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(All topics are taught at High School level with some Math A (algebra, geometry))

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Current Course Syllabus

1) Introduction to Earth's Changing Environment:

Lab Safety

Observations

Density: Density=Mass/Volume

The Changing Environment

Human Interaction with the Environment

2) Measuring the Earth

Size and Shape of the Earth: History, Estimations, and Measurements

Spheres of the Earth: Inner Core to the Exosphere

Locating Positions on Earth: The North Star, Earth's Rotation, Latitude and Longitude

Fields: Earth fields including Temperature, Pressure, and Magnetism

Mapping Earth's Surface

3) Earth Materials-Minerals, Rocks, and Mineral Resources

Minerals: Identification, Formation, Properties,  and Chemistry

Rocks: Identification, Properties, Petrogenesis, and Chemistry

Mineral Resources and Uses: Mining, Ores, Industrial applications, and Gems

4) Earth's Dynamic Crust

Dynamic and Static models of Earth's Interior and Exterior

Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Mountains, and Ocean Floor Topography

Plate Tectonic theory

Mapping Stratigraphic Rock Units

5) Interpreting Earth's History

Time Scales

Evolution of Earth and Life

Relative and Absolute Dating Methods of Fossils and Rocks

Correlation of Rock Units

Creating a Timeline of Earth's History using Fossils and the Rock Record

6) Landscape Development 

Landscape Regions

The Rock Cycle, The Carbon Dioxide Cycle

Mountain Building, Weathering, and Climate Change

7) Earth in Space

Evolutionary Theories of the Universe and Solar System

Models of the Universe, Milky Way Galaxy, and the Solar System

Apparent motions and Earth's motions

Earth's Satellite

Electromagnetic Energy and Spectroscopy

Astronomy 101: Constellations, and the HR Diagram

Insolation and the Seasons

8) Weather

Atmospheric Variables and Direct Measurements

Hadley Cells, Jet Stream, Prevailing Winds, and the Coriolis effect

Adiabatic Changes & the Orographic effect

Air Masses and Fronts

Severe Weather

Putting it all together: Short Term Weather Prediction

9) Environmental Science

Water Pollution and budgets

Hydrology

Environmental Effects of Excess Consumerism and Taxing Earth Resources

Local pollution problems

 

 

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