Course title
地学   [Geoscience]
Course category		Requirement		Credit	2
Department		Year	1～	Semester	3rd
Course type	3rd	Course code	01go1001
Instructor(s)
梅澤 有, 鈴木 馨, 濵名 崇   [UMEZAWA Yu, SUZUKI Kaoru, HAMANA Takashi]
Facility affiliation	Faculty of Agriculture	Office	Building2 324A	Email address

Course description

Subjects on geoscience are the area profoundly related to agricultural and environmental sciences in a broad sense. As a culture to build the base for agricultural and environmental sciences, this course lectures basic scientific knowledge on geosciences, taking a flame work of earth and planetary sciences that has made progress recently. This course 'Geoscience' addresses spatial scales such as inner earth and the universe, and time scales such as the evolution of the universe and the earth. This course aims to understand the basic concept on the universe and our planet and the scientific approaches. On the other hand, the other course, "Environmental Geoscience", give lectures on current environment and geochemical cycles of each earth subsystem such as atmosphere, geosphere and hydrosphere. This course is essential to the students who are going to get a license of 'Science' for junior high school and high school.

Expected Learning

To be able to explain properly the meaning of basic terms on geosciences. To understand the important concepts related to geoscientific phenomena and be able to explain them. Corresponding criteria in the Diploma policy: See the curriculum maps. https://www.tuat.ac.jp/campuslife_career/campuslife/policy/

Course schedule

Kaoru Suzuki: 1) Volcanoes, igneous rock 2) Orogenic movement, metamorphism, metamorphic rock 3) Action of water and topography, sedimentary rock, Stratum 4) The Quaternary period in Japan Yu Umezawa: 5) Energy resources 6) Coevolution of the Earth and Life (Birth of the Earth and Life, Changes in the Atmosphere, Snowball Earth, etc.) 7) Coevolution of the Earth and Life (Cambrian Explosion, Formation of Ozone Layer, Continental drift, etc.) 8) Coevolution of the Earth and life (Mass extinction of life, climate change causing glacial and interglacial periods, etc.) 9) Spare day for review Takashi Hamana: 10) Overview of visible celestial objects 11) Planetary motion and gravity 12) Structure and energy source of the sun 13) Nucleosynthesis in the universe 14) Formation of solar system planets, and exoplanets 15) Summary Term exam

Prerequisites

It is desirable for students who are going to attend "Geoscience Experiment" and "Environmental Geoscience" to learn this course. In addition to 30 hours that students spend in the class, students are recommended to prepare for and revise the lectures, spending the standard amount of time as specified by the University and using the lecture handouts as well as the references specified below.

Required Text(s) and Materials

Supplementary documents will be distributed accordingly during the class.

References

『基礎地球科学』 西村他著，朝倉書店

Assessment/Grading

Term exam Proper attendance in class is a requirement for eligibility to take the exam. Questions are designed to assess the understanding of and the ability to explain the topics dealt in the lectures. The grade distribution of the previous year is following. （2021year S: 41.6%, A: 31.2%, B: 18.8%, C: 6.0%, D: 2.4%) *The above data does not include students who did not take the final exam.

Message from instructor(s)

The content of the class is diverse, but students are required not to be too much obsessed in the details, and rather try to understand the big framework, such as concepts and principles, how they are established, and so on.

Course keywords

History and formation of the earth，Origin and formation process of earth surface materials, Earth in the Universe

Office hours

Mail to: Umezawa (umezawa@me.tuat.ac.jp), Suzuki (kaoru@cc.tuat.ac.jp), Hamana (hamana.tk@nao.ac.jp)

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Lecture Language

Japanese

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Last update

3/4/2022 12:38:35 PM