ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE MIDTERMS

The name for all the sciences that collectively seek to understand Earth and its neighbors in space.

It includes geology, oceanography, meteorology and astronomy.

Examines the materials composing Earth and seeks to understand the many processes that operate beneath and upon its surface.

It strives to establish an orderly chronological arrangement of the multitude of physical and biological changes that have occurred by the geologic past.

It involves the application of all sciences in a comprehensive and interrelated study of the oceans in all their aspects.

The study of the atmosphere and the processes that produce weather and climate.

The study of the universe. Very useful in probing the origins of our own environment.

A tentative or untested explanation.

a set of principles on which the practice of an activity is based

is a series of steps that a scientist follows to analyze and answer a question about a specific observation. there are 6 methods.