ESCI 401- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 35 pages long!)

• School: UNH
• Department: Earth Sciences
• Course: ESCI 401
• Professor: Boettcher, Margaret S.

Document Summary

Study guide: what is sustainable development, 1987 united nations definition: development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, four components: The sun: biomass trees and plants. Earth"s interior: decay of radioactive elements uranium, renewable resources, biomass in general that comes from the sun timber, foliage, sunlight, wind energy, hydroelectric, geothermal energy, radioactive elements, non-renewable resources. Water: what are the steps in the scientific method, making observations, creating a hypothesis, hypothesis: tentative explanation based on data, test to see if the hypothesis holds. If so : create a theory, this is formed by creating a set of hypotheses that have survived the challenges of experimentations and now have a substantial amount of support through the collected data. Scientific model: precise (specific) representation of how a natural system is built or should behave, example of the scientific method: : a traveler lived in a city called syene.