Earth and Environmental Science
Course Overview: “The basics”
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Earth systems
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- Processes
- Interrelationship
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Significance of the Earth systems including models and theories
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How to predict future changes in these systems eg hydrosphere
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Energy transfer in Earth’s systems
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- Necessary to investigate the importance of energy transfer in order to see how and why they change with Man’s intervention.
- Models to predict changes to the systems characteristics.
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Renewable and non-renewable resources
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- How the use and disposal of them affects the systems.
- Need for sustainable resources to maintain quality of life.
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Cause and effect of naturally occurring hazards
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- The way they affect the Earth systems
- Management and mitigation
- Human impact and how it increases naturally occurring hazards.
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Logical progression
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- learn about systems
- learn about energy transfer in system
- learn about resources that use energy from system
- learn about human impact that changes these systems and cause hazards to life.
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