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Intro to ES
The Doctor (Bowties are cool) - vths - intro to es vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the name for the study of the universe? | astronomy |
| This is the live-giving gaseous envelope that surrounds the earth. | atmosphere |
| contains all life on earth. Concentrated mostly on the surface. | biosphere |
| Self contained with regard to matter. Energy moves freely in and out. No matter enters/leaves. | closed system |
| The molten center of the Earth. | core |
| The light, very thin outer layer of the Earth. It is not a uniform thickness. Least thick on the ocean floor. | crust |
| The name for all sciences that collectively seek to understand Earth and its neighbors in Space. | Earth science |
| Aims to study earth as a system composed of numerous interacting parts (land, water, air, life) | Earth system science |
| Everything that surrounds and organism. | environment |
| The study of the earth. | geology |
| A dynamic mass of liquid that is always on the move, evaporating from oceans to the atmosphere, raining to land, running back to the ocean. rinse and repeat. | hydrosphere |
| An untested explanation for something. | hypothesis |
| The rigid outer layer that includes the upper most mantle and the crust. | lithosphere |
| The middle of the earth. Not as dense as the core. | mantle |
| The study of the atmosphere and the processes that produce weather and climate and such. | meteorology |
| A term sometimes used to describe a scientific theory as well as a hypothesis. | model |
| Idea that the solar system evolved from a huge spinning cloud (solar nebula), which was mostly hydrogen and helium. After 5 billion years, the gases and particles gravitationally contracted, and rotated faster and faster, and later formed planets + sun. | nebular hypothesis |
| Work to keep the system as it is. | negative feedback mechanism |
| Resources that continue to form, but take such a long time to form that it takes millions of years for significant deposits to form. | nonrenewable resource |
| The study that involves the application of all sciences in a study of the oceans. | oceanography |
| Most natural systems are these. Both energy and matter flow in and out. | open system |
| A theory held with a high degree of confidence. They explain a large number of interrelated aspects of the natural world. | paradigm |
| Encompasses water, air, soil, rock, temperature, humidity, and sunlight. | physical environment |
| Mechanisms that enhance or drive change. | positive feedback mechanism |
| Resources that can be replenished over fairly short periods of time. | renewable resource |
| Any size group of interacting parts that form a complex whole. | system |
| A hypothesis that has survived extensive scrutiny and the survivor of the other models that have been eliminated. | theory |
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