[GEOL 106] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 65 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering
• Course: GEOL 106
• Professor: John Hanes

Document Summary

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. Climate change: carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, ozone hole. How do we manage the risks that these natural and anthropogenic (human) hazards pose: major course theme. Introduction to earth science and earth system management/engineering. 1969 first human landed on the moon (neil armstrong) Once a photograph of the earth, taken from outside, is available a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose fred hoyle (astronomer 1948) I was on a plateau that science and technology had taken me too, but what i was. You get out there in space and you say to yourself, that"s home. That"s the only home we have, and the only home we"re going to have for a long time edgar dean. Suddenly we have a different view of the earth, as we see it in new ways, like seeing the earthrise from the moon.