Earth and Environmental Science: The HSC Course
The HSC Course
Published on 30. October 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
402 pages
978-0-521-01663-6 (ISBN)
Description
Earth and Environmental Science uses global and Australian contexts to explore interactions between humans and the environments they inhabit. Beautiful in design and practical in layout, students are provided with a comprehensive and thorough understanding of environmental science and human impact.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
Interest Age: From 14 to 16 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 35 Tables, unspecified; 15 Maps; 150 Halftones, unspecified; 140 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
1007 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-01663-6 (9780521016636)
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Persons
Tom Hubble has taught introductory geology as well as specialist engineering and environmental geology courses to science and civil engineering students at the University of Sydney since 1988. He has been an examiner, marker and curriculum developer for the HSC. Chris Huxley has had wide experience in teaching all branches of science at the senior level. He is currently Head of Science at Blue Mountains Grammar, and has been an examiner, marker and curriculum designer. Iain Imlay-Gillespie has taught science and environmental science at all levels in NSW and overseas and is currently head of science at Nagle College, Blacktown. He has extensive experience as an examiner, marker and curriculum developer.
Content
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.