branches of science and some terminologies

• science - organized body of knowledge based on the observation of nature in order to discover facts and to formulate laws based on these observations
• formal science - study of systems that uses formal symbols and follows a set of rules eg. math and logic)
• social science - study of human society (eg. economics and political science)
• natural science - study of the physical world and nature
• physical science - study mostly non-living systems

  • physics
  • chemistry
  • earth science
  • astronomy
• life sciences - study living organisms

  • biology
• geology - study of the earth; geo - earth; logos - study, think
• cardiovascular - heart and blood vessels; cardio - heart; vasco - vessel
• exothermic - release of heat; exo - out, thermo - heat
• calorimetry - measurement of heat transfer; calor - heat; metron - measure
• tetrapods - four legged animals; tetra - four; pog - foot or leg
• hydrolysis - chemical composition by water; hydro - water; lysis - breakdown
• photosynthesis - process using sunlight to create food and oxygen; photo - light; synthesis - to put together
• pneumonoultramicroscopicvolcanoconiosis - disease from volcano ash