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Introduction to ES
schofield-vths-intro to es vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is astronomy? | Astronomy is the study of the universe. |
| What is the thin, tenuous and life-giving gaseous enevelope surrounding Earth called? | This is called the atmosphere. |
| What is the biosphere? | The biosphere is all the life on planet Earth. |
| Describe what a closed system is. | A system that is self-contained with regard to matter . |
| What is the core? | The core is the dense, most inner sphere located in the center of Earth. |
| What is the light and very thin outer skin of Earth? | It is the crust of the Earth. |
| What is Earth Science? | Earth science is all the sciences that collectively seek to understand Earth and its neighbors in space This includes geology, oceanography, meteorology, and astronomy. |
| Explain Earth System Science. | Earth System Science aims to study Earth as a system composed of numerous interacting parts, or subsystems. |
| What refers to everything that surrounds and influences an organism? | The environment. |
| What is geology? | Geology is the study of the Earth. |
| What is a hydrosphere? | A hydrosphere 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. |
| What is a tentative, or untested explanation? | A hypothesis. |
| Explain what the lithosphere is. | The lithosphere is the rigid outer layer of the Earth that includes the crust and upper-most mantle. |
| What is the mantle? | The mantle is the less dense layer. just outside of the core. |
| What is the study of the atmosphere and the processes that produce weather and climate? | It is meteorology. |
| What is a model? | A term also to describe a hypothesis, it also describes a scientific theory. |
| What is the nebular hypothesis? | The nebular hypothesis suggests that the bodies of our solar 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. |
| Describe the negative feedback mechanism. | They work maintain the system as it is or simply maintain the status quo. |
| What is a nonrenewable resource? | A resource that once used, takes millions of years to regenerate, like fossil fuels and coal. |
| Describe oceanography. | Oceanography involves the application of all sciences in a comprehensive and interrelated study of the oceans in all their aspects and relationships. |
| What is an open system? | In an open system, both energy and matter flow into and out of the system. |
| What is a theory that explains a large number of interrelated aspects of the natural world. | A paradigm. |
| What is the physical environment? | The physical environment encompasses water, air, soil, and rock as well as conditions such as temperature, humidity, and sunlight. |
| What is a positive feedback mechanism? | Mechanisms that enhance or drive change. |
| Describe what a renewable resource is. | A resource that can be replenished over a short period of time. |
| What is a system? | A system can be any size group of interacting parts that form a complex whole. |
| Define theory. | When a hypothesis has survived extensive scrutiny and when competing models have been eliminated, a hypothesis may be elevated to a theory. |
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