Planet Earth
Earth & Environmental Science V1053y
Spring 2007 Schedule
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Topic |
Content Day |
Activity Day(s) |
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Introduction to the Laws of Physics and Chemistry that rule our Planet |
Jan 17 |
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Blue Planet chapter 1 = (BP: ch1) Planet Earth topic 1 = (PE: t1) |
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The Earth in Our Solar System |
Jan 22 |
Jan 24 |
BP: ch2 |
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Our Sun |
Jan 29 |
Jan 31 |
BP: ch3 |
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Plate Tectonics |
Feb 5 |
Feb 7 |
PE: t3 |
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Plate Tectonic Boundaries |
Feb 12 |
Feb 14 |
BP: ch4 |
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Earthquakes |
Feb 19 |
Feb 21 |
BP: ch5 |
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Volcanoes |
Feb 26 |
Feb 28 |
BP: ch7 |
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Life,
Black Smokers, Evolution |
Mar 5 |
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PE: t2 |
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March 7: MID TERM EXAM
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Continents |
Mar 19 |
Mar 21 |
PE: t4 |
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Mar 26 |
Mar 28 |
BP: ch8 |
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Climate |
Apr 2 |
Apr 4 |
BP: ch14 |
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Global Warming |
Apr 9 |
Apr 11 |
BP: ch20 |
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Energy & Resources |
Apr 16 |
Apr 18 |
BP: ch18 |
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Driving Forces |
Apr 23 |
Apr 25 |
PE: t5 |
Textbooks:
Please visit Labyrinth or your favorite
online bookseller to purchase a copy of Skinner, Porter and Botkin’s
text Blue Planet. This text
will also be available on reserve in the Columbia University Libraries.
Skinner, B. J., S. C. Porter and D. B. Botkin,
1999, Blue Planet, John Wiley and Sons.
We will also be reading online chapters from
my text, Planet Earth: An Introduction to Earth
Sciences, which will be posted for you to download from Courseworks. This is a later revision of
Anderson,
R. N., 1986, Marine Geology: A Planet Earth Perspective, John Wiley and
Sons.
Return to Planet Earth home page.
Check out the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Web Site.
Return to the Columbia University home page.
Updated: January 8, 2007
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