| A | B |
|---|
| biologist | studies living things |
| botanist | studies plants |
| zoologist | studies animals |
| astonomer | studies the stars, planets and space |
| organic chemist | studies chemicals that are of organic origin |
| petrologist | studies rocks |
| palaeontologist | studies fossils |
| vulcanologist | studies volcanoes |
| seismologist | studies earthquakes |
| palynologist | studies spores and pollens |
| vertebrate palaeontologist | studies extinct vertebrate animals such as dinosaurs |
| microbiologist | studies very small living things |
| forensic scientist | applies science to the court and justice system |
| optometrist | looks after the health of our eyes |
| mycologist | studies fungi |
| medical physicist | applies physics to studying the body |
| meteorologist | studies the weather |
| oceanographer | studies the ocean's currents and contents |
| ecologist | studies the relationship between plants and animals |
| marine biologist | studies living things in the ocean |
