What is the common name for the natural sciences? What are bodies, substances and natural phenomena?
1. What is the common name for the natural sciences? 2. What are bodies, substances and natural phenomena? Give examples of bodies and substances that you encounter in everyday life. 3. List the sciences you know about nature. 4. What does each of the natural sciences (astronomy, physics, chemistry, geography, biology, ecology) study?
1. Natural sciences.
2. A body can be called any object, any living creature (cat, tree, telephone). Substance is what the bodies are made of (iron, crystal, silver). Phenomena are any changes that occur in nature (lightning, snow, leaf fall).
3. Chemistry, biology, physics, geography, astronomy, ecology.
3. Astoronmia studies celestial bodies. Physics studies a variety of natural phenomena. Chemistry studies substances and their transformations. Geography describes our planet. Biology studies wildlife. Ecology studies the relationship of organisms between themselves and the environment.