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Why do earth scientist need the principle of uniformitarianism in order to make predictions?

Asked by Brycequach, Last updated: Jan 07, 2024

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A. Samuel

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A. Samuel, Content Manager, Masters in Marketing and accounting, Florida

Answered Feb 04, 2021

It is important to know the theory of uniformitarianism so that you will understand why this is often used in creating theories. This theory states that the Earth has changed in uniform ways. This means that the way that it has been changing has always been predictable. Whenever there are some new changes that occur, the only way to know more details about it is to check out how the earth has changed or has shown a change in the past.

They say that this will be effective in knowing the overall history of the earth. The intensity of the way that the earth has changed according to this theory has also remained the same. By knowing these details, there are some theories that will be safer to conclude because they have based it on the earth’s history.

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J. Pollock

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J. Pollock, Science Professor, Los Angeles

Answered Feb 01, 2021

Uniforitarinianism is a theory. This theory states that Earth does change, and when it does change, it does so in a uniform matter. Therefore, the change that is happening now has happened before. Knowing this, a scientist can use research to study the changes that happened to Earth in the past and apply them to prepare for current and future changes.

One thing that is important is the issue of climate change. As the Earth is growing hotter, there are many changes that are occurring. However, we can look to past changes in the Earth's temperature and apply them to how we should adopt today.

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F. Daniel

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F. Daniel, Content Optimization Executive, Diploma in Journalism, California

Answered Jan 20, 2021

The theory of uniformitarianism is something that will be used in order to make predictions. You should know what this theory is first in order to understand some important details. The theory states that the earth has always changed in uniform ways. They believe that by knowing the details about the present, they can get to know more details about the past.

It is said that there are some things about the earth geologically that have already been observed before that are still being observed today. There may be changes that have occurred but by being aware of these changes, details about the past can become more evident.

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brycequach

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Answered Sep 20, 2018

Because the theory of uniformitarianism takes into consideration that the same changes that are happening in the earth now were happening in the earth then. Thus we can use data on how the earth changed then to make predictions on how it will change in the future.
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