Thursday, October 9, 2008

Life sciene and Physical science

There are many branches of science that you may study. Basically,though, all of these fall into major areas- life science and physical science.
Life science is the study of live and living things. This is a organic world.This is where each living things carries out life processes.(Life processes are things likee growing and reproduction.)
Physical science is the study of the inorganic world.It studies nonliving things.Nonliving things do not carry out life processes.
Life science is also called biology. Two areas of biology are zoology and botany. Zoology is the study of animals.Botany is the study of plants.Some biologists study how organisms carry out life processes .This is physiology .Other scientist study how parents offsprinare alike an differents.This is genetics. Some biologists specializein a combination of subjects An example is palentology .It is the study of ancient life.It combines teh studies of earth science,zoology,and botony.
The area of physical science includes four big subjects.One is physics.It is the study of energy.It includes teh structure adn behavior of atoms.Another is chemistry.It is the study of matter.It studies matter's properties and structure and the ways it changes.A third is astronomy.Thisis the science os the entire universe beyond Earth.It also studies Earth when Earth interacts with other bodies in the solar system.A fourth is earth science. This is the study os Earth an dthe space surrounding it.Different branches of earth science study land, water,and air . These are teh sciences os geology,aceanography,and meterology.

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