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EARTH AND SPACE
CHAPTER 1
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Hydrosphere includes fresh water found in
streams, lakes, and glaciers, as well as that found
underground?
TRUE
List the four steps that scientific knowlede is
gained through following a systematic step?
1. Collecting facts
2. Developing a hypothesis
3. Conducting experiments
4. Reexamining the hypothesis and accepting,
modifying, or rejecting it.
The solar system evolved from an enormous
rotating cloud called the
Solar nebula
Larger outer planets began forming from
Fragments with a high percentage of ices
What is assumed to be a flat disk shape at the
center of the nebular hypothesis?
Pre-Sun
Inner planets begin to form from
Metallic and rocky clumps
As Earth formed the decay of radioactive
elements and heat from high-velocity impacts
caused the temperature to
Increase
_____________ and ______________ are lines on
the globe that are used to determine location?
Latitude and longitude
Drives internal processes including volcanoes,
earthquakes and mountain building?
Earth’s Interior
______________ cannot be replenished in
the near future examples metals and fuels?
Nonrenewable
What is nebular composed mostly of
Hydrogen and helium
How many years ago is the nebula predicted to
have accured?
5 billion
Hydrosphere is nearly _______% of Earth’s
surface?
71
____________ drives external processes such as
weather, ocean circulation and erosional
processes?
Sun
______________ can be replenished examples
plants, energy from water and wind?
Renewable
Open system are self contained?
FALSE
Physical enviornment encompasses water, air, soil,
and rock?
TRUE
Topographic maps show elevation, shortage,
and slope angles?
FALSE
Closed systems are both energy and matter to
flow in and out of the system?
FALSE
Plate tectonics is the theory that proposes
that Earth’s outer produced earthquakes,
volcanoes, mountains, and Earth’s crust itself?
TRUE