Science 11

1. EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCE
PERSONALITIES WHO
CONTRIBUTED IN THE FIELDS
OF EARTH SCIENCE

2. LEARNING COMPETENCY:
Show the cotributions of
personalities/people on the
understanding on the Earth systems.

3. #1 ALFRED
WEGENER

4. WHO IS ALFRED WEGENER?
Germanmetereologystand geophysicict
Knownforhistheory:
Kontinentalversbungorsimplythe
“ContinentalDriftTheory”
SupercontinentPangaea
Alfred Wegener

5. #2 JAMES
HUTTON

6. WHO IS JAMES HUTTON?
Consideredas the“Father ofModern
Geology”
Knownforhistheoryofgradualism
ChangesinEarth’scrustdueto slow
continuous processes
James Hutton

7. #3 CARL LUDWIG
REICHENBACH

8. WHO IS CARL LUDWIG
REICHENBACH?
Prussian chemist,geologist, and
metallurgist
Contributed to thetheoryofEarth’s
magnetism
“ThemagneticfieldofEarthcamefrom
magneticironfrommeteorites”
Carl Ludwig
Reichenbach

9. #4 EDUARD SUES

10. WHO IS CARL EDUARD SUES?
Austrian geologist and geographer
Became the professor of paleontology at
Universityof Viennain1856
Known fortheorizing Gondwanaland, thesouthern
portion of anancient supercontinent
Known for introducing theterm“Biosphere”
Eduard Sues

11. #5 ALEXANDER
VON HUMBOLDT

12. WHO IS ALEXANDER VON
HUBOLDT?
Prussian geographer and explorer
Became the firstperson to understand the
long-term included effectsof human activities inrelation
to climate variability (insimple term,theeffectsof man’s
activities to climate change
Theorized that volcanoes arenot randomly
distributed but could belocated inamountain rage
Alexander Von
Humboldt

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