These material are not required but are provided to assist you to increase your knowledge of landforms, history of the Earth, and tools in physical geography. They may be of substantial help. We recommend that you look them over in your liesure time. Click on the item below to view or go to the materials. Make it fun. (Please let me know if any of the links are broken. Dr. AJ)
Contour map Practice - interpreting topographic
maps: http://www.slideshare.net/rbritton24/topographic-map-with-animation
YouTube videos:
Soils:
Soil Hydrometer method on You Tube (skip first 60 seconds) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ik_VNz7xrU
You will make hydrometer measurements in the soils lab.
Sample preparations described in the beginning of this video will be done for you, but check it out.
Soil Orders - (8:16) Illustrated lecture by Dr. Vern Cardwell, by Minnesota Agriculture.
Soil Order Song (2:45) - Just for fun.
Geology:
Geologic Eras Animated - (4:05) YouTube video. The 'Old' song and dance. Just for fun. by Pellosborn
Evolution of the Earth - (50:05) YouTube video of 'Cosmos', TV show bu Carl Sagan. (Skip the ad)
Geologic Time Chart Project - (5:59) Dolak's Geology class. Good visuals, heavy on production but fun. Much more detail than we cover. (Skip last 2 minutes song without visuals.)
Plate Tectonics - (9:22) by Bozemanbiology. Illustrated lecture by Mr. Andersen
on You Tubes - Good discussion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axB6uhEx628
clay animation & cool jazz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cvarcgvG1Y
Understanding the Earth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dbTauY0Vog
National Geographic Colliding Continents - (50:05) National Geographic, by Pizzan70
Plate Tectonics - A Documentary - (7:40) by Isaac Frame
Plate Tectonics Video - (6:27) starts at 600 million yr before present (BP). YouTube video by Marcraft22. Heroic music is a bit much but the movement of continents recorded as still time slices is interesting. Fast motion at end is good too.
Other Resources
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