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Environmental Science
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What is Environmental Science?
Relationships between people and the natural environment.
InterdisciplinaryBroad fieldEcology is a basic tool
GoalsEstablish general principles about how the natural
world functionsIdentifying, understanding, and solving problems
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What is Earth Science?
• All the sciences that collectively seek to understand Earth and its neighbors in space.
• Four Sciences:
• Geology• Oceanography• Meteorology• Astronomy
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How are earth science, environmental science and people connected?
Earth Science
Environmental science
People
Envir
onment:
-Biological
-Physica
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Resources:-Renewable-Non-renewable
Population growth
Environmental problems
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How do Earth scientists know all this stuff?
• Observation• Experimentation• Understanding other sciences – Biology – Physics– Chemistry
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The Nature of Scientific Inquiry
The Scientific Method
1) Collection of scientific facts through observation and measurement
2) Hypothesis: tentative explanations to observations
3) Extensive testing and analysis4) Acceptance, modification or
rejection
Models
Useful when dealing with natural processes that occur over very long periods of time (scales of time) or in inaccessible locations.
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The nature of Scientific Inquiry
Theory• A well tested and widely
accepted view that the scientific community agrees best explains certain observable facts
Paradigms• Theories that are
extensively documented and explain a large number of interrelated aspects of the natural world.
Scientific laws• A basic principle that describes a particular behavior of
nature that is generally narrow in scope and can be sated briefly
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STUDYING EARTH FROM SPACE… pg 8.
How can satellite images be used to study Earth from space?
• Know the composition of Earth’s surface• Precipitation data• Understanding global climate change
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Scales of Space and Time
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The Nebular Hypothesis and Origins of Earth and the Solar System
A. solar nebula
B. contraction into rotating disk
C. Cooling causing condensing into tiny (dust sized) solid particles
D. Collisions between these form larger bodies
E. These accrete to form planets
Oceanography 100 Animations
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Earth’s Spheres
Atmosphere
Geosphere
Biosphere
Hydrosphere
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HYDROSPHERE
• Oceans 97%• Freshwater– Streams– Lakes– Glaciers– Underground
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Atmosphere
• Life-giving gaseous envelope• ½ lies below an altitude of
5.6 km• 90 % occurs within just 16
km• Protects from the dangerous
radiation emitted by the Sun.
• Site of weather and climate
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Biosphere
• All life on Earth• Depend and respond to their physical environment• Have an effect on their physical environment
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GeosphereLayers defined by
composition:
• Crust– Oceanic, 40 km, d= 3g/cm3– Continental, 70 km, d = 2,7 g/cm3
• Mantle, 2900 km, d=3,4 g/cm3
• Core, d= 13 g/cm3
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Geosphere
Layers defined by physical properties:
• Lithosphere
• Asthenosphere
• Lower mantle
• Outer core
• Inner core
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Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics
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Mountainbelts
OCEAN BASIN
CONTINENTS
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Earth as a System
What is a SYSTEM?• Group of interacting parts that form a complex
whole.
• Two types:– Closed system: energy moves freely in and out, but
matter does not enter or leave the system.– Open system: both matter and energy flow into and
out of the system.
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Earth as a System
• Within the Earth system, the spheres are interconnected.
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Earth as a System
• Energy for the Earth system is powered by two sources:1) Sun: drives external processes that
occur in the atmosphere, hydrosphere and at Earth’s surface.
2) Heat from Earth’s interior: powers internal processes that produce volcanoes, earthquakes and mountains.
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