Planet Earth

Earth & Environmental Science V1053y

Goals:

• to think like scientists:

  examples: identifying unanswered questions, formulating hypotheses, planning experiments, assembling chains of reasoning, drawing inferences from observations.

• to look at the natural physical earth with informed eyes:

  examples: Why are there mountains around the edges of North America, and a flat part in the middle? Why does the earth have oceans and continents? What causes volcanoes?

• to understand the impact of the earth on human affairs:

  examples: Why is there so much oil in Saudi Arabia? Why are there destructive earthquakes in California, Mexico, Japan, Armenia?

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Updated: January 9, 2003

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