EARTH SCIENCE

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Meaning:

Any of the sciences that deal with the earth or its parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("earth science" is a kind of...):

natural science (the sciences involved in the study of the physical world and its phenomena)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "earth science"):

fossilology; palaeontology; paleontology (the earth science that studies fossil organisms and related remains)

geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)

meteorology (the earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere (especially weather))

oceanography; oceanology (the branch of science dealing with physical and biological aspects of the oceans)

limnology (the scientific study of bodies of fresh water for their biological and physical and geological properties)

geographics; geography (study of the earth's surface; includes people's responses to topography and climate and soil and vegetation)