Category: Geology

assignment consists of one critical thinking question and two responses to two different questions from other students posted that week. Your question should pertain to the material covered in lecture. The purpose of these exercises is to develop abilities in critical thinking, learn how to use supporting evidence when making a claim, learn multiple perspectives…

Discussion: Time & Geology / 3 Fossil-based Field Trips 1. Post to this discussion and respond to two of your peers.There must be 24 hours between initial post and responses. This week’s discussion requires you to relate the topics covered in the Geologic TIme to a current geological event or condition. Check out the sites…

Artificial Selection and Silver Foxes In the 1950s, Dmitry Belyaev (Russian geneticist) and his team spent years breeding the silver fox (Vulpes vulpes) and selecting only those that showed the least fear of humans. After about ten generations of controlled breeding, the domesticated silver foxes no longer showed any fear of humans and often wagged…

Research a recent event that deals with some element of earth science that is covered in Modules 3-4 and post a summary discussing both the event and the unit topic it relates to. For our purposes here, news/events that have happened in the last 3 years are considered recent events. In your post, include which…

Use Simple Words. Give simple explanations nothing complicated. Now that you know California’s state rock and mineral(s), research the rocks (you can do minerals-if you like) around your house (literally), including type(s), how they formed, their geologic history (briefly), economic resources/benefits, and any other information you find interesting to you. You can getting an overview…

As we see, technology is ever-changing and impacts events and the most minor things we do on a day-to-day basis. Please review the Impact of Mobile learning and the videos below, and develop a short PowerPoint presentation to summarize some important points about mobile learning. The slides should be (5-7 slides of content), you should…

this exercise you will learn to recognize and identify sedimentary structures. For this exercise, read through the following descriptions of sedimentary structures and then complete the assignment on Sedimentary structures. Download assignment on Sedimentary structures.Submit assignment to Dropbox. Primary sedimentary structures are those which form during (or shortly after) deposition of the sediment. Some sedimentary…

Geomorphology of Mission Beach field report Fieldbook – main prompt Pracs will help with the report, I’ve also included raw data and 6 sources. ( Main/Source ) the rest is the raw data.

Biostratigraphy involves the study, correlation, and age-dating of rock layers based on the kinds of fossils species they contain. For more than 200 years, geologists have been using the concept of “fossil succession” to assign relative ages to rock layers. “Fossil succession?” refers to the fact that different fossil species lived and died at different…

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17JQSxjZPFhHAo7EOw1oEu90SmbOLSuVotWP7e9G2dkk/edit?usp=sharing Read the following article The Paradoxides Paradox: Plate Tectonics and Continental Drift Links to an external site. and answer the following questions regarding using fossils to reconstruct the paleogeography of Earth surface in the geologic past. Answer the following Questions and submit to the dropbox for this assignment: 1. Why are trilobites important stratigraphic…