PLANET EARTH

  


Last edited on Jan  05, 2003
 
 
WEEK 
TOPIC 
ASSIGNMENT 
 1 EARTH MATERIALS, TIME AND HISTORY  CHAPTER 1, 
CHAPTER 3, AND CHAPTER 9,  186-200
 2 A. IGNEOUS ROCKS -- VARIETY AND SIMILARITY 

B. IGNEOUS ROCKS -- UNDERSTANDING STRUCTURES

CHAPTER 4
 3 VOLCANOES AND VOLCANIC EXPLOSIONS CHAPTER 5
 4 A. WEATHERING AND THE PRODUCTION OF SEDIMENTS

B. THE CHARACTER OF ERODING STREAMS 

CHAPTER 6 to p.131

CHAPTER 13

 5 STREAMS -- CHANGES IN TIME AND SPACE CHAPTER 13
 6 GLACIERS -- ICE AND EROSION

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS -- VARIETY AND SIMILARITY

CHAPTER 15 to p. 346

CHAPTER 7

 7 USING THE ROCK RECORD TO INFER SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENT CHAPTER 7 
STRUCTURE AND DEFORMATION IN SEDIMENTARY ROCKS-- MAPPING BELOW THE SURFACE CHAPTER 10
STRUCTURE AND DEFORMATION IN SEDIMENTARY ROCKS-- MAPPING BELOW THE SURFACE CHAPTER 10
10 TIME -- THE AGE OF ROCKS AND THE EARTH CHAPTER 9 
11 METAMORPHIC ROCKS AND THE GEOLOGY OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA CHAPTER 8 
12  GEOLOGIC MAPS -- SKILLS OF OBSERVATION, ANALYSIS, AND INTERPRETATION .
13 GEOLOGIC MAPS -- SKILLS OF OBSERVATION, ANALYSIS, AND INTERPRETATION .
14  A. PLATE TECTONICS -- EVIDENCE FROM THE OCEAN FLOOR

B. DIVERGENT BOUNDARIES

CHAPTER 17, p. 390 -403
CHAPTER 20 to p. 469
15 A. PLATE TECTONICS -- PATTERNS OF SEISMICITY

B. CONVERGENT BOUNDARIES

CHAPTER 18 

CHAPTER 20





















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