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What other things do YOU like to use?

What other things do YOU like to use?. 1. Why study Earth Science? 2. What is a system? 3. What are sources of energy that drive Earth’s systems? 4. What is Earth Science? 5. What are the Earth’s four major spheres? 6. What was the significance of Apollo 8?. Why Earth Science?.

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What other things do YOU like to use?

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  1. What other things do YOU like to use?

  2. 1. Why study Earth Science?2. What is a system?3. What are sources of energy that drive Earth’s systems?4. What is Earth Science?5. What are the Earth’s four major spheres?6. What was the significance of Apollo 8?

  3. Why Earth Science? • Because nearly everything we do each day is connected in some way to the Earth: to its land, oceans, atmosphere, plants, and animals • Because just as Earth systems directly affect us, we - as individuals, communities and nations - affect our planet • Because we LIVE on Earth!! Source AGI 2014

  4. Windows To the Universe

  5. Apollo 8 - 1968Looking at our planet from this vantage point makes it easy to see that all its parts - the living things, the air, the water, the ice, and the rocks - are connected. Everything on Earth is part of ONE system. This iconic picture taken from Apollo 8 in 1968 changed how scientists, and the general public, view our Earth. As a result, the ideas of Earth System Science was developed. Windows To the Universe

  6. What is a system? A system can be any size group of interacting parts that form a complex whole

  7. What are the sources of energy that drive Earth’s systems? • Heat energy from inside the Earth • Radiation from our closest star . . . The sun

  8. Apollo 8 http://youtu.be/m5ODWzoxobg

  9. What is Earth Science? • It is the name for a group of sciences that deals with Earth and its neighbors • It includes: the study of Earth’s interior, rocks, soil, the atmosphere, oceans and outter space

  10. Biosphere Hydrosphere What are Earth’s four major spheres? Geosphere Atmosphere

  11. http://youtu.be/_tvWDPBNiD4

  12. 1. Why study Earth Science?2. What is a system?3. What are sources of energy that drive Earth’s systems?4. What is Earth Science?5. What are the Earth’s four major spheres?6. What was the significance of Apollo 8?

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