The disciplines that study the Earth itself: its rocks, its weather, its oceans and its geological past, including the fossil record: earth science, geology, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, paleontology, seismology and volcanology. Excludes astronomy and the other disciplines that study bodies beyond Earth, which belong to Physical Sciences, and excludes ecology, which studies living systems on Earth rather than the planet's own physical structure and is grouped with Life Sciences.
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Natural science can be divided into two main branches: life science and physical science. Life science is alternatively known as biology, and physical science is subdivided into branches: physics, chemistry, astronomy and Earth science.
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