive Feedback Mechinism |