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GE-125 EARTH SCIENCE

Grades

Please note: The registrar will allow this course to be run as  hybrid.
We meet in class on Wednesdays from 3:10-4:25 pm. and you will be required to
spend an equivalent time each week on homework assignments (see below)
I will grade your work and return it to you at the next meeting.

Late submissions will not be graded and will count as absences. 

 
QUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE of the City University of New York
Instructor: Dr. Hugh Rance
Textbook: Earth Science 12th Edition by Tarbuck/Lutgens
GOOD ATTENDANCE AND YOUR PARTICIPATION IN CLASS DISCUSSIONS IS EXPECTED

    

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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

Week 6  Homework
5. Groundwater
Food for thought drinking water

Week 7  Homework
6. Glaciers, Deserts, and Wind

Week 8  Homework
7. Plate Tectonics

Week 9  Homework
8.  Earthquakes and Earth's Interior

Week 10  Homework
16. Atmosphere: Comp., Structure, Temp.

Week 11  Homework
13 The Ocean Floor

Week 12 (field work)
How can you determine True North?

Volcanoes and Other Igneous Activity
Iceland eruption low resolution mp3

Week 13 Homework
22. Touring Our Solar System

10. Mountain Building

Weeks
11. Geologic Time

12 Earth's History: A Brief Summary


    



14. Ocean Water and Ocean Life
15. The Dynamic Ocean
Beach a River of Sand (Film)

Weeks 
21. Origin of Modern Astronomy E_homework:
How can you determine True North?

23. Light, Astronomical Observations, Sun

 

Finals week comprehensive MCQ optional TEST
Chapters 2- 23   
CLOSED

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
   

[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:
Class tests  50% Homework 50%

Dr. Rance - Office hours in M230 Spring 2010
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 12:00-12:50 a.m.