The Nature of Earth Science
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The Nature of Earth ScienceQuestions
- How does geology affect our daily life?
- What do geologists study?
- Why is it important to study geology?
- How does the earth system change over time?
- What are the different earth systems?
- How do forces inside the earth create and change landforms?
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- Is earth's rotation clockwise or counterclockwise?
- Since there is both a nitrogen and carbon cycle why is there more nitrogen in the atmosphere than carbon?
- How does knowing the history of the earth relate to the concepts in evolution?
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- What is uniformitarianism?
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- How do geologists determine how rocks were formed?
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- The Cenozoic Era has the most divisions yet it takes up the least amount of time on the Geological time scale. Why is this?
- How is geological time measured?
- Why do geologists use the geologic time scale to show earth's history?
- What is the longest division in geological time?
- Is there a good mnemonic device to remember all the geologic ages, including eras?
- Why can it be difficult to assign dates to the division of the geologic time scale?
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- What is the geologic column?