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CLASS OUTLINE

WEEK 1: ORIGINS

WEEK 2: HISTORY

WEEK 3: EARTH STRUCTURE AND PLATE TECTONICS

WEEK 4: OCEAN BASINS

WEEK 5: SEDIMENTS/ EXAM 1

WEEK 6: WATER

WEEK 7: ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION

WEEK 8: OCEAN CIRCULATION

WEEK 9: WAVES

WEEK10: TIDES/ EXAM 2

WEEK11: COASTS

WEEK 12: LIFE IN THE OCEAN

WEEK13: PELAGIC COMMUNITIES

WEEK 14: BENTHIC COMMUNITIES

WEEK 15: USES AND ABUSES OF THE OCEAN/ REVIEW


PHYSICAL GEOLOGY

Week 1: An Introduction to Geology/ Plate Tectonics: A Scientific Revolution Unfolds

Week 2: Matter and Minerals / Igneous Rocks

Week 3: Volcanoes and Other Igneous Activity / Weathering

Week 4: Sedimentary Rocks

Week 5: Review / Exam 1

Week 6: Metamorphism and Metamorphic / Earthquakes

Week 7: Mass Wasting: The Work of Gravity / Running Water

Week 8: Groundwater

Week 9: Glaciers and Glaciation

Week 10: Review / Exam 2

Week 11: Global Climate Change

Week 12: Energy and Mineral Resources

Week 13: Shorelines

Week 14: Presentations

Week 15: Review

EARTH SCIENCE

Week 2 MINERALS: BUILDING BLOCKS OF ROCKS /
ROCKS: MATERIALS OF THE SOLID EARTH

Week 3 LANDSCAPES FASHIONED BY WATER

Week 4 GLACIAL AND ARID LANDSCAPES

Week 5 PLATE TECTONICS: A SCIENTIFIC THEORY UNFOLDS / EXAM 1

Week 6 RESTLESS EARTH: EARTHQUAKES, GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES, AND MOUNTAIN BUILDING

Week 7 FIRES WITHIN: IGNEOUS ACTIVITY

Week 8 GEOLOGIC TIME

Week 9 OCEANS: THE LAST FRONTIER

Week 10 THE RESTLESS OCEAN / EXAM 2

Week 11 HEATING THE ATMOSPHERE

Week 12 CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATION

Week 13 THE ATMOSPHERE IN MOTION

Week 14 WEATHER PATTERNS AND SEVERE WEATHER

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