GEOL 1402 - Earth Sciences for Non-Science Majors II

• Identify the influence of geologic and hydrologic processes on Earth’s surface.
• Describe the causes and effects of tectonic, meteorological, oceanographic, and astronomical hazards.
• Relate climate change to changes in tectonic configurations, astronomical relationships and atmospheric composition.
• Discuss potential effects of climate variability on Earth systems, including biological systems.
• Recognize how scientific models represent an abstraction of complex systems, such as ocean circulation and climate variability.
• Describe natural resources used by humans and their occurrence and extraction.
• Discuss the effects of renewable and nonrenewable resource development and sustainability.
• Locate on maps and/or photographs localities susceptible to tectonic, meteorological, and oceanographic hazards.
• Discuss methods of hazard prevention and mitigation such as early warning techniques, construction methods, and civil planning.
• Describe contributing factors to past and current climate change.
• Analyze effects of climate variability on geological and biological systems.
• Analyze diverse sources of data that document climate variability such as ice cores, dendrochronology, fossils, and pollen.
• Relate the distribution of fossil fuel, metal and nonmetal resources to geologic processes.
• Describe the methods of extraction of natural resources and their effect on the environment.
• Describe renewable resources and methods of sustainability.