What is science and who are scientists?
Science is a way of organizing what we already know and learning more by experiments.
Scientists use the scientific method to learn about the world.
There are a lot of different branches of science. Here are a few
What is science and who are scientists?
Science is a way of organizing what we already know and learning more by experiments.
Scientists use the scientific method to learn about the world.
There are a lot of different branches of science. Here are a few of the more common sciences:
- anthropology is the study of humans
- astronomy is the study of stars, planets, moons, and everything in space
- biochemistry - if you combine biology and chemistry, you get biochemistry - the chemistry of living things
- biology is the study of living things
- botany is the study of plants
- chemistry is the study of the elements (like carbon) and their compounds (like carbon dioxide)
- geology is the study of rocks and the earth
- meteorology is the study of the weather
- pathology is the study of examining body tissues to diagnose health proglems
- physics is the study of energy - light, sound, heat, electricity, and motion
- toxicology is the study of how chemicals hurt living things
- zoology is