GEOL 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Elevator Pitch, Environmental Geology, Geologic Time Scale
8 Mar 2018
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Tuesday, week 9, lecture #15 , class #17. Submit slide through your lab section on canvas 24 hrs before) optional powerpoint slide. Posted on canvas, 3 parts (answer everything) Processes at or near surface, relationship between humans and their earth environments, apply principles to solve problems. Setting the stage, material change and loss, water, and global variability and human change. Weather patterns of the earth in general. Weather: atmospheric conditions during a specific time interval at a given locality. Climate: an area;s long-term weather patterns as observed over a period of decades for a region. Agreate measure of the conditions that occur at a given location. Ex: daily mean max temp and extremes, daily mean min, daily mean precipitation. Amount of rainfall: erosion and what rocks form and deposit, temp, Climate changes how these processes change/happen over time. If climate changes, so do these parts of environ.
