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Intro to ES
Fiona-VTHS-intro to es Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |