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Course Description: 

PREREQUISITE: Completion of at least one A-G approved CP Science course (i.e.: CP Biology).

An in-depth study the Earth’s construction, the processes that formed it and continual changes to its surface. Topics include: the formation and identification of rocks and minerals, types of volcanoes and how they erupt, the weathering of rocks and the effects on Earth’s surface and human populations, rivers, groundwater and ecological impacts of humans on water sources, glaciers, deserts, beaches and the ocean floor, earthquakes and their relationships to plate tectonics and their effects on humans, how moutains form, fossils and their relationships to Earth’s past.