EESA01H3 Lecture 11: Lecture 11
21 Apr 2012
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Quiz 10 is on thursday because of good friday. 3 hour final multiple choice exam: approximately 120 questions, based on chapters 1-4, 11, 19 and 20 and lectures 10 and 11, special emphasis on chapters 1-4 and 20, know rodinia and pangaea. An urban world: the age of construction: make the planet more habitable, understand real world system, how they work and how we are changing them. Deforestation, ocean cycle, etc: the planet is becoming urbanized over time. Almost 80% of the world"s population lives in cities. These cities create urban shadows: super cities- any city with a population of 10 million or greater. Vast majority of these super cities are around areas of plate tectonic activity. Greater risks for natural hazards such as earthquakes. The anthropocene: the epoch of man: we shift more sediment every year than rivers and this leads to changes in environmental chemistry. Invention of the steam engine is the beginning of the anthropocene.
