INTRO 1
It is the study of the natural world. It is limited to explanations and interpretations in terms of natural processes and causes.
What is science?
This is a succinct statement of a natural phenomenon that has been proven to be true under certain conditions. It is often expressed as a formula.
What is a Law?
This is the study of the atmosphere, including the weather and climate change.
What is meteorology?
The two broad categories of natural resources.
What are renewable and non-renewable resources?
How a mineral resource can become an ore.
What is ....
1. The demand for the mineral increases, raising its value.
2. The cost to extract the mineral deposit decreases making it cheaper to mine.
The method in science in which data is collected to prove or disprove a hypothesis.
What is the scientific method?
The seven steps of the scientific method in proper order.
What are Purpose, Research, Hypothesis, Experiment, Observation and Data, Analysis, and Conclusion?
The Earth System is driven by these two sources of energy.
What are the Sun and the Earth's interior?
The mineral resource of aluminum.
What is bauxite?
The length of time humans have lived on Earth if you consider the entire Earth's history to cover a 24-hour period.
What are "the last few seconds?"
Science assumes that the natural world has these two characteristics.
What are consistent and predictable? This means that a hypothesis, to be acceptable, must be testable (and reproducible by others).
This includes geology, oceanography, meteorology, and astronomy.
What is Earth Science?
A type of system in which both energy and matter are exchanged. That is, they flow into and out of the system.
What is an open system?
Another source of minerals should we deplete the Earth of its minerals.
What are asteroids? (NOTE: no doubt, the moon will also become a mining source.)
Two cycles we will study through which matter is recycled over and over again.
What are the rock cycle and the hydrologic cycle?
This is a well-proven and confirmed hypothesis and is widely accepted by the scientific community.
What is a theory?
A group of interacting or independent parts that form a complex whole.
What is a system?
This is the study of the oceans.
What is oceanography?
A mineral resource that can be extracted economically.
What is an ore?
These are types of renewable resources.
What are solar energy, biomass energy, wind energy, and tidal energy?
This is a tentative or untested idea.
What is a hypothesis?
This is the study of the (solid) Earth.
What is geology?
The study of the Earth as a system composed of these interacting parts: hydrosphere, atmosphere, geosphere, and biosphere.
What is Earth System Science?
The science of the interaction between people and nature.
What is Environmental Science?
Types of non-renewable resources.
What are coal, oil, natural gas, and nature-made minerals (as opposed to synthetic minerals)?