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Intro, Earth Sciene

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What type of science is the study of the universe? Astronomy
What type of science is the study of the Earth? Geology
What the name for all the sciences that collectivly seek to understand Earth and its nieghbors? Earth Science
What type of science is the study of the atmoshpere and the processes that produce weather and climate? Meterology
What science involves the application of all sciences in a compprehensive and interrelated study of oceans? Oceanography
What hypothesis suggests that the bodies of our solar system evolved from an enormous rotating cloud? Nebular Hypothesis
What is a dynamic mass of liquid that is continially on the move, evaportaing from the oceans to the atmosphere, precipitating one the land, and back to the ocean? Hydrosphere
What is a life-giving gasous envelope that surrounds the Earth? Atmosphere
What includes all life on Earth? Biosphere
What part of the Earth is a dense innner sphere? Core
What part of the Earth is less dense than the core? Mantle
What part of the Earth is light and very thin outer layer? Crust
What term refers to the rigid outer layer that includes the crust, and upper most mantle? Lithosphere
What aims to study Earth as a system composed of numerous interacting parts, or subsystems? Earth system Science
What can be any size group of interacting parts that form a complex whole? System
What do you call a system that is self-containted with regaurd to matter? Closed System
What is a natural system that both energy and matter flow in and out of? Open system
What kind of mechanism works to maintain the system as or at status qou? Negitive feedback mechanism
What kind of mechanism drives or enhances change? Positive feedback mechanism
What refers to everything that surrounds and influences an organism? Enviorment
What enviorment has nfluences that are logical,and social or nonliving? Physical Enviorment
What kind of resources can be replenished over short periods of time? Renewable Resources
What kind of resources can be not be recycled, or used over again? Nonrenewable Resources
What is a untested explantion for a scientific experiment? Hypothesis
What is a word used instead of hypothesis that is a less persice word and it sometimes is used to describe scientific theory? Model
What scientific term means a well-tested and widely accepted veiw that the scientific community agress best explains the observed facts? Theory
What is a type of theory that is well documented and held at a high degree of confidence? Paradigms
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