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introduction to es
Kayhart-vths-intro to es vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is astronomy? | Astronomy is the study of the universe. |
| Earth is surrounded by a life giving gaseous envelope called what? | The atmosphere. |
| What includes all life on Earth? | The Biosphere |
| What is the core? | A dense inner sphere on the earth. It is also one of the three principle regions. |
| What is a Closed System? | A system that is self-contained with regard to matter where energy moves freely in and out, but no matter enters or leaves. |
| What is the light and very thin outer layer of the earth? | the Crust. |
| Earth Science is. | The name for all the sciences that collectively seek to understand Earth and its neighbors in space. |
| What is Earth System Science? | Studies Earth as a system composed of numerous interacting parts or subsystems. |
| Everything that surrounds and influences an organism is called what? | The Environment. |
| What is geology? | Geology literally means study of the earth. |
| What is the hydrosphere? | It is a dynamic mass of liquid that is continually on the move; evaporating from the ocean to the atmosphere precipitating to the land and running back to the ocean again. |
| What is the lithosphere? | The rigid outer layer that includes the crust and upper most mantle. |
| What is the mantle? | Less dense than the core. |
| Meteorology is the | study of the earths atmosphere and the process that produce weather and climate. |
| What is model? | Model is often used synonymously with hypothesis, is a less precise term because it is sometimes used used to describe scientific theory. |
| Suggest that the bodies of our solar system evolved from an enormous rotating cloud called solar nebula. | What is nebula Hypothesis. |
| What is a negative feedback mechanism? | maintains the system as it is. |
| What is a hypothesis? | A tentative explanation of how or why things happen. |
| Resources that can not be replenished over a short time span is a... | Nonrenewable resource. |
| Oceanography is... | It involves the application of all sciences in comprehensive and interrelated study of the oceans in all their aspects and relationships. |
| What is an open system? | Both energy and matter flow in and out of a system. |
| Theories that are extensively documented are held with a very high degree of confidence and they explain a large number of interrelated aspects of the natural world are called what? | Paradigms. |
| What is the physical environment? | the external surroundings and conditions in which something exists. |
| What is a positive feedback mechanism? | Works to enhance or drives to change a system. |
| What is a Renewable resource? | a resource that can be replenished over a relatively short time span. |
| Any sized group of interacting parts that from a complex whole is what? | A system. |
| A well tested and widely accepted view that the scientific community agrees best explains certain observable facts is what? | A theory. |
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