Fall 2010 Schedule:

Section: 327107

Mom-Wed  9:30-10:45 a.m.

Room:  A-171

 

Section: 327108

Tues-Thur 9:30-10:45 a.m..

Room:  A-171

 

Section: 327109

Thur Nite: 6:00-9:15 p.m..

Room:  D204

 

 

Fall 2010 Syllabus:
Syllabus Online

Download .doc file

Fall 2010 Grading Outline


12 Edition Tarbuck Cover
12th Edition Tarbuck

Fall 2010 Grading Outline


Tarbuck Textbook Cover
Tarbuck 11 Web Site

Fall 2010 Grading Outline


Multiple Choice Test Menu
11th Edition Text

Power Points-11th Edition
(See Instructor's Emails)

12th Edition Posted on Blackboard
(Not posted as of 9/1/08)

Publisher's Companion Website for
Earth Science 11th Edition


Video Menu
Video Clip Projects

Chapter 1:
Online: Chapter 1 Vocabulary
Chapter 1 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 1 Vocabulary List (.doc file)
Chap 1 Online Multiple Choice
Chapter 1 Animations:
Nebular Hypothesis of Solar System Formation
Summary    Key Concepts     Links

Geology
Chapters 2-12

Chapter 2: Minerals
Online: Chapter 2 Vocabulary
Chapter 2 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 2 Vocabulary List (.doc file)
Chap 2 Online Multiple Choice
No Chapter 2 Animations

Chapter 3: Rocks
Online: Chapter 3 Vocabulary
Chapter 3 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 3 Vocabulary List (.doc file)
Chap 3 Online Multiple Choice
Chapter 3 Animations:
Metamorphic Rock Foliation
Foliation
Fractional Crystallization
Using Graphs To Understand Mantle Melting
Understanding Tuttle and Bowen's Data

Chapter 4: Weathering
Online: Chapter 4 Vocabulary
Chapter 4 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 4 Vocabulary List (.doc file)
Chap 4 Online Multiple Choice
Chapter 4 Animations:
Mass Movements
Uplift and Mass Movement
Physical Weathering

Chapter 5: Groundwater
Online: Chapter 5 Vocabulary
Chapter 5 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 5 Vocabulary List (.doc file)
Chap 5 Online Multiple Choice
Tillery Animations
Air Masses in Motion
Artesian Aquafer
Hydrological Cycle
Chapter 5 Animations:
Formation of a Cone of Depression
Earth's Water and the Hydrologic Cycle
Hydrologic Cycle
Floodplain and Natural Levee Development
Oxbow Lakes 1
Oxbow Lakes 2
Stream Processes and Floodplain Development
How Streams Move Sediment
Forming Stream Terraces
Formation of a Water Table

Chapter 6: Glaciers
Online: Chapter 6 Vocabulary
Chapter 6 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 6 Vocabulary List (.doc file)
Chap 6 Online Multiple Choice
Chapter 6 Animations:
Formation of Cross Bedding
Glacial Isostasy
Flowing of Ice Within a Glacier
Glacial Advance and Retreat
Glacial Processes and Budget 1
Glacial Processes 2

Chapter 7: Plate Tectonics
Online: Chapter 7 Vocabulary
Chapter 7 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 7 Vocabulary List (.doc file)

Chap 7 Online Multiple Choice
(Chapter 7 multiple choice comes up Chapter 8 on the text website because the test is based on the 11th edition)
Chapter 7 Animations
Understanding Inclination and Declination
Convection in a Lava Lamp
Convection and Tectonics
Convergent Margins: India-Asia Collision
Forming a Divergent Boundary
Breakup of Pangaea
Plate Boundary Features
Plate Motions Through Time
Motion at Plate Boundaries
Relative and Absolute Motion
Seafloor Spreading and Seafloor Magnetization
Seafloor Spreading and Plate Boundaries/a>
Transform Faults
Motion at Transform Boundaries
Faults
Fault Motion
Dry Compaction and Liquefaction
Dimensions of the Mantle and Core

Chapter 8: Earthquakes
Online: Chapter 8 Vocabulary
Chapter 8 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 8 Vocabulary List (.doc file)
Chap 8 Online Multiple Choice
(Chapter 8 multiple choice comes up Chapter 7 on the text website because the test is based on the 11th edition)
Chapter 8 Animations:
Elastic Rebound
Hot Spot Volcano Tracks
Earthquake Waves
Seismic Wave Motion
Seismographs 1
Tsunami
Earthquake-1989-1     Quick Time Movie
Earthquake-1989-2     Quick Time Movie
Earthquake-1989-3     Quick Time Movie
Elastic Rebound        Quick Time Movie
San Andreas Fault      Quick Time Movie
Seismic Waves          Quick Time Movie
s-wave Shadow Zone  Quick Time Movie


Chapter 9: Volcanoes
Online: Chapter 9 Vocabulary
Chapter 9 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 9 Vocabulary List (.doc file)
Chap 9 Online Multiple Choice
Chapter 9 Animations:
How Calderas Form
Crater Lake
Intrusive Igneous Features
Forming Igneous Features and Landforms
Plate Tectonics and Magma Generation
How Magma Rises
Debris Avalanche and eruption
      of Mount St. Helens, Washington

