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Introduction to E.S.

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What is the study of the universe? Astronomy
What is it called that Earth is surrounded by a life-giving gaseous envelope? Atmosphere
What includes all life on Earth? Biosphere
What is self-contained with regard to matter? Closed System
What is the dense inner sphere of the Earth called? Core
What is the light and very thin outer skin of Earth? Crust
What is the name for all the sciences that collectively seek to understand Earth and its neighbors in space? Earth Science
What aims to study Earth as a system composed of numerous interacting parts? Earth System Science
What refers to everything that surrounds and influences an organism? Environment
What word literally means "the study of Earth"? 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 constructing an untested (tentative) explanation? Hypothesis
What is the rigid outer layer that includes the crust and the uppermost mantle? Lithosphere
What is the less dense layer of the Earth? Mantle
What is the study of the atmosphere and the processes that produce weather and climate? Meteorology
What is the less precise term that is used synonymously with hypothesis but is also used to describe a scientific theory? Model
What suggests that the bodies of our solar system evolved from an enormous rotating cloud? Nebular Hypothesis
What is it called that works to maintain the system as it is? Negative Feedback Mechanism
Of what substances that Earth contains has fixed quantities? Nonrenewable Resource
What involves the application of all sciences in a comprehensive and interrelated study of oceans in all their aspects and relationships? Oceanography
What is it called when both energy and matter flow into and out of the system? Open System
What are theories that are extensively documented and are held with a very high degree of confidence? Paradigm
What encompasses water, air, soil, and rock as well as conditions such as temperature, humidity, and sunlight? Physical Environment
What are mechanisms that enhance or drive change? Positive Feedback Mechanism
What can be replenished over relatively short time spans? Renewable Resource
What can be any size group of interacting parts that form a complex whole? System
What is it when a hypothesis has survived extensive scrutiny and when competing mondels have been eliminated? Theory
Created by: H.Rubenacker
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