GEOL 103 - Evolution of the Earth

• Discuss basic terminology, principles and concepts of geology and paleontology.
• Identify igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks and use their physical characteristics to interpret the geologic history of the Earth (i.e., learn to “read the rocks”).
• Classify living and extinct organisms into major types, identify common fossils, and explain how they can be used to help determine depositional environments.
• Interpret chronology of geologic events using relative and absolute dating principles, geologic cross sections and maps.
• Discuss the geologic history of the Earth from the formation of the Solar System to the present.
• Describe and evaluate the evidence for the origin and evolution of life on Earth.
• Apply knowledge of geologic history to understand the future geologic and biologic change (e.g. greenhouse warming, rising sea level, mass extinctions)

• Natural Systems (Science and the Natural World)

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