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If you like the idea of exploring the world around you and making new discoveries, then you should consider becoming a scientist. It creates new knowledge, improves education, and increases the quality of our lives. There’s more than a whole world of science, since you might even study things far beyond our earth, and be an astronomer.ĭo you want to see what some of the scientists at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences do? They are so excited about their work that they developed their own video to show young people like you what they do and how it can help keep us all healthy.Science plays an important role in all our lives. Is it grasshoppers and wasps? Then entomology is for you - that’s the study of insects. What kind of scientist do you think you might like to be? Think about what interests you - is it volcanos? Then maybe you’d like to be a vulcanologist, a special kind of geologist. Scientists are curious - they want to know the answers. Science is all about getting answers to questions. So there are botanists, chemists, geologists, astronomers, and many more! The different kinds of scientists are named for what they study.

toxicology is the study of how chemicals hurt living things.

physics is the study of energy - light, sound, heat, electricity, and motion.

pathology is the study of examining body tissues to diagnose health proglems.

meteorology is the study of the weather.

geology is the study of rocks and the earth.

chemistry is the study of the elements (like carbon) and their compounds (like carbon dioxide).

biochemistry - if you combine biology and chemistry, you get biochemistry - the chemistry of living things.

astronomy is the study of stars, planets, moons, and everything in space.

Here are a few of the more common sciences: There are a lot of different branches of science.

Scientists use the scientific method to learn about the world.

Science is a way of organizing what we already know and learning more by experiments.