This course provides students the opportunity to explore the concepts of earth, life, and physical science. The successful student will acquire a fundamental understanding of the major concepts outlined by the Ohio State Standards and Benchmarks. Describe how temperature and precipitation determine climatic zones, read and interpret weather maps, analyze data on the availability of fresh water that is essential for life and for most industrial and agricultural processes and the understanding of global warming. The students will investigate how organisms or populations may interact with one another through symbiotic relationships and how some species have become so adapted to each other that neither could survive without the other. Students will also acquire knowledge of physical science with concepts of how an object can have potential energy due to its position or chemical composition and can have kinetic energy due to its motion, how matter can change forms, and trace energy transformation in a simple closed system. Students will acquire the knowledge of the atmosphere and how the moon, earth and planets move and their different characteristics. Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to conduct investigations and apply mathematical skills in analyzing variables of data using basic scientific inquiry skills.