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GE-125 EARTH SCIENCE

 

Finals week comprehensive MCQ optional TEST
Chapters 2- 23   
 THIS IS AN OPEN BOOK TEST
(to replace marks of ONE additional class meeting to add to the three that have not been counted)
(You do not have to come to the college to take this)

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


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


    

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

(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  100%

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