Sunday 31 July 2011

Effects of Internal Geoprocesses

By just barely looking at the things around us, like the mountains, valleys, etc., it seems like earth’s crust is very stable. It seemed that there was no movement happened. That mountain appears by itself, so as with the other land forms. But, to those people who believe that there is a pressure strong enough to bend rocks and heat hot enough to melt rocks beneath the earth’ crust, everything happened for a reason. These processes tend not to end. In fact ever since the earth was born the crust has never been restless.


Theories were developed by scientists to explain these internal geologic processes. Among those theories, they accepted the Plate Tectonic Theory. This states that earth’s crust is consist of plates which are pulling away from one another, sliding or moving towards each other.


There were three types of plate boundaries based on the said movement. First is the convergent boundary, which plates move together and produce mountain ranges, like Himalayas, and trenches. Second is the divergent boundary where plates move away from each other and produces valleys. Last is the transform boundary where plates slide with one another and creates fault lines like the San Andreas Fault. Among these plate boundaries, earthquakes occur mostly.


Earth had been very amazing. Though we can’t see any actions or movements that happened beneath the crust we still believe that they really occur and results to the things that we can see around us.

Tuesday 5 July 2011

Significance of Science and Technology in Our Lives

Science and technology, we can always notice these words together though they both don’t have the same meaning but they are still connected with each other. Science and technology contributes good things in our lives but at the same time, they also do have disadvantages.

The great contribute of science in our lives is to explain how things came to existence. Just like how the universe started. Science could tell us how it came from nothing to something. The magic of science did not end yet. It can also explain to us how things behave and the characteristics and properties that they have.

On the other hand, science has its disadvantages. Due to science’ explanations, people lose faith in God. They don’t believe anymore on what was written on the Bible. They only focus themselves on finding ways to explain things scientifically. Most likely, scientists only believe in the things if they can see it.


Next is technology.  Nowadays, technology almost ruled everything in this world. People use technology to satisfy their needs. They use it to make things to easier for them. Like computer which can be used on office works to make the burdens of the employees be lighter.

Just like science, technology also has its disadvantages. Above all, technology causes people to be lazy. They just depend their works to technology. They just focus themselves on the saying, “technology could make things easier.” Lastly, is the misuse of technology which causes the destruction of our nature.

As time moves forward, the more the science and technology influenced our lives. As long as science can discover more things, technology also became more advance and find more ways to make life easier that we’ve ever expected.