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41 Cards in this Set
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earth science |
encompasses the study of all facets of the earths physical environment |
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earth science geology |
_____ encompasses the branches of science including : ______ |
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geology |
is the study of the earth |
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geology |
the scientific study of the origin, history, and structure of the earth |
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universe |
13.8 Gya (billion years ago) |
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universe matter or energy |
everything in the ____ is made up of either ____ or _____ |
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the universe 13.8 billion years |
____ is made up of countless such galaxies of various sizes and shapes, and was about ________ |
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mercury venus earth mars jupiter saturn uranus neptune |
the solar system |
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lithosphere atmosphere hydrosphere biosphere |
4 domains (structural spheres of earth) |
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the narrative from genesis |
describe how God separated light from darkness by means of divine power |
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bindu |
the whole universe expanded out of a single concentrated point |
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creationism theory |
the narrative from genesis the hindu text rigveda |
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geocentric theory |
aristotle and ptolemy believed that the earth is the center of the universe |
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aristotle and ptolemy |
they believed that the earth is the center of the universe |
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heliocentric theory |
Nicolaus Copernicus proposed that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun |
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Nicolaus Copernicus |
proposed that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun |
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galileo |
discovered evidence to support copernicus heliocentric theory when he made planet observatory |
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anaxagoras |
primordial universe which the original state of the cosmos was a primordial mixture of all ingredients |
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nous |
___ or mind. |
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leucippus and democritus |
atomic universe which it is composed of tiny, invisible, and indestructible atoms. |
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atoms |
a giant living body |
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albert einstein |
it was static, dynamically stanle universe which was "neither expanding not contracting" |
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isaac newton |
the universe as a static, steady-state infinite universe. |
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rene descartes |
the vacuum of space was not empty at all but was filled with matter that swirled around in large and small vortices |
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edwin hubble |
showed that the universe was not static. the red shift of galaxies was directly proportional to the distance of the galaxy from earth |
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big bang theory |
infinitely tiny and infinitely dense point around 14 gya |
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singularity |
there was only pure energy compressed in a single point |
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big bang theory |
there was only pure energy compressed in a single point called singularity |
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big bang theory |
the universe originated from a violent explosion which caused its inflation and continuous expansion |
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oscillating universe theory |
big crunch occurs when the universe expands and eventually reverses |
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oscillating universe theory |
"once the universe reverses and attains the point of singularity, another universe will be born" |
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steady state theory |
universe expands but did not change its density |
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james jeans in the 1920s fred hoyle, thomas gold, hermann bondi |
steady state theory was first proposed by ____ in the ___.it wa sformulated by _____,_____,____ |
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inflationary universe theory |
proposes a period extremely rapid |
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inflationary universe theory |
described how the universe was cooled by the expansion |
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multiverse theory |
suggests that our universe, with all its hundred of billions of galaxies |
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multiverse theory |
proposed by an american physict, hugh everett |
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hugh everett |
who proposed the multiverse theory |
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encounter hypothesis |
a rogue star passed closed close to the sun and stripped materials |
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nebular hypothesis |
it states that the entire solar system started as a large cloud of gas that contracted due to self gravity |
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protoplanet hypothesis |
large cloud begins to condense |