Tectonic Settings and Volcanic Activity
Volcano Types

Mount St Helens-1   Quick Time Movie
Mount St Helens-2   Quick Time Movie
Mount St Helens-3   Quick Time Movie
Surtsey Island          Quick Time Movie
Sea Floor Spreading  Quick Time Movie

 


Fall 2006 Syllabus

Student Success:
Active Learning
Learning Styles

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Oceanogophy
Chapters 13-15

Chapter 13:
Online: Chapter 13 Vocabulary
Chapter 13 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 13 Vocabulary List (.doc file)
Chap 13 Online Multiple Choice
Chapter 13 Animations:
None

Chapter 14:
Online: Chapter 14 Vocabulary
Chapter 14 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 14 Vocabulary List (.doc file)
Chap 14 Online Multiple Choice
Chapter 14 Animations
:
None

Chapter 15:
Online: Chapter 15 Vocabulary
Chapter 15 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 15 Vocabulary List (.doc file)
Chap 15 Online Multiple Choice
Chapter 15 Animations:
Beach Drift 1
Beach Drift 2
Breakwater 1
Breakwater 2
Ocean Circulation
Trade Winds
Shore Sediments
Tidal Cycle 1
Tidal Cycle 2
Wave Motion 1
Wave Motion 2
Wave Properties

Meteorology
(Wonders of Weather Video)
Chapters 16-20

Chapter 16:
Online: Chapter 16 Vocabulary
Chapter 16 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 16 Vocabulary List (.doc file)
Chap 16 Online Multiple Choice
Chapter 16 Animations:
Earth-Sun Relations

Chapter 17:
Online: Chapter 17 Vocabulary
Chapter 17 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 17 Vocabulary List (.doc file)
Chap 17 Online Multiple Choice
Chapter 17 Animations:
Atmospheric Stability
Water Phases

Chapter 18:
Online: Chapter 18 Vocabulary
Chapter 18 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 18 Vocabulary List (.doc file)
Chap 18 Online Multiple Choice
Chapter 18 Animations:
Atmospheric Energy Balance
Coriolis Effect
Global Winds 1
Global Winds 2
Jet Stream and Rossby Waves
El Niņo and La Niņa.
Weather Patterns
Wind Pattern Development

Chapter 19:
Online: Chapter 19 Vocabulary
Chapter 19 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 19 Vocabulary List (.doc file)
Chap 19 Online Multiple Choice
Chapter 19 Animations:
Cold Fronts and Warm Fronts
Cyclones and Anticyclones
Hurricanes
Midlatitude Cyclones
Midlatitude Productivity
Tornados

Chapter 20:
Online: Chapter 20 Vocabulary
Chapter 20 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 20 Vocabulary List (.doc file)
Chap 20 Online Multiple Choice
Chapter 20 Animations:
Global Warming
Ozone Depletion


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Geology Continued

Chapter 10: Mountain Building
Online: Chapter 10 Vocabulary
Chapter 10 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 10 Vocabulary List (.doc file)
Chap 10 Online Multiple Choice
Chapter 10 Animations:
Erosion of Deformed Sedimentary Rock
Folding
Folding Rock
Graphing Stress and Strain
Terrane Formation

Chapter 11:
Online: Chapter 11 Vocabulary
Chapter 11 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 11 Vocabulary List (.doc file)
Chap 11 Online Multiple Choice

Chapter 11 Animations:
Angular Unconformities and Nonconformities
Kelvin Calculation of Earth Age
Radioactive Decay.
Relative Geologic Dating
Relative Dating Principles
Unconformity Types

Chapter 12:
Online: Chapter 12 (not available)
Chapter 12 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 12 Vocabulary List (.doc file)
Chap 12 Online Multiple Choice
No Chapter 12 Animations:




 

Astronomy
Chapters 21-24

Chapter 21:
Online: Chapter 21 Vocabulary
Chapter 21 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 21 Vocabulary List (.doc file)
Chap 21 Online Multiple Choice

Chapter 22:
Online: Chapter 22 Vocabulary
Chapter 22 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 22 Vocabulary List (.doc file)
Chap 22 Online Multiple Choice

Chapter 23:
Online: Chapter 23 Vocabulary
Chapter 23 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 23 Vocabulary List (.doc file)
Chap 23 Online Multiple Choice


Chapter 24:
Online: Chapter 24 Vocabulary

Chapter 24 Vocabulary List (.htm file)
Chapter 24 Vocabulary List (.doc file)

Chap 24 Online Multiple Choice

 

Links to Earth Science

(on the Web)

General

Explorations in Earth Science
Earth Science Picture of the Day
Earth Science Quiz
Earth Science Animations

Astronomy

Hubble Photographs
Earth Moon Viewer
The None Planets
What's In the Sky
Satellite Sightrings

Geology

Paleomap Project
Sand
Geologic Time
Geological Time Machine
National Earthquake Information Center
Plate Tectonics
Continetial Drift

Meteorology

Ozone Depletion
Maryland Earthcast
National Hurricane Center
The Weather Channel
World Climate

Oceanography

El Nino` Theme Page
Tsunami
Tide and Current Predictor
Ocean Planet

Other Links

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