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Week 1
Homework
2. Minerals: Building Blocks
of Rocks
Week 2
Homework
3. Rocks: Materials of the
Solid Earth
ref: rock cycle pdf
Week 3
Homework (reference
1)
20. Climate
4.
Weathering, Soil,
Week
4 Homework
4.
Mass Wasting
Week
5 Homework
5.
Running Water and Groundwater
Food for thought drinking water
Weeks 6
18. Air Pressure and Wind
17. Moisture, Clouds, and
Precipitation
6. Glaciers, Deserts, and Wind
19. Weather Patterns and
Severe Storms
Term Essay title due
Weeks 7 & 8
7. Earthquakes and Earth's
Interior
8. Plate Tectonics
9. Volcanoes and Other
Igneous Activity
10. Mountain Building
Weeks 9 & 10
11. Geologic Time
16. Atmosphere: Comp., Structure, Temp.
12 Earth's History: A Brief
Summary
Term Essay annotated bibliography due
Weeks 11 & 12
13 The
Ocean Floor
14. Ocean Water and Ocean Life
15. The Dynamic Ocean
Beach a River of Sand (Film)
Weeks 13 & 14
21. Origin of Modern Astronomy
E_homework:
How can you determine True North?
22. Touring Our Solar
System
23.
Light, Astronomical Observations, Sun
Term Essay to be handed in. |
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Finals week comprehensive MCQ optional TEST
Chapters 2- 23
THIS IS AN
OPEN BOOK TEST
(to replace marks of two class meetings)
(You do not have to come
to the
college to
take this
CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING (discontinued)
[Prehistory
was
discovered
by Hutton, 1782, and this gave birth to the
natural sciences of
geology
and, 50 years later,
to Darwinian evolutionary biology]
(omit the following)
1. Intro. to Earth Science
24. Beyond Our Solar System
[To see where
astronomy was, as late as 1892, as regards
any understanding of the universe, read
John Joly XII. A SPECULATION AS TO A
PRE-MATERIAL UNIVERSE, pages
288 - 301]
Your final grade will be based on:
Attendance 5%
Term essay (on a topic relevant to the course) 10%
Class tests 85%
Please
note: Your running grade is the minimum
you can receive and it can be greatly changed
by handing in your Term Essay if you still haven't
AND by taking the online optional final
Dr. Rance - Office hours in M230 Spring 2010
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 12:00-12:50 a.m.
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