help for research paper?

Question

I'm taking intro. to Earth Science in college.My professor gave us a research paper to do over any topic.It has to analyze processes,principles, & concepts instead of mostly consist of chronological events or narratives.I'm clueless on topic ideas and the professor won't give any ideas.

Answer 1

Plate tectonics is BY FAR the best topic to pursue for this paper.

Answer 2

The geologic processes in Wyoming are varied enough to provide a full spectrum and are well studied due to the mineral wealth there, so information to work with should be easily available from places like the USGS and the Wyoming Department of Natural Resorces..

My apologies for being so vague, but much help beyond that would be unscrupulous and detrimental to what the professor is trying to teach you to do. College is not like high school, the professors are not trying to get you to memorize things or show you can give the right answer; they are trying to get you to think for yourself and have insight.

Answer 3

Go for some of the prediction methods that may help to create awareness on earthquakes. Methods for prediction of earthquakes & Tsunami
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1. Seismic gape: - The earthquake at a particular place may occur for every fixed gape of time. By knowing the past records of the quakes affected at that place may help to decide when the earthquake is next due.

2. Planet position.: - When the stress is accumulated at the tectonic plate boundary and the same time if the position of more than 2 planets comes in a straight line this may help to accelerate the earthquakes. There fore the full moon days and new moon days are more vulnerable days for earthquakes. Some time this method fails why? Think of a sick patient. New moon and full moon days are dangerous for only sick patents. These days will not affect the healthy people. The same way if there is no accumulated stress at the tectonic plate boundaries no need to worry about the planet positions.

3. Sun rays falling method: - If you observe the position of the sun rays falling on our wall at a particular time on all days it should form an angular infinity symbol. If there is any deviation in its path it means that there is some difference in height of the earth. That means some strain noticed at that place. Somebody claims that they can predict the place of epicenter by observing this. The laser beam measuring method of earth height from satellite also will help.

4. MCDB:- Chinese scientist claims that they can predict up to 60 % accuracy by sensing electro magnetic rays.

5. Cloud forming: - Few hours to a few days before the occurrence of earthquakes a cloud reader claims that he has noticed a peculiar mosaic type of formation .We may also notice some lightening in the sky.

6. By sound :- A professor from Ajmeer University claims that he was able to hear a low frequency noise under 125 meter depth in a bore well. The same thing was reported by one Mr. Nair that he heard some roaring noise under the earth one week before the occurrence of earthquake in Gujarat.

7. By frequency of waves :- Mr Richter Allen of Berkley University claims that he can decide the magnitude of earthquake just 4 seconds after observing the frequency of the primary wave. Present method needs the full seismographic picture to find the real magnitude that too from as many places as possible to have fairly accurate results. His claim has got some truth because when there is a slip of bigger tectonic plate the frequency of quake will be less. If a small tectonic plate slips the frequency of the waves will be more.
8. There are several changes in nature and in the behaviors of animals and birds can be observed before an earthquake and Tsunami. I wrote several articles on these subjects. This will be more helpful to save the people at least in future.






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Answer 4

The easiest subject I can think of for a paper like this would be plate tectonics. It involves many different processes (mountain building, volcanism, continental motion, etc), principles (convection, density, gravitational pull, etc), and concepts...

There is a wealth of information out there, but just to get you started I'll give you the link for Wikipedia's section of plate tectonics. For more information do an internet search for "plate tectonics" or try one of the many online databases like infotrac.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics

Good luck.

Answer 5

How about a subject that is currently big: The scientific and political progress of the global warming issue. You can talk about the process by which global warming has gone from being a fringe theory in scientific circles to being generally accepted by the scientific community, and the parallel political development that has taken place.

Answer 6

Do your paper on Global Warming, greenhouse gases, the weather system on earth pertaining specifically to the weather generating ocean currents.

Answer 7

How about the American Industrial revolution
or Imigration population growth?