Geoscience

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


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