Earth Science 11 - Fall 2000 Assignment 1: Intro: Earth and its Environment

1. The major branches of earth science are astronomy, geology, meteorology and oceanography. Describe the topics studied by each of these branches of earth science.

Astronomy -

Geology -

Meteorology -

Oceanography -

2. Give an example of a phenomena that would be studied by more than one of the branches. Explain your answer.

3. Describe the way your everday life has been or could be most affected by each of the branches of earth science give one beneficial example and one detrimental example.

4. In what way have you as an individual most affected each branch of earth science. Give one beneficial example and one detrimental example?

5. Describe the major tools and activities of earth scientists

6. Identify both local and regional earth-science-related careers

7. Describe and compare the layers of the earth from the atmosphere to the core. Include a diagram (page 9 of text). Explain how earth's interior got its layered structure.

8. Identify sources of heat that drive dynamic changes in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and the interior of the earth

9. Describe methods of obtaining, visualizing, and analyzing local and regional information about the earth

10. Which of the six facts listed in Topic 6 (page 6 and 7 of text) seem to be explained by the protoplanet hypothesis?