Is biology an earth science?

Question

Can you please name all the branches of Earth Science? or at least the major ones.

Answer 1

There are four major disciplines in earth sciences, namely geography, geology, geophysics and geodesy. These major disciplines use physics, chemistry, biology, chronology and mathematics to build a quantitative understanding of the principal areas or spheres of the Earth system.

So biology in and of itself is not an earth science, though it is related.

Answer 2

No, biology is a life science.

Earth sciences include geography, geology, geophysics and geodesy.  

Answer 3

Biology isn't the study of earth science. It's the study of life.

Answer 4

Not really. Earth Science (aka planetary science, geoscience, etc) refers to all the sciences that relate to planet Earth, but mainly includes geology, geophysics, geodesy, and geography. But if you study earth science you'll definitely study biology, along with chemistry, hydrology, astronomy, physics, and math.

Answer 5

Biology (from Greek βιολογία - βίος, bios, "life"; -λογία, -logia) is a branch of the natural sciences, and is the study of living organisms and how they interact with their environment. Biology deals with every aspect of life in a living organism. Biology examines the structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution of living things. It classifies and describes organisms, their functions, how species come into existence, and the interactions they have with each other and with the natural environment. Four unifying principles form the foundation of modern biology: cell theory, evolution, genetics and homeostasis.

Biology as a separate science was developed in the nineteenth century as scientists discovered that organisms shared fundamental characteristics. Biology is now a standard subject of instruction at schools and universities around the world, and over a million papers are published annually in a wide array of biology and medicine journals.[1]

Most biological sciences are specialized disciplines. Traditionally, they are grouped by the type of organism being studied: botany, the study of plants; zoology, the study of animals; and microbiology, the study of microorganisms. The fields within biology are further divided based on the scale at which organisms are studied and the methods used to study them: biochemistry examines the fundamental chemistry of life; molecular biology studies the complex interactions of systems of biological molecules; cellular biology examines the basic building block of all life, the cell; physiology examines the physical and chemical functions of the tissues and organ systems of an organism; and ecology examines how various organisms and their environment interrelate.