Our Earth: Its Climate, History, and Processes
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Duration | 14 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
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- Develop a greater appreciation for how the air, water, land, and life formed and have interacted over the last 4.5 billion years.
Our Earth: Its Climate, History, and Processes at Coursera Curriculum
Building Blocks of Earth?s Climate System
What's in store ...
Video 1.0: Introduction and Philosophy
Video 1.1: How does science work?
Optional Video: How do scientific papers get published?
Video 1.2: Introduction to the Earth's climate system
Video 1.3: How do we measure geologic time?
Video 1.4: Geological Time Scale Song
Video 1.5: Minerals and Rocks
Video 1.5.1: Igneous Rock
Video 1.5.2: Sedimentary Rock
Video 1.5.3: Metamorphic Rock
Video 1.6: Using radioactivity to date rocks - Dr. Ray Burgess
Video 1.7: Using stable isotopes to understand Earth processes - Dr. Ray Burgess
Video 1.8: How do we know how old the Earth is?
Video 1.9: What are those rocks doing lying around?
Course Guide
Grading & Logistics
Building Blocks of Earth?s Climate System
Google Earth Tour 1
Activity 1: Introduction
Eloquent Science
Our Earth 001 Course Book
Assessment 1
Formation, evolution, and processes of the solid Earth
Video 2.1.1: How did the Moon form? - Dr. Katherine Joy
Video 2.1.2: Why is the Moon important to life on earth? - Dr. Katherine Joy
Video 2.2: What came before plate tectonics?
Video 2.3: How did plate tectonics get discovered?
Video 2.4.1: The Earth's magnetic field
Video 2.4.2: The magnetic poles flip? You're kidding me, right?
Video 2.5: How earthquakes happen
Video 2.6.1: What's inside the Earth?
Video 2.6.2: How do we know about the insides of the Earth?
Video 2.7: How do the plates move?
Video 2.8: How does magma form?
Video 2.9: How were the Himalaya formed?
Video 2.10: Supercontinent Pangaea
Video 2.11: The supercontinent cycle
Formation, evolution, and processes of the solid Earth
Google Earth Tour 2 and 3
Assessment 2
Water in Earth?s Climate System: Oceans, Atmosphere, and Cryosphere
Video 3.1.1: Where Did the Oceans Come From?
Video 3.1.2: Are the Oceans in Steady State?
Video 3.2.1: How the oceans work - Dr. Gregory Lane-Serff
Video 3.2.2: The oceanic conveyor belt - Dr. Gregory Lane-Serff
Video 3.3.1: What is the Atmosphere Made Of?
Video 3.3.2: What Controls the Temperature Profile of the Atmosphere?
Video 3.3.3: Three Radiation Laws
Video 3.3.4: What if the Earth had no Atmosphere?
Video 3.4.1: How does the Atmosphere Work?
Video 3.4.2: How do the Jet Streams Control the Weather?
Video 3.5: Extratropical cyclones
Video 3.6: The Rise and Fall of Ice on Earth
Video 3.7: How do Glaciers Control the Height of Mountains? ? Dr. Simon Brocklehurst
Video 3.8: Why the Arctic is Crucial to Earth's Climate - Dr. Bart Van Dongen and Dr. Robert Sparks
Water in Earth?s Climate System: Oceans, Atmosphere, and Cryosphere
Google Earth Tour 4
Activity 2: Further Exploration
The Thinking Persons? Guide to Climate Change
The shaping of storm tracks by mountains and ocean dynamics
Assessment 3
Life, and its Effect on Earth?s Climate System
Video 4.3.2: The Earliest Life on Earth
Video 4.3.1 The Formation of Organic Molecules and the Tree of Life
Video 4.1: The Earth's primitive atmosphere
Video 4.2: Fossils
Video 4.4.1: Welcome to The Manchester Museum - Prof. Phil Manning
Video 4.4.2: Apex Chert and Stromatolites - Prof. Phil Manning
Video 4.4.3: Ediacaran Fauna - Prof. Phil Manning
Video 4.5.1: How Oxygen Changed the Earth Forever
Video 4.5.2: The Arrival of Multicellular Life and the Cambrian Explosion
Video 4.6.1: How Plants and Animals Came Onshore - Dr. Victoria Egerton
Video 4.6.2: Colonization of Land
Video 4.7.1: Devonian: From Fish to Tetrapod - Prof. Phil Manning
Video 4.7.2: Carboniferous - Prof. Phil Manning
Video 4.7.3: Jurassic Coast - Prof. Phil Manning
Video 4.7.4: Dinosaurs - Prof. Phil Manning
Video 4.7.5: Chemical Fossils - Prof. Phil Manning
Video 4.8: Controls on Life on Earth: Mass Extinctions
Life, and its Effect on Earth?s Climate System
Google Earth Tour 5
Assessment 4
Build Your Own Earth and Conclusion
BYOE Video 1: Introduction to Build Your Own Earth
BYOE Video 2: How to Use Build your own Earth
BYOE Video 3: How to Interpret Climate Properties: Surface Temperatures, the Jet Stream, Clouds, and Precipitation
BYOE Video 4: Using Build Your Own Earth to Study Past Earth Climates
Video 5.0: Synthesis and Anthropogenic Climate Change
Build Your Own Earth
Activity 1: Introduction
Activity 2: Further Exploration
Activity 3: Assessment
BYOE Assessment
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