G202

 
Syllabus Calendar Handouts Notes
 

Week

 

Date

Topics

Reading

1

1

1/3

Introductions & Overview
Missoula Floods (VIDEO)

 

 

2

1/5

LAB Introduction to Maps

Chpt 1,
LAB 6

2

3

1/10

Factors which Control Landscape Development                                             

Handout; S & P 300-313, 516-522

 

4

1/12

Topography  & Contours                                                                               LAB Contours  & Cross Sections

LAB 7

3

 

1/17

NO CLASS HOLIDAY Martin Luther King Jr. Day

 

 

5

1/19

Earth Materials & Weathering & Soils 
Intro to Landslides                                                                                      

Chpt. 3 & 14

4

6

1/24

Mass Wasting ProcessesLAB Mass Wasting

Chpt. 15
LAB 13

 

7

1/26

Living with Landslides, Catch Up, Wrap Up and Review Test 1                  Intro Rivers

Chpt. 15

 

 

1/29

Field Trip half day Vernonia

 

5

8

1/31

Test 1 (Chpt. 1, 3, 14; handout;  Lab 6, 7 & 13)
The flow of water in rivers

 

 

9

2/2

The Work of Rivers
LAB Rivers

LAB 14

6

10

2/7

Living with Rivers                                                                                           Intro Groundwater, DUE You Choose #1

Chpt. 17 

 

11

2/9

LAB Groundwater 
PROJECT DRAFT DUE                                               

LAB 15

7

12

2/14

Living with Groundwater; Catch up, Wrap Up, Review Test 2
LAB Group Review of Project Drafts

Chpt. 14

 

 13

2/16

Test 2  (Chpt 16 & 17; LAB 14 & 15)                                                               Intro Coasts, LAB Coasts

Chpt. 19    
LAB 16

 

 

2/19

Field Trip Oregon Coast

 

8

14

2/21

OPEN CLASS PERIOD  Work on projects & field trip write ups. 
I will be in class to answer questions.  No new material presented

 

 

15

2/23

Wrap UP Field Trip
Living with Coasts

 

9

16

2/28

Intro to Desert Landforms and Processes
LAB: Desert Landscapes  

Chpt. 20             LAB 19

 

17

3/2

 Intro to Glaciers and Glacial Processes
DUE Field Trip Write Up

Chpt. 18

10

18

3/7

Glacial Landforms
LAB Glacial Landscapes  DUE You Choose #2

LAB18

 

19

3/9

Ice Ages, Climate Change, Living with Climate Change
Wrap Up,  Review Test 3 PROJECT DUE

Chpt. 21

     11

20

3/14

FINAL 9:00 to 11:00 am
Test 3 (Chpt. 18, 19, 20, 21; LAB 16, 18, 19)

 

Notes: Readings should be completed before coming to class on the date listed.

            Chpt. refers to chapters in Smith & Pun
            LAB refers to Laboratories in Owen, Pirie and Draper, read only, no need to answer questions!

 

 

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