Introduction to ES Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| 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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