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What is the study of the universe? astronomy
The earth is surrounded by a life-giving gaseous envelope called what? atmosphere
What includes everything on earth? biosphere
What is a region that is isolated from its surroundings by a boundary that admits no transfer of matter or energy across it? closed system
What is the dense inner core of the earth called? core
What is the very thin outer skin of the earth called crust
What is the type of science that includes geology oceanography meteorology and astronomy? 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 means the study of the 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 an untested explanation for something? hypothesis
What refers to the rigid outer layer that includes the crust and upper most mantle? lithosphere
What is one of three regions of the earth that is the less dense part? mantle
What is the study of the atmosphere and the processes that produce weather and climate. meteorology
What is another word for hypothesis or is an untested explanation? model
What suggests that the bodies of our solar system evolved from an enormous rotating cloud? nebular hypothesis
What works to help remain a system as it is or in other words to maintain the status quo? negative feedback mechanism
What is a resource that can not be reused like iron, aluminum and copper? nonrenewable resource
What involves the application of all the science in a comprehensive and interrelated study of the oceans in all their aspects and relationships? oceanography
In what system do both energy and matter flow into and out of? open system
What explains a large number of interrelated aspects of the natural world> paradigm
What environment includes water air soil and rock as well as conditions such as temperature humidity and sunlight? physical environment
What is a mechanism that enhances or drives change? Positive feedback mechanism
What is a resource that 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 a possible explanation for a situation ? theory
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