Physical Geology Textbook
Offered By: Study.com
Course Description
Overview
Replace your traditional physical geology textbooks with this comprehensive and interesting textbook replacement course. Engage your students and help them get better grades in class by providing them with the flexible, mobile-friendly video and text lessons and quizzes in this course.
Syllabus
- Ch 1. Introduction to Geology
- Ch 2. Earth Materials
- Ch 3. Mineral Types, Properties and Uses
- Ch 4. Earth and Celestial Rocks
- Ch 5. Igneous Rocks
- Ch 6. Sedimentary Rocks: A Deeper Look
- Ch 7. Metamorphic Rocks: A Deeper Look
- Ch 8. Rock Deformation and Mountain Building
- Ch 9. Weathering and Erosion
- Ch 10. Running Water
- Ch 11. Ground Water
- Ch 12. Glaciers
- Ch 13. Oceans
- Ch 14. Deserts and Wind
- Ch 15. Water Balance
- Ch 16. The Universe
- Ch 17. Geologic Time
- Ch 18. Earth's Spheres and Internal Structure
- Ch 19. Atmospheric Sciences
- Ch 20. Earthquakes
- Ch 21. Plate Tectonics
- Ch 22. Energy Resources
- Ch 23. Renewable & Nonrenewable Resources
- Ch 24. Economic Geology & Mineral Resources
- Ch 25. Human Impact on the Environment
- Ch 26. Environmental Sustainability
- Ch 27. Environmental Risk Analysis
- Ch 28. Ethical and Political Processes of the Environment
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