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- Level Foundation
- Duration 14 hours
- Course by University of Manchester
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Develop a greater appreciation for how the air, water, land, and life formed and have interacted over the last 4.5 billion years.Modules
Welcome to Week 1
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1
Videos
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3
Readings
1
Videos
- What's in store ...
3
Readings
- Course Guide
- Grading & Logistics
- Building Blocks of Earth’s Climate System
Lectures
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14
Videos
14
Videos
- Video 1.0: Introduction and Philosophy
- Video 1.1: How does science work?
- Optional Video: How do scientific papers get published?
- Video 1.2: Introduction to the Earth's climate system
- Video 1.3: How do we measure geologic time?
- Video 1.4: Geological Time Scale Song
- Video 1.5: Minerals and Rocks
- Video 1.5.1: Igneous Rock
- Video 1.5.2: Sedimentary Rock
- Video 1.5.3: Metamorphic Rock
- Video 1.6: Using radioactivity to date rocks - Dr. Ray Burgess
- Video 1.7: Using stable isotopes to understand Earth processes - Dr. Ray Burgess
- Video 1.8: How do we know how old the Earth is?
- Video 1.9: What are those rocks doing lying around?
Google Earth Tour
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1
Readings
1
Readings
- Google Earth Tour 1
Build Your Own Earth
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1
Readings
1
Readings
- Activity 1: Introduction
Further Reading
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2
Readings
2
Readings
- Eloquent Science
- Our Earth 001 Course Book
Assessment
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Assessment 1
Welcome to Week 2
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1
Readings
1
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- Formation, evolution, and processes of the solid Earth
Lectures
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14
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14
Videos
- Video 2.1.1: How did the Moon form? - Dr. Katherine Joy
- Video 2.1.2: Why is the Moon important to life on earth? - Dr. Katherine Joy
- Video 2.2: What came before plate tectonics?
- Video 2.3: How did plate tectonics get discovered?
- Video 2.4.1: The Earth's magnetic field
- Video 2.4.2: The magnetic poles flip? You're kidding me, right?
- Video 2.5: How earthquakes happen
- Video 2.6.1: What's inside the Earth?
- Video 2.6.2: How do we know about the insides of the Earth?
- Video 2.7: How do the plates move?
- Video 2.8: How does magma form?
- Video 2.9: How were the Himalaya formed?
- Video 2.10: Supercontinent Pangaea
- Video 2.11: The supercontinent cycle
Google Earth Tour
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1
Readings
1
Readings
- Google Earth Tour 2 and 3
Assessment
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Assessment 2
Welcome to Week 3
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1
Readings
1
Readings
- Water in Earth’s Climate System: Oceans, Atmosphere, and Cryosphere
Lectures
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14
Videos
14
Videos
- Video 3.1.1: Where Did the Oceans Come From?
- Video 3.1.2: Are the Oceans in Steady State?
- Video 3.2.1: How the oceans work - Dr. Gregory Lane-Serff
- Video 3.2.2: The oceanic conveyor belt - Dr. Gregory Lane-Serff
- Video 3.3.1: What is the Atmosphere Made Of?
- Video 3.3.2: What Controls the Temperature Profile of the Atmosphere?
- Video 3.3.3: Three Radiation Laws
- Video 3.3.4: What if the Earth had no Atmosphere?
- Video 3.4.1: How does the Atmosphere Work?
- Video 3.4.2: How do the Jet Streams Control the Weather?
- Video 3.5: Extratropical cyclones
- Video 3.6: The Rise and Fall of Ice on Earth
- Video 3.7: How do Glaciers Control the Height of Mountains? – Dr. Simon Brocklehurst
- Video 3.8: Why the Arctic is Crucial to Earth's Climate - Dr. Bart Van Dongen and Dr. Robert Sparks
Google Earth Tour
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1
Readings
1
Readings
- Google Earth Tour 4
Build Your Own Earth
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1
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1
Readings
- Activity 2: Further Exploration
Further Reading
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2
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2
Readings
- The Thinking Persons’ Guide to Climate Change
- The shaping of storm tracks by mountains and ocean dynamics
Assessment
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Assessment 3
Welcome to Week 4
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1
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1
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- Life, and its Effect on Earth’s Climate System
Lectures Part I: Early Life and Archaean
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4
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4
Videos
- Video 4.3.2: The Earliest Life on Earth
- Video 4.3.1 The Formation of Organic Molecules and the Tree of Life
- Video 4.1: The Earth's primitive atmosphere
- Video 4.2: Fossils
Lectures Part II: Precambrian
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3
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3
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- Video 4.4.1: Welcome to The Manchester Museum - Prof. Phil Manning
- Video 4.4.2: Apex Chert and Stromatolites - Prof. Phil Manning
- Video 4.4.3: Ediacaran Fauna - Prof. Phil Manning
Lectures Part III: Ediacaran through Carboniferous
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4
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4
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- Video 4.5.1: How Oxygen Changed the Earth Forever
- Video 4.5.2: The Arrival of Multicellular Life and the Cambrian Explosion
- Video 4.6.1: How Plants and Animals Came Onshore - Dr. Victoria Egerton
- Video 4.6.2: Colonization of Land
Lectures Part IV: Carboniferous through Cretaceous
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5
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5
Videos
- Video 4.7.1: Devonian: From Fish to Tetrapod - Prof. Phil Manning
- Video 4.7.2: Carboniferous - Prof. Phil Manning
- Video 4.7.3: Jurassic Coast - Prof. Phil Manning
- Video 4.7.4: Dinosaurs - Prof. Phil Manning
- Video 4.7.5: Chemical Fossils - Prof. Phil Manning
Lectures Part V: Mass Extinctions
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- Video 4.8: Controls on Life on Earth: Mass Extinctions
Google Earth Tour
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1
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1
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- Google Earth Tour 5
Assessment
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- Assessment 4
Welcome to Week 5
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1
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1
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- Build Your Own Earth
Build Your Own Earth
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4
Videos
4
Videos
- BYOE Video 1: Introduction to Build Your Own Earth
- BYOE Video 2: How to Use Build your own Earth
- BYOE Video 3: How to Interpret Climate Properties: Surface Temperatures, the Jet Stream, Clouds, and Precipitation
- BYOE Video 4: Using Build Your Own Earth to Study Past Earth Climates
Activities
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3
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3
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- Activity 1: Introduction
- Activity 2: Further Exploration
- Activity 3: Assessment
Assessment
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1
Assignment
1
Assignment
- BYOE Assessment
Conclusion
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1
Videos
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- Video 5.0: Synthesis and Anthropogenic Climate Change
Auto Summary
Discover the fascinating interactions of air, water, land, and life over 4.5 billion years in "Our Earth: Its Climate, History, and Processes." Offered by Coursera, this foundational Science & Engineering course spans 840 minutes. Available through Starter and Professional subscriptions, it's ideal for those eager to deepen their understanding of Earth's climatic and historical processes.
Prof. David M. Schultz
Dr Jonathan Fairman