A life-giving gaseous envelope.

Self-contained with regard to matter.

The light and very thin outer skin of Earth.

The name for all the sciences that collectively seek to understand Earth and its neighbors in space. It includes geology, oceanography, meteorology, and astronomy.

Aims to study Earth as a system composed of numerous interacting parts, or subsystems.

Refers to everything that surrounds and influences an organism.

Means study of Earth. Divided into two areas- physical and historical.

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.

The rigid outer layer that includes the crust and uppermost mantle.

The area less dense than the core.

The study of the atmosphere and the processes that produce weather and climate.

Although often used synonymously with hypothesis, is a less precise term because it is sometimes used to describe a scientific theory as well.

Suggests that the bodies of oursolar system evolved from an enormous rotating cloud called the solar nebula, composed mostly of hydrogen and helium, with a small percentage of the heavier elements.

Negative Feedback Mechanism

Work to maintain the system as it is, or in other words to maintain the status quo.

Nonrenewable Resource

The processes that create them are so slow that significant deposits take millions of years to accumulate.

Involves the application of all sciences in a comprehensive and interrelated study of the oceans in all their aspects and relationships.

Both energy and matter flow into and out of the system.

Explain a large number of interrelated aspects of the natural world.

The factors in the environment.

Positive Feedback Mechanism

Mechanisms that enhance or drive change.

Resources that can be replenished over relatively short time spans.

Can be any size group of interacting parts that form a complex whole.

A well-tested and widely accepted view that the scientific community agrees best exlains certain observable facts.

Help

Options

focusNode

Didn't know it?
click below

Knew it?
click below

Don't Know

Remaining cards (0)

Know

retry

shuffle

restart

0:00

Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

Normal Size Small Size show me how

Introduction to ES

Rapp-vths-intro to es vocab

Question	Answer
Astronomy	The study of the universe.
Atmosphere	A life-giving gaseous envelope.
Biosphere	All life on Earth.
Closed System	Self-contained with regard to matter.
Core	A dense inner sphere.
Crust	The light and very thin outer skin of Earth.
Earth Science	The name for all the sciences that collectively seek to understand Earth and its neighbors in space. It includes geology, oceanography, meteorology, and astronomy.
Earth System Science	Aims to study Earth as a system composed of numerous interacting parts, or subsystems.
Environment	Refers to everything that surrounds and influences an organism.
Geology	Means study of Earth. Divided into two areas- physical and historical.
Hydrosphere	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.
Hypothesis	A tentative explanation.
Lithosphere	The rigid outer layer that includes the crust and uppermost mantle.
Mantle	The area less dense than the core.
Meteorology	The study of the atmosphere and the processes that produce weather and climate.
Model	Although often used synonymously with hypothesis, is a less precise term because it is sometimes used to describe a scientific theory as well.
Nebular Hypothesis	Suggests that the bodies of oursolar system evolved from an enormous rotating cloud called the solar nebula, composed mostly of hydrogen and helium, with a small percentage of the heavier elements.
Negative Feedback Mechanism	Work to maintain the system as it is, or in other words to maintain the status quo.
Nonrenewable Resource	The processes that create them are so slow that significant deposits take millions of years to accumulate.
Oceanography	Involves the application of all sciences in a comprehensive and interrelated study of the oceans in all their aspects and relationships.
Open System	Both energy and matter flow into and out of the system.
Paradigm	Explain a large number of interrelated aspects of the natural world.
Physical Environment	The factors in the environment.
Positive Feedback Mechanism	Mechanisms that enhance or drive change.
Renewable Resource	Resources that can be replenished over relatively short time spans.
System	Can be any size group of interacting parts that form a complex whole.
Theory	A well-tested and widely accepted view that the scientific community agrees best exlains certain observable facts.

Created by: CRRAPP

Popular Earth Science sets

Mr. Holzshu's review of the layers of the Earth, plates, and boundaries.

Plants

Local and Global Winds

Earth Science Vocabulary

structure of earth

Water Vocab

plate boundaries

"Know" box contains:
Time elapsed:
Retries: