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Instructor:   Sarah Hoover
Office: P124m
Phone Number: 503-594-3354

              

GS104:  (Fall)   Syllabus                                    Lecture notes, Objectives & Homework

GS105:   (Winter)  

Syllabus 

Lecture notes, Objectives & Homework

GS106:   (Spring)  

Syllabus  Lecture notes, Objectives &Homework

GS104 (Fall)

Lecture Notes Objectives Announcements, homework and extra credit Quiz Announcements Web links
Week One

introduction

Week one

NEWS ARTICLE ASSIGNMENT and Due Dates

  Resources for News Articles:

Science News;   Science Daily;    NY Times science sectionsGeology News

Week Two Week two

 

  Scale of the universe website
Week Three Week three  

 

 
Week Four

Plate tectonics

Week four

Equation practice sheet (answer key will be posted on my window later in the week)

Snell's Law Practice sheet (answer key will be posted on my window later this week)

PRESENTATIONS ON SOLAR SYSTEM IN LAB.  THIS LAB CANNOT BE DROPPED

 

 
Week Five

earthquakes

Week five

Earthquake on line lab (only if assigned!)

Virtual Earthquake link

MIDTERM THURSDAY

USGS Earthquake page
Week 6

intro to minerals

Week six (REVISED 11/9/10)

Tsunami Video transcripts 

REMINDER:  Lab Quiz on Weeks 3 & 5 this week

Dogami Oregon earthquake hazards
Week 7   NO Class Thursday (Veteran's Day)

Link to AMAZING Photos of Mars

 

 
Week 8: Igneous rocks introduction Week 8  additional reading on igneous rocks

additional igneous rock reading part 2

 

 

Lab Quiz on Labs 6 & 7

 
Week 9:  Volcano introduction.

(Same as week 8)

Volc. Objective

No Class Thursday (Thanksgiving)

How volcanoes work (online reading assignment per syllabus)  Scroll through the first four major topics on the left side of the page.

 

 

Lecture quiz Tuesday Nov 23 chemistry and minerals

 

 
Week 10: NW volcanoes    

Lecture quiz Thursday Dec 2nd igneous processes

Lab Quiz on Labs 9 & 10 (end of Lab)

 
         

GS105 (Winter)

Lecture Notes Objectives Additional Reading Quiz Announcements Web links
Week 1    (catastrophism, uniformintarianism, deep time) Week 1

Research Who Andrew Wakefield is and be prepared to talk about him in Week 2

   
Week 2 (radiometric dating) Week 2 (same objectives as week 1)   Quiz in Lecture on Tuesday  
Week 3 (chemical formulas and molarity) Week 3 (weathering and chemistry)  

Lab Quiz on Labs 1 & 2

 
Week 4 Week 4      
Week 5 (chemical reactions Week 5 (objectives are on week 3 objective sheet #13-18) sed rock environment worksheet Lab Quiz on Labs 3 & 4

Midterm Thursday 2/4/10

 
Week 6:  Sedimentary environments lecture

Week 6 (mass wasting lecture) Start in week 7)

Week 6:  Sedimentary environments objective sheet

Week 6 (mass wasting see week 7)

Practice worksheet for moles

Key for worksheet

 

 

Italian mass wasting video link  
Week 7 (mass wasting) Week 7 (objectives on mass wasting)

in class review exercise on velocity, acceleration and force

 

Due to Illness and canceled class on 2/15 please read the following articles:

Landslides 101

The Liquid Earth article

LECTURE QUIZ ON TUESDAY FEBRUARY 15TH...MOLARITY AND SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENTS

 

 
Week 8

(March 22-26)

Week 8  WORKSHEET

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mknStAMia0Q Landslide link I couldn't show in class.  The first clip is the West Hills of Portland

 
 
Week 9  Physics (energy and work) Week 9 World Oil Data Lab Quiz on Labs 7 & 8  
Week 10 Energy and society Week 10 Same as week 9 Lecture quiz on Thursday March 11th over Week 9 and 10 lecture Presentations on energy resources...YOU CAN NOT DROP THIS LAB  
      LECTURE FINAL: Tuesday March  15th 10-12  

GS106 (Spring)

Lecture Notes Objectives Quiz and Test Dates Homework Web links
Streams Streams    

Additional Stream Reading(Tulane University)

Info about Topographic maps

Ground water Groundwater  

HOMEWORK Due April 20th

Living on Earth

NPR #1

NPR #2

Additional Groundwater Reading (Tulane University)

Chemistry and properties of water

 

Properties of water Lab Quiz 1: Over labs 1 & 2

 

   
Thermodynamics (same link as Chemistry and properties of water)        
beach systems Beach systems      
Intro to oceanography Intro to Oceanography

   

LAB QUIZ ON LABS 5 & 6

5/11 AND 5/12

   
Plate tectonics and ocean topography Ocean exploration, Plate tectonics and ocean topography

 

 

Discovery of sound in the sea

Earth's Atmosphere Atmosphere

 

LAB QUIZ MAY 25TH & 26TH ON LABS 7 & 8

 

NOAA's web page on atmosphere and weather

Climate and Weather Climate and Weather intro

 

LAB FINAL JUNE 1ST AND JUNE 2ND

 

 

Clean air act (plain language version

Adiabatic rate vs environmental lapse rate

Stable vs unstable air masses

Weather Weather

Exercise and Answers to practice humidity, dew point, environmental lapse rate, Adiabatic rate and stable vs. unstable air masses