Ecology Careers: What Do Ecologist Do?
Working in ecology is seeing conservation in action. These 7 questions and answers evaluate ecologists career for salary, job duties and potential employers.
Month: February 2018
Shape of the Earth: The Oblate Spheroid
Earth is not a perfect sphere. In fact, it’s in the shape of an oblate spheroid. Earth shape bulges at the equator and flattens at the north and south pole.
Chandler Wobble: Why the Earth Wobbles Like a Toy Top
Earth spins on its axis of rotation. But it doesn’t spin perfectly. Like a toy top, it wobbles when it spins. This displacement is the Chandler Wobble.
Sedimentary Rocks: Compaction and Cementation of Sediments
Sedimentary rocks form from two key processes. First, compaction squeezes material together. Second, cementing glues the squeezed material together.
Proterozoic Eon: Eukaryotes to Multicellular Life (2500 to 541 million years ago)
In the Proterozoic Eon, key highlights are: ozone layer thickened, an oxygen crisis, Snowball Earth and eukaryotes and multicellular organisms evolved.
How the Rock Cycle Recycles Earth’s Crust
If you could speed up time, you would see rocks cycling from within the planet. Like a well-oiled machine, rocks are igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic.
What Do Meteorologists Do? A Meteorologist Job Description
Meteorologists partake in weather prediction. They understand atmospheric chemistry and physics and how they relate to weather and climate patterns.
Chemical Weathering: Hydrolysis, Oxidation and Acidic Reactions
Chemical weathering is the process of transforming a rock’s composition through chemical reactions (by dissolving or converting them into other minerals)
