ENVIR ST 106 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Doubling Time, Scientific Method, Environmental Geology
29 Oct 2014
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Explores the many and varied interactions between humans and that geologic environment. Starting point: a set of observations and/or a body of data from measurements of phenomena and/or experiments. Hypothesis: formed to explain the observations or data. Must be testable and test must be reproducible. Proof of a hypothesis is sought, as well as evidence to disprove it. Make set of predictions and perform series of experiments. Theory: formed as accepted explanation for an observation or set of data. Hypothesis becomes a theory only after extensive testing of the hypothesis. The length of time required for a population to double in size.
