Earth Science Test 1 Vocabulary

5. The way things really are, the whole of reality.
8. The wise and prudent management of the things entrusted to us.
10. A testable, informed prediction, based on a theory, of what will happen under certain circumstances.
11. The collection of all organisms that live on Earth along with the environments in which they live.
12. The rigid outer layer of Earth, composed mostly of solid rock.
14. The study of the atmosphere.
15. The layer of gasses that surround a planet such as Earth.
17. A statement that is supported by evidence and that is correct so far as we know.
18. The study of the materials that make up Earth and the processes that change Earth over time.

1. The part of Earth composed of water, including oceans, lakes, rivers and groundwater.
2. A natural resource that is not replaced when it is removed from nature for human use.
3. The study of the oceans.
4. The best model or explanation we have at present for a body of facts.
6. A natural resource that can be replaced as it is used.
7. science that tests hypotheses by conducting planned, repeatable, well-controlled experiments.
9. Natural _____, any material or substance provided by Earth that human beings can use.
13. a scientific investigation about events that happened in the past. These events can be modeled but cannot be repeated.
16. the ability of processes in a scale model to work in the same way as processes do in nature.