EPS 80- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 44 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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The various sciences, including geography, geology, and meteorology, that deal with the earth, its composition, or any of its changing aspects. Change is the norm (nothing is static) Earthquakes here are common due to hayward fault. The air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors surrounding and affecting a given organism or system at any time. Caused a shockwave that broke all the windows, injuring thousands of people. Hayward fault causing an earthquake in california. Increase in wildfires, as the state dries out and gets warmer and warmer. I. e. measuring how far the faults have moved, gps location. A type of critical thinking - the identification and evaluation of evidence to guide decision making. A well tested, synthetic explanation that accounts for a broad range of phenomena. A simplified version of a natural system. Natural systems are too complex - chaotic/self-organizing - to fully model. Models are all we got, by default imperfect.
