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9780521016636

Earth and Environmental Science: The HSC Course

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521016636

  • ISBN10:

    0521016630

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-10-30
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

This comprehensive and exciting new text covers all of the syllabus requirements of the NSW Board of Studies HSC course in Earth and Environmental Science. Featuring global, Australian and NSW contexts it provides extensive coverage of core and elective topics and contains up-to-date information with special attention given to providing material for those areas of the syllabus that teachers have found difficult to resource. Also it gives clear sets of outcomes for each section of the text and includes numerous exercises and practical activities with a range of difficulty to address the needs of all students. Students will develop an appreciation of natural phenomena and human interactions with the natural world.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Acknowledgements
Part I. Tectonic Impacts: 1. Tectonic plates
2. Mountain building
3. How continents evolve
4. Natural disasters and tectonics
5. Climate and tectonics
Part II. Environments Through Time: 6. The ages of the Earth
7. Fossils and evolution
8. Important events of the Archaen and Early Proterozoic
9. Important events of the Late Proterozoic and Phanerozoic
10. Life moves into the terrestrial environment
11. Decimation and regeneration of the Earth's life
Part III. Caring for the Country: 12. Weathering and erosion of Australia's land surfaces
13. Salinity of soils and water
14. Pesticides - Effects and alternatives
15. Maintaining and protecting surface water
16. The impact of the industrial revolution on the atmosphere and hydrosphere
17. Waste management and mine-site rehabilitation
Part IV. Introduced Species and the Australian Environment: 18. Survey of introduced species in Australia
19. Environmental impacts of introduced species
20. Introduced species case studies
21. Rehabilitating ecosystems damaged by introduced species
22. Modern quarantine methods
Part V. Organic Geology - A Non-Renewable Resource: 23. The properties of fossil fuels
24. Environments and processes of fossil fuel formation
25. Exploration methods for coal and oil
26. The processing and uses of fossil fuels
27. The effects of fossil fuels on the environment
28. The search for alternative sources of energy
Part VI. Mining and the Australian Environment: 29. Why mineral deposits are not all ore deposits
30. Mineral exploration
31. From discovery to export, 6.4 Mining society and the law
32. Mining and the environment
Part VII. Oceanography: 33. Collecting data about the oceans
34. The world's oceans
35. Mass motion of the oceans
36. Life in the oceans
37. Hydrothermal vents and their communities
38. Deep-sea sediments
Resources
Index.

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