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What word means "the study of the Earth"?
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What is astronomy? The study of the universe.
What word means "the study of the Earth"? Geology
What study of science involves the study of oceans in all their aspects and relationships? Oceanography
What is Earth Science? The name for the study of all sciences including, geology, oceanography, meteorology, and astronomy.
Suggests that the bodies of our solar system evolved from an enormous rotating cloud called the solar nebula? Nebular Hypothesis
What is the study of the atmosphere and the processes that produce weather and climate? Meteorology
What surrounds the Earth in a life-giving gaseous envelope? Atmosphere
What 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? Hydrosphere
What includes all life on Earth? Biosphere
What is the core? The dense inner sphere in the Earth
What is the light and very thin outer skin of Earth? The Crust
What is the middle, less dense surface of Earth? The Mantle
What is the rigid outer layer that includes the crust and upper most mantle? The lithosphere
What endeavor explains that Earth has individual components that are interconnected. Earth Science System
What type of system are self-contained with regard to matter? A Closed System
What do negative feedback mechanisms do? Work to maintain the system as it is or maintain the status quo
In what type of system does both energy and matter flow into and out of the system? An Open System
What mechanisms enhance or drive change? Positive feedback mechanisms
What is a system? Any size group of interacting parts that form a complex whole.
What is the environment? Everything that surrounds and influences an organism.
What type of resources form slowly and take millions of years to form? Nonrenewable resources
What encompasses air, soil, and rock, as well as conditions? Physical Environment
What are resources that can be replenished in a relatively short time spans? Renewable resources
What is an untested explanation for something after facts are gathered? A hypothesis.
What is a model? A synonym to hypothesis but less precise because it is used for scientific theory as well.
What are paradigms? A paradigm is an explanation to a large number of interrelated aspects of the natural world.
What is a hypothesis that is elevated after survived scrutiny and competing models are eliminated called? A Theory
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