EES 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hurricane Harvey, A Natural Disaster, Natural Disaster
5 Feb 2018
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50% in-class & online exercises (2 lowest dropped) They study rocks because rocks give us clues about the. Geologists also study water, soil, and the atmosphere. A natural disaster is a naturally occurring event that has a negative effect on humans. The difference between a natural hazard and a natural disaster is people! Return time : the average number of years between same-sized events. "great" natural disasters kill 1,000"s of people and require international aid. Smaller natural disasters are more frequent than large ones. "return time": the average number of years between same-sized events. The "scientific method" is a series of steps to systematically analyze scientific problems in a way that leads to verifiable results. A possible explanation, involving only naturally occurring processes, that can explain a set of observations. A change from one dominant way of thinking to another. Like the movement from newtonian physics to einsteinian physics.
