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Earth Science … Get Your Child More Involved In the World Around Them
Science is a fascinating subject for any age because of how applicable the concepts are to our everyday life. There are several different categories associated with science including, earth science, life science, and physical science. We will be speaking specifically about earth science for now. Earth science deals with the many different processes that take place on our planet. Earth science is inescapable and ever-present (which is part of its appeal in many cases). Below are some examples of specialties that deal with earth science. You will find brief definitions as well as some of the sub-disciplines that are part of that area of study.
Geology – Geology describes the land or rocky parts of the Earth’s crust and its development over time. Major sub-disciplines include: mineralogy and petrology, geochemistry, geomorphology, paleontology, stratigraphy, engineering geology and sedimentology.
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Weather Forecast in the West
While a large number of scientists believe the world is warming due to greenhouse gases, another large number believe that we are in a natural cycle and that what comes next is cooling. Some say the cooling has already begun and that climate changes, which nobody disputes, are happening independently of greenhouse gases. What is not at all in debate is the fact that the earth is undergoing climate change. That, in the view of scientists, will continue for at least the next 30 years if global warming continues, no matter what the cause of global warming.
Writing in the 2008 July/August issue of Water Efficiency, Penelope Grenoble has provided a profound report entitled “The Future Is Now”. She pulls together research and reports of scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California in San Diego; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison; the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory – to name but some – as they study what is happening to the earth’s climate and say what they think will happen next.
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