The purpose of this study is to analyse the type of student's misconceptions on earth science concepts and its sources in grades 7 to 9. The test questionnaire was develpoed to investigate their misconceptions to the selected students. The following conclusions were drawn. 1) The sellected students had the various types of misconceptions on earth science concepts. 2) There were no grade differences in the patterns of the misconceptions. 3) The sources of student's misconceptions were resulted from the poor development of cognitive structures, the influences of environments, the error of information processing. 4) The misconceptions were not changed and corrected easily.

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