Curiosity- Reason plan and hypothesis- experiment- understand results- communicate results- modify rethink and reinitiate curiosity. The scientific method is a continuously changing spiral that slowly leads scientists to a better and more correct understanding of how the world works.
Science is a claim that can be tested and proven falsifiable
Pseudoscience is an explanation that cannot be tested, or not based on evidence.
Objective is more factual without your personal biases.
While Subjective is an observation based on your feelings or beliefs.
Quantitative means to create results with a numerical value.
Qualitative means to give a general description of those results.
A theory in everyday language is more like what a hypothesis is. It’s a idea in the start not a proven idea
A theory in science is a idea that has been tested and so far been shown to explain how our world works, for example gravity is still just a theory despite it being essentially factual we don’t know everything and that could change
A temperate climate is one that is warm year round. Almost always following the equator.
Almost entirely due to where along the latitude lines they are. There are some factors that change it like the oceans and wind currents.
A system that includes all living organisms (BIOTIC) in an area. It also includes the (ABIOTIC) non living parts of the environment.
Biotic- birds, plants, wolves, Bacteria (any living being)
Abioutic- Ocean, Mineral, Sunlight (non living)
It can have disastrous outcomes. For example Wolves were killed out of Idaho meaning elk and deer population skyrocketed eating vegetation which harmed other species like song birds that lost their previous habitats.
The GYE has diverse and natural life. With Hydrothermal features, wildlife, lakes, and geologic wonders
Very high elevation that is surrounded by mountains, hydrothermal features, contential divide, etc
Elevation(High), Geology inside of it(large part Rhyolite which is rather poor in nutrient value but Lodgepole pines love), Hydrology, Flora, Fauna, Microbial life
Along most of Eastern Idaho's border into Wyoming, and Montana
Yellowstone national park is inside of the boundaries of the GYA, but doesn’t hold all of it. The GYA extends further outward then the park does.
WhitePine Trees are one of the best examples as they really love to grow in the andesite here. And they attract other creatures like Grizzly bears.
Due to the mountains and wind currents it creates a funnel over the great planes to us.
The continental divide is which side of the continent water will flow towards.
The big bang collapsed 13.8 Billion years ago expanding matter outwards. This matter was mostly Hydrogen and Helium. The matter slowly condensed itself into stars. Fusion then started to create other elements by joining atoms together. The process will repeat itself slowly creating more and more matter.
13.8 Billion years ago
A supernova happened sending space dust out. Then a Solar nebula forms (giant area of gas's and dusts), Planets form as gravational attractors, Bombarment slows, and the early crust starts to be recycled, Earth Cools down enough to support lasting crust, an atmosphere, then life
The cyle of stars creates heavier elements providing the material to create planets.
Eons, Eras, and Ephocs. These are divided based on life on earth appearing, or different major geographical situations. The life will change based on major events like plants-animals, or dinosaurs dieing due to volcanic/astral means.
Eons are the largest descriptor there are 4 on them and are only introduced based on Very Major changes. Next is Eras these are marked by Major changes like extinction events, or the start of life. Next is Ephocs also changed by extinction or life forming events.
The world was created. Then all the events after.
Relative: The order that differenet features formed. The relative sequence of events
Numerical age (absolute age): the age of a feature given in years
A technique that shows the relative age of a fossil. Shows rock layers where the fossils are gound and can place them in order.
Absolute dating, half lives.
Ion: an element that has no neutral charge.
Isotope: atoms that have the same number of protons and electrons but a different amount of neutrons
Using the halflife of an element, we can see the ratio of parent to daughter atoms.
Elements decay at a fairly consistant rate, seeing what the ratio of parent to daughter atoms is.
3 different Caldara events in the past 2.1 Million years. The land has been an ocean then land than an ocean again.
The main way we can till is the sedimentary rocks. The rocks show evidence of sea life.
2.1 Million years ago Ago Huckleberry Ridge Tuff
1.3 Million years ago Mesa falls tuff
0.64 Million years ago Lava creek Tuff
Anything and everything that can take up space and be weighed
There atomic composition and different arangments.
1 Natural (debated)
2 Solids
3 Inorganic no carbon bompounds
4 Crystalline
There atomic structure, and bonding forces
Rocks are made up of multiple minerals.
Silicates, It's the most abundent element on earth. And Silicon and Oxygen make a very stable bond together.
Igneous: Melted and reformed
Sedimentary: conglomeration of other rocks
Metamorphic: Formed from transformation of other rocks.
Igneous rocks can be Intrusive meaning they were cooled beneath the earth. Or extrusive meaning they went through a rapid cooling
Compositional: Contential layers, OIcreanic crusts, Crust-Mantal-Core
Mechanical Lithosphere, aestheonosphere, mesosphere, outer core, inner core
Oceanic: Basalt extruded at ocean ridges
Continental: less dense rock (granite) much thicker.
A area where the plate is moving in a different volocity
Divergent, Transorm, Convergent
A fault is an area where two plates move past each other
The block above moves downward
the block above continues to move up
A block moves up and over another block (Japan)
Two blocks go past each other.
Felsic: more silica like Rhyolite
Mafic less silica
Gas, ash,Lava
Volcanoes are formed from different different magma chambers that form pressure and leak through the top. Different types of magma will create different hazards
A scale that describes the saize of explosive volcanic eruptions based on magnitude and intensity
Plumes are pockets of magma thats raising through the layers of the crust. They create hotspots that can cause eruptions.
Yellowstone sits over a plume which is hot but not melted rocks warming things
It's not very full, indicating an eruption won't happen anytime soon.
Rhyolite and basalt
Earthquake activity, Heat flow(magma gets warmed),Changes in shape/ Emision changes
2.1 Million Island hucklebery ridge duff
1.3 Mya Henry's fork
0.640 Yellowstone caldera