COURSE GOALS
- To gain an understanding of Earth's complex systems
- To understand mapping techniques and navigation
- To identify and describe the rocks, minerals, and soil making up Earth's surface as well as the processes that
- To explain plate tectonics and the connections to earthquakes, volcanoes, surface changes, and evolution
- To understand the chemistry of water and its importance on Earth
- To understand how Earth's atmosphere is affected by land and water
- To understand our place in the solar system and in the Universe