May sound silly--- What exactly is a "lab" science?

<p>Can someone help me out?</p>

<p>Biology, physics, chemistry...</p>

<p>I'd say it's any science course that has you doing labs/experiments: biology, chemistry, physics. I can't think an example of a "non-lab science" though...</p>

<p>^ astronomy, maybe? :/</p>

<p>^ Ah, right, maybe. I'm just so used to thinking about the traditional bio/chem/physics/related fields :P</p>

<p>But there are non-lab physics, chem, and bio as well. At my school, the amount of time spent in the class constitutes a lab designation.</p>

<p>Ah, okay. My school never talks about a lab designation.</p>

<p>A lab science is any science course that requires a lab component to go with it - (there are also non-lab science courses)</p>

<p>physical science, earth-space science are both examples of non-lab based sciences. ditto the rest.</p>