Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Nature of Science
- Astronomy
- Objects beyond Earth's atmosphere
- Earth's neighbors, distant stars, and other cosmic bodies
- Meteorology
- Forces and processes that
produce weather
- Blanket of air that surrounds Earth
- Geology
- Materials that make up Earth
- Rocks, glacial, movements, and
clues to Earth's history
- Oceanography
- Physical and chemical
properties of the ocean
- Creatures that inhabit salty water
- Subspecialties
- Climatology
- Hydrology
- Water flow on and below
Earth's surface
- Paleontology
- Study of ancient enviorments
- Geochemistry
- The processes that
change Earth's
composition
- Parts of the Earth
- Lithosphere
- Rigid outer shell
- Hydrosphere
- The water in Earth's oceans,
seas, lakes, rivers, and glaciers
- Atmosphere
- The blanket of gases that surround Earth
- Asthenosphere
- Partially molten
layer of the mantle
- Biosphere
- Includes all organisms on Earth
and the enviorments they live
in