GES 110 - The Changing Earth: Climate, Ecosystems, Water, and Landscapes (3)

This course focuses on the dynamics of the Earth’s environment, including pressing concerns such as climate change, natural hazards, pollution, and biodiversity. It addresses processes in the atmosphere, in earth’s natural waters, in the solid earth, and in the biosphere. The course’s concern is with natural and human processes that affect weather and climate, with the spatial patterns of environmental factors (such as temperature, moisture availability, landforms, soils, and vegetation), with the influence of plate tectonics and geologic structure on physiography of the continents and ocean floors, with the interactions that control these patterns and their evolution, and with current threats to biological diversity and human well-being due to changes in the Earth’s climate, oceans, and landscapes.

Grading: Graded
Course ID: 51203
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Attributes: Science (non-lab) (GEP), Science (non-lab) (GFR)
Typically Offered: Offered Fall, Spring, Summer