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TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
EARTH SCIENCE 101 LECTURE
PHYSICAL ECOLOGY
SCHEDULE for Fall Semester, 2008
Ticket # 20278 TTh 9:30 to 11:00 A.M. – S 101

Revised 10/26/09

This schedule is TENTATIVE! We may find that in-class discussions take longer than I had planned for some topics. Any adjustment to this schedule will be discussed in advance in class. Notice of changes will be announced in class and on my web page.

Week

Date

Topic

Reading

Quiz

1

8/18

 Introduction

 

  

ECOSYSTEM MODULE
 

8/20

 Film: Rachael Carson    

2

8/25

 Earth’s Environmental Problems

Ch. 1
pg 1-14

  
 

8/27

 Film: People Bomb    

3

9/1

 Population Growth & Urbanization and Managing the Environment

Ch. 1
14-18

 Geog. Quiz 1
Word Quiz 1 Chap. 10
9/1 - 9/3
 

9/3

 EXAM 1   Word Quiz 2 Chap. 6
9/5 - 9/7

HYDROSPHERE MODULE

4

9/8

 Hydrologic Cycle- Water Management

Ch. 6

 
 

9/10

 Ground Water

Ch. 10

  

5

9/15

 Surface Water

Ch. 16

Word Quiz 3 Chap. (15) 16
9/14 - 9/16
 

9/17

 Dams   Geog. Quiz 2

6

9/22

 Waste Management

Ch. 15

 
 

9/24

 Coastal Ocean Environment

Ch. 7

  

ATMOSPHERE MODULE

7

9/29

 Atmosphere & Desert

Ch. 9

 
 

10/1

 FIELD TRIP

 

 

8

10/6

 EXAM 2   Word Quiz 4 Chap. 2 Min.
10/4 - 10/6

EARTH SYSTEM MODULE
 

10/8

 Minerals

Ch. 2
pg. 22-31

 Word Quiz 5 Chap. 2 Rks.
10/14 - 10/16

9

10/13

     Word Quiz 6 Chap. 2 Geol. Time
10/11 - 10/13
Geog. Quiz 3
 

10/15

 Rocks – Igneous & Sedimentary

Ch. 2
pg 31 – 37

  

10

10/20

 Rocks – Sedimentary & Metamorphic

Ch. 2
pg 37 – 38

  
 

10/22

 Geologic Time

Ch. 2
pg 38-50

  

11

10/27

 Geologic Time   Geog. Quiz 4
 

10/29

     Word Quiz 7 Chap. 3
11/4 - 11/6

12

11/3

 EXAM 3

 

Word Quiz 8
Chap. 8
11/4 - 11/6
 

11/5

 Plate Tectonics

Ch. 3

  

13

11/10

 Plate Tectonics

 

 Word Quiz 9 Chap. 4
11/18 - 11/20
Geog. Quiz 5
 

11/12

 Weathering

Ch. 11

 

14

11/17

 Mass Wasting

Ch. 8

 
 

11/19

 EXAM 4

 

  

15

11/24

 Earthquakes

Ch. 4

Word Quiz 10 Chap. 5
11/22 - 11/24
Geog. Quiz 6
 

11/26

 HOLIDAY - Thanksgiving Day    

16

12/1

 Volcanoes – Film: The Volcano Watchers

Ch. 5

 
 

12/3

 Volcanoes    

RESOURCE MODULE

17

12/8

 Mineral Resources and Society

Ch. 12

 Geog. Quiz 7
 

12/10

 Energy and Environment – Review

Ch. 13 & 14

 

18

12/15

 FINAL EXAM – 10:00 TO 12:00 a.m.    

The College has not announced the dates of Final Exams.  The date and time of this Final Exam is Tentative.  Do not make holiday plans based upon this listing.  The School will issue a final schedule for Final Exams later in the Semester.