### science | natural science:

Earth science
* Includes earth features, earth processes, and earth in the universe.
* Most earth science explain phenomena.
* addresses soil conservation, watershed processes, and climatology.
* are a particular case in which the use of Chinese literature was the highest
  - natural science
  - scientific discipline
* can play a big role in the economic arena, as well.
* describes the properties of the planets, rotation, motion, and size of the Earth.
* explores the nature of earth, sea and sky as it relates to our world's eco-systems.
* helps in locating fossil fuels, such as oil.
* includes the study of geology, oceanography, astronomy, and meteorology.
* is everywhere
  - for students who want to study both geology and physical geography
* is the study of land and the features of the Earth
  - the Earth's structure, properties, processes, and evolution
  - very important in the world today
  - vital in education
* plays a unique and essential role in today's rapidly changing world.
* relies heavily on chemistry.
* separate discipline from solar physics or astrophysics.
* younger science.

### science | natural science | earth science:

Oceanography
* encompasses physics, chemistry and geology, as well as biology.
* is an earth science

Palaeontology
* contributes the fourth dimension, time, to essentially biological problems.
* is academic journals
* is the scientific study of fossils and extinct animals before modern humans existed
  - study of ancient life

### science | natural science | earth science:

Paleontology
* Most paleontology is devoted to the study of phyletic evolutionary changes.
* also has new relevance to ethics.
* branch of the biological sciences.
* diverse science.
* has a lot to say about conservation biology.
* historical science.
* incorporates many different kinds of data from different fields.
* investigates the forms of life that existed in prehistoric times.
* involves the integration of a number of different areas of expertise.
* is academic specialty
  - among the broadest of sciences
  - hard on the muscles
  - important in the study of geology
  - one of the few sciences where the amateur can make a real contribution
* is the biological part of geology
  - most widely used method of learning about dinosaurs
* is the science dealing with the life of past geological periods
  - that studies fossils
  - which treats fossils as evidence of ancient life
  - scientific study of life-forms existing in former geological time periods
  - study of ALL fossilized remains
* is the study of all fossilized remains, of which dinosarus are only a small part
  - life from bacteria to whales
  - life, archeology is the study of human remains and cultures only
* is the study of ancient life
  - organisms, their biology, evolution, and ecology
  - fossilized animals, plants, and other organisms from prehistoric times
* is the study of fossils to help learn about ancient life
  - which are the remains and traces of past living things
  - life of the past, the study of fossils
  - past plant and animal life from fossil remains
* is the study of prehistoric life based on fossil evidence
* is the study of the fossil record
  - fossils of animal and plant life
* is the study of the history of life on Earth as reflected in the fossil record
  - traces of ancient life
  - thus a limited sort of zoology
  - very much a world science
* popular science.
* science that mixes in a whole lot of other sciences and activities
  - where the trail has long been cold and the evidence buried
* seeks to map out how living things have changed through time.
* shows a fossil sequence, the list of species representing changes through time.