Planet Earth
Earth & Environmental Science V1053y
Goals of the course are to teach you:
- to understand how scientists think:
examples: identifying unanswered questions, formulating hypotheses, planning experiments, assembling chains of reasoning, drawing inferences from observations.
- to look at the natural earth with informed eyes (maybe even saving your life one of these days):
examples: Why are there mountains around the edges of
- to understand the impact of the earth on human affairs:
examples: Why is there so much oil in
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