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Contents of 1.3 Scientific Methods 5

• How do geologists do science?
• The scientific method is not a recipe
• Different questions/scenarios require modification of the method
• Field work
• Seasonal processes
• Instrumental/laboratory work
• Computer simulations
• Remember the aspect of scale: time is another variable to your computer. A large-scale, or slow, process can be "modified" in virtual fashion in models
• Climate models are a prime example

1.3 How do we know How to study Earth?