EARTH AND LIFE

SCIENCE

PREPARED BY: MYLENE I. BATANG

 What is Earth
and Life Science?
 WHAT IS
EARTH
SCIENCE?
 EARTH SCIENCE
Is a general term referring to
any studies that relate to the
earth or neighboring planets in
our solar system.
FOUR MAJOR FIELDS IN EARTH
SCIENCE:
A. GEOLOGY- The study of the earth’s
structure
B.METEOROLOGY- the study of weather
and atmosphere
C.OCEANOGRAPHY-the study of the
oceans
D.ASTRONOMY- the study of the universe
 WHAT IS
LIFE
SCIENCE?
LIFE SCIENCE
•Life science comprises all
fields of study of living
organisms.
FIVE MAJOR FIELDS IN LIFE
SCIENCE:
BIOLOGY- The study of life
MARINE BIOLOGY- the study of marine
life
BOTANY- the study of plants
ZOOLOGY- The study of animals
MICROBIOLOGY- the study of
microorganisms
EARTH AND
LIFE
SCIENCE
EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCE
•The interaction of living
organisms to its environment.
•Describes how environment and
physical processes affects the
living organisms.
THEORIES ON THE
ORIGIN OF THE
UNIVERSE
 DIVINE CREATION
THEORY
•The narrative from the book of
GENESIS, one of the books of the
Hebrew Bible.
•Described how God separated light
from darkness, created the sky, land,
sea, moon, stars, and every living
creature in a span of six days.
Genesis 1:1-31
•Day 1- creation of the heavens and the
earth; darkness and light.
•Day 2- division between the waters and the
waters.
•Day 3- appearance of the dry land later God
named it Earth and the collecting of
waters, he named it Seas. Next is
vegetation.
•Day 4- creation of luminaries as a sign
for seasons, days and years.
•Day 5- creation of great sea creature
and flying creature
•Day 6- creation of wild and domestic
animals
 RIGVEDA
•The Hindu text that describes the universe
as an oscillating universe in which a “cosmic
egg" or BRAHMANDA containing the whole
universe- including the sun, moon, planets,
and space- expanded out of a single
concentrated point called BINDU, and will
eventually collapse again.
 ATOMIC UNIVERSE
• Proposed by 2 Greek
philosophers Leucippus and
Democritus.
•They believed that the universe
was composed of very small,
indivisible, indestructible atoms.
 GEOCENTRIC UNIVERSE
•Proposed by famous philosophers
Aristotle and Ptolemy
•They believed that the Earth stayed
motionless in the heavens and
everything was revolving around it.
 HELIOCENTRIC UNIVERSE
•Proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus in
1543
•He opposed the geocentric
universe and explained that the
earth is not the center of the
universe.
Other Scientists
and their Beliefs
About the
Universe
SIR ISAAC NEWTON
• He described the universe as static,
steady-state, infinite universe.
•Also believed that matter on a large
scale is uniformly distributed and the
universe is gravitationally balanced
but essentially unstable.
RENE DESCARTES
•Outlined a cartessian vortex model of
the universe.
•His model involved a system of huge
swirling whirlpools of fine matter,
producing what would later be called
gravitational effects.
 ALBERT EINSTEIN
•He has the same assumption with Newton’s
belief that the universe was neither
expanding nor contracting.
•He later abandoned this part of the theory
when, in 1929, American astronomer Edwin
Hubble showed that the universe is
expanding.