Our Earth: Its Climate, History, and Processes
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Our Earth: Its Climate, History, and Processes
University of Manchester
Informações sobre o curso
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78 classificações
Develop a greater appreciation for how the air, water, land, and life formed and have interacted over the last 4.5 billion years.
Programa - O que você aprenderá com este curso
Week
1Building Blocks of Earth’s Climate System
15 vídeos (Total de 98 min), 7 leituras, 1 teste
15 videos
Video 1.0: Introduction and Philosophy7min
Video 1.1: How does science work?6min
Optional Video: How do scientific papers get published?10min
Video 1.2: Introduction to the Earth's climate system8min
Video 1.3: How do we measure geologic time?9min
Video 1.4: Geological Time Scale Song2min
Video 1.5: Minerals and Rocks2min
Video 1.5.1: Igneous Rock3min
Video 1.5.2: Sedimentary Rock6min
Video 1.5.3: Metamorphic Rock5min
Video 1.6: Using radioactivity to date rocks - Dr. Ray Burgess7min
Video 1.7: Using stable isotopes to understand Earth processes - Dr. Ray Burgess6min
Video 1.8: How do we know how old the Earth is?5min
Video 1.9: What are those rocks doing lying around?10min
7 leituras
Course Guide10min
Grading & Logistics10min
Building Blocks of Earth’s Climate System10min
Google Earth Tour 110min
Activity 1: Introduction10min
Eloquent Science10min
Our Earth 001 Course Book10min
1 exercício prático
Assessment 120min
Week
2Formation, evolution, and processes of the solid Earth
14 vídeos (Total de 107 min), 2 leituras, 1 teste
14 videos
Video 2.1.2: Why is the Moon important to life on earth? - Dr. Katherine Joy 3min
Video 2.2: What came before plate tectonics?5min
Video 2.3: How did plate tectonics get discovered?6min
Video 2.4.1: The Earth's magnetic field7min
Video 2.4.2: The magnetic poles flip? You're kidding me, right?6min
Video 2.5: How earthquakes happen14min
Video 2.6.1: What's inside the Earth?6min
Video 2.6.2: How do we know about the insides of the Earth?6min
Video 2.7: How do the plates move?3min
Video 2.8: How does magma form?11min
Video 2.9: How were the Himalaya formed?7min
Video 2.10: Supercontinent Pangaea9min
Video 2.11: The supercontinent cycle4min
2 leituras
Formation, evolution, and processes of the solid Earth10min
Google Earth Tour 2 and 310min
1 exercício prático
Assessment 220min
Week
3Water in Earth’s Climate System: Oceans, Atmosphere, and Cryosphere
14 vídeos (Total de 124 min), 5 leituras, 1 teste
14 videos
Video 3.1.2: Are the Oceans in Steady State?13min
Video 3.2.1: How the oceans work - Dr. Gregory Lane-Serff9min
Video 3.2.2: The oceanic conveyor belt - Dr. Gregory Lane-Serff12min
Video 3.3.1: What is the Atmosphere Made Of?6min
Video 3.3.2: What Controls the Temperature Profile of the Atmosphere?5min
Video 3.3.3: Three Radiation Laws4min
Video 3.3.4: What if the Earth had no Atmosphere?7min
Video 3.4.1: How does the Atmosphere Work?9min
Video 3.4.2: How do the Jet Streams Control the Weather?7min
Video 3.5: Extratropical cyclones8min
Video 3.6: The Rise and Fall of Ice on Earth12min
Video 3.7: How do Glaciers Control the Height of Mountains? – Dr. Simon Brocklehurst10min
Video 3.8: Why the Arctic is Crucial to Earth's Climate - Dr. Bart Van Dongen and Dr. Robert Sparks 7min
5 leituras
Water in Earth’s Climate System: Oceans, Atmosphere, and Cryosphere10min
Google Earth Tour 410min
Activity 2: Further Exploration10min
The Thinking Persons’ Guide to Climate Change10min
The shaping of storm tracks by mountains and ocean dynamics10min
1 exercício prático
Assessment 320min
Week
4Life, and its Effect on Earth’s Climate System
17 vídeos (Total de 116 min), 2 leituras, 1 teste
17 videos
Video 4.3.1 The Formation of Organic Molecules and the Tree of Life13min
Video 4.1: The Earth's primitive atmosphere10min
Video 4.2: Fossils6min
Video 4.4.1: Welcome to The Manchester Museum - Prof. Phil Manningmin
Video 4.4.2: Apex Chert and Stromatolites - Prof. Phil Manning 3min
Video 4.4.3: Ediacaran Fauna - Prof. Phil Manning 5min
Video 4.5.1: How Oxygen Changed the Earth Forever11min
Video 4.5.2: The Arrival of Multicellular Life and the Cambrian Explosion11min
Video 4.6.1: How Plants and Animals Came Onshore - Dr. Victoria Egerton7min
Video 4.6.2: Colonization of Land3min
Video 4.7.1: Devonian: From Fish to Tetrapod - Prof. Phil Manning7min
Video 4.7.2: Carboniferous - Prof. Phil Manning2min
Video 4.7.3: Jurassic Coast - Prof. Phil Manning3min
Video 4.7.4: Dinosaurs - Prof. Phil Manning 4min
Video 4.7.5: Chemical Fossils - Prof. Phil Manning 4min
Video 4.8: Controls on Life on Earth: Mass Extinctions12min
2 leituras
Life, and its Effect on Earth’s Climate System10min
Google Earth Tour 510min
1 exercício prático
Assessment 420min
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por SS•Mar 22nd 2018
It was a really nice, and interesting course, which will definitely help me in my career. Thanks University of Manchester!
por JQ•Dec 6th 2017
A great course with some interesting and educational concepts. I really enjoyed this course. Thanks so much.
Instrutores
Prof. David M. Schultz
Professor of Synoptic MeteorologySchool of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Dr Rochelle Taylor
Postdoctoral Research AssociateSchool of Earth, Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences
Dr Jonathan Fairman
Postdoctoral Research AssociateSchool of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Sobre University of Manchester
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