EAS100 Final: EAS 100 FINAL NOTES

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
• Course: EAS100
• Professor: Solweig Balzer

Document Summary

Experiment and observation used: physics and chem are experimental sciences, earth science is primarily observational, but experiments are also. Observation and hypotheses: observation, formation of hypothesis, observation hypothesis (educated guess) test. What makes an idea scientific: it can be tested against observation or experiment, testing of a hypothesis and formation of a theory, wide-spread idea that can have exceptions, example: principle of superposition (stuff on top is younger than. Physical and chemical processes that operate at the present day . Relationship to other sciences: earth science makes use of the principles and laws derived from other sciences, such as physics, chemistry and biology, paleontology, geophysics, geochemistry, biogeography. Short term changes in the atmosphere (weather) Geographical variation and long term changes in the. Resources obtained from the earth atmosphere (climate: water, consumption, irrigation, fuels, coal, oil, natural gas, materials, metals, building materials (roads, sand, gravel, etc)