Geoscience

environmental, natural science and human action

What you'll learn

To learn about geological structures, rocks, minerals and natural resources

To understand about water resources and human actions affecting the conservation of drinking water

To understand how climate change will affect life on Earth

To use geoscience knowledge to produce educational articles and materials

Requirements

Natural Sciences taught in high school

Description

In this course we present the contents on: the dimensions of the planet Earth. The structures of crust, mantle and core. The elements of the earth's crust. The definitions of minerals, rocks and ores. Mineralogy. The characteristics and types of minerals. Petrology and the origins of rocks. The magmatic, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. Ores and mineral deposits. Theories about the formation of the Earth's crust. Alfred Wegener's Continental Drift. Tectonic plates and theories about the expansion of the oceanic crust. The great forms of earthly relief. The mountains. The plateaus. The depressions and the plains. Watershed. The soil conservation. The deforestation and human action on the slopes. The forms of soil erosion. Pedology and soil formation. Physical weathering in the desert and cold regions. The chemical weathering in equatorial and tropical regions. The pedogenesis the endopedic fauna. The horizons of the ground. The morphological characteristics of the soils: color and texture. The composition of the Earth's atmosphere. The greenhouse effect. The general circulation of the atmosphere. Hadley, Ferrel and Polar cells. The breezes and the monsoon. The waters of the continents. The river channels and morphologies. Water flows and drainage basins. The floods and large volumes of water. The groundwater. The aquifers. Confined Aquifer.

Overview

Section 1: Geology and Geomorphology

Lecture 1 Earth's Structure

Lecture 2 Minerals, Rocks and Ores Deposits

Lecture 3 Global tectonic and great structure's forms

Lecture 4 Landscapes of relief

Section 2: Soil, Climate and Hydrology

Lecture 5 Soil: formation and geographical distribution

Lecture 6 Atmosphere: composition, changes climate and systems air masses

Lecture 7 Hidrology: water in channels and dynamics

Undergraduate Engineering Students,Geography or Natural Sciences's teachers,Environmental Area's Professionals