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ESC 1000 - Earth and Its Environment

Learning Commons Handouts

Handouts for downloading and printing

Online Resources

book cover for ESC1000

Login to the Companion Website for Foundations of Earth Science, 5e and take the practice chapter test. Use the access code that came with your new textbook. Students who bought a used book and do not have an access code will need to have a Learning Commons Specialist log you in.
   

Additional Resources for Earth Science Students

Study Games
 

Study game Geology  (chap 5-8) (vnd.ms-powerpoint 624.50 kB)

Study game Meteorology  (vnd.ms-powerpoint 628.00 kB)

Instructions for Jeopardy games:

Click on Slide Show from beginning

Slides will run on their own until Jeopardy game board appears

Click on $ amount under chosen category:- example: Earthquakes $300

Question will appear

Click on question slide for answer

Click on square box in lower left corner of answer slide and it will return to main board with categories and questions

Click on star for Final Jeopardy

Final Jeopardy is end of slide show.
   

Millionaire Oceanography review (chapters 9&10) (vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation 843.31 kB)

Study game review Ch 1-4 (vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation 1.09 MB)

Instructions for Who wants to be a millionaire:

Play as powerpoint slide show

3 questions per slide

Answers appear on next slide
Practice Quizzes
 

Rock quiz

Planet quiz

Soft Chalk Rock and Planet Quizzes:

Click through flash cards to study rocks and minerals or planets

Use terms from flash cards to complete drag and drop matching activity
   
Volcanoes

Soft Chalk Volcanoes Flash cards:

Click on flash card activity

Click through flash cards to study volcanoes
   
Continental Margins Quiz

Soft Chalk Continental Margins Quizzes:

Click through flash cards to study about continental margins
   
Plate boundary quiz 

Soft Chalk Plate Boundary Quiz:

Click on Hot Spot Quiz

Click on the geographic location on the map that matches the  type of plate boundary found at that location
   
Geography quiz

Soft Chalk Geography Quiz:

Click on Hot Spot quiz

Click on the geographic location indicated
   
Geological Timescale

Soft Chalk Geological Timescale:

Click on Hot Spot quiz

Complete the matching activity
   
Useful Links

Greenhouse effect an explanation of the greenhouse effect from the University of California San Diego.

Density from Martha Marie,Ed.D. Anthony Carpi, Ph.D.

Fossil fuels from the department of energy

Sea Floor Spreading animation from Earthguide at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

A handout (pdf 220.66 kB)  to use with the seafloor animation

Subduction Animation from Earthguide at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

A handout (pdf 235.83 kB)  to use with the subduction animation

Jetstream: The National Weather Service Online School for Weather 

Global warming from National Geographic

North Seattle's Community College: relative dating 

Earth science Handouts