Applying Occams razor to determine Earths internal structure

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Applying Occams razor to determine Earths
internal structure
V 3.1 - Prepared by Michael Hubenthal
Adapted from Braile, 2000, Hubenthal, 2006
DLESE Teaching Boxes, 2008
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What is inside ?
How do you know what is inside?
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What is inside here?
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How do you know what is inside?
Think, Write, Pair, Share
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Occams Razor - All other things being equal, the
simplest solution is the best
Based on your evidence what is beneath our feet?
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Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Why are model important in science?
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Could this help us test our model?
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Theoreticians
Seismologist
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Theoreticians
Seismologist
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Earths surface
Center of the Earth
Right
Left
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Scale model of a homogeneous Earth
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Seismologists
Theoreticians
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Sample set of class data
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P wave shadow zone
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