Out of class reading

For my out of class reading for this week, I read chapter one in my introduction to geology text book. I found the first chapter interesting. It talked about the history of geology, scientific methods, the Earth, and rocks. The chapter has pictures and charts that I thought were really helpful. The pictures and charts also made it more interesting because they gave you something to look at that went along with what was being said in each section of the chapter. The charts gave additional information that was not in the actual reading, and the pictures had captions explaining what the picture was. By reading this chapter I learned some things that I did not know before. For example, I learned more about the theory of plate tectonics and the rock cycle. There was one part of the chapter that I really did not like reading. It was about the Big Bang Theory. I think the reason why I did not like reading this section was because I do not believe that the world was created that way. There was something else in the chapter that I am not sure if I agree with. It says that the Earth is about fourteen billion years old. I do not know. It might be that old, but that does not really seem like a reasonable number to me. There are little grey boxes throughout the chapter with the question "Did you know?" above them. Inside the boxes there are interesting facts. I liked that these boxes were included in the chapter.