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Goldilocks Planet - Answer-A planet that has the right combination of conditions necessary for sustaining life. Habitable - Answer-Suitable or capable of sustaining life. Habitable Zone - Answer-The region around a star in which planets could potentially have surface temperatures at which liq...

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Introduction to Earth Systems Science
Exam Questions and Answers
Goldilocks Planet - Answer-A planet that has the right combination of conditions
necessary for sustaining life.

Habitable - Answer-Suitable or capable of sustaining life.

Habitable Zone - Answer-The region around a star in which planets could potentially
have surface temperatures at which liquid water could exist and could have conditions
favorable for life.

Atmosphere - Answer-The blanket of gases that surround the Earth and some other
planets and moons. A mixture of gas molecules, microscopically small particles of solid
and liquid, and falling precipitation.

Lithosphere - Answer-Earth's solid outer layer made up of the crust and rigid part of the
upper mantle

Biosphere - Answer-All of life on earth; including plants, animals, and microscopic life.

Hydrosphere - Answer-All the water of the planet that is in the ocean, on the land, and
in the atmosphere.

Geosphere - Answer-The mostly solid part of the earth; extends from the center of the
core to the surface of the crust.

Earth System's Science (ESS) Analysis - Answer-A scientific study are analysis that
examines the cause and effect relationships that occur or may occur between an event
and each of the earth's spheres (lithosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere).

Earth Systems Science - Answer-The study of earth as a complex systems of
interacting components. A view of Earth as complete entity, an interacting set of
physical, chemical, & biological systems that make up the entire Earth.

System - Answer-A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements or
parts that function together as a whole to perform a purpose or function.

Gravity - Answer-A universal attractive force between any two objects that depends on
the masses of the objects and the distance between them.

Hypothesis - Answer-A proposed explanation for a set of observations or answer to a
scientific question. Often described as an "educated guess" ;Must be testable.

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