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Goals and Objectives

Goals

  • Students will gain an understanding of how plate tectonics plays a first order control on the characteristics of a coast and how other processes such as glaciation, climate, sediment supply, waves, and tides also influence the characteristics of a coast.
  • Students will develop an appreciation for the geomorphologic diversity of coastal zones.
  • Students will gain an understanding of the differences between emergent and submergent coasts, depositional and erosional coasts, as well as how hydrodynamic regime exerts a strong control on geomorphology of the coast.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

  • examine and show, using Google Earth, the global diversity of coastal zones;
  • identify the plate tectonic setting of a coastal zone based on geographic location relative to major tectonic boundaries;
  • identify and be able to describe the second-order processes that can act on coastal zones;
  • integrate your knowledge of coastal geomorphology and understanding of coastal processes to identify the types of processes that create specific coastal geomorphologies;
  • evaluate the history of a coast on the basis of the coastal geomorphology.

Lesson 2 Roadmap

AssignmentLocation
To Read
  • For this module, you will need to read all of the required materials here on the course site.
  • In addition, you should also read the following websites and make sure you are familiar with the content so you can complete the assignments and the active learning projects.

Wikipedia article: Weathering: This article gives an explanation of chemical weathering.

YouTube video on Chemical Weathering: Watch an informative video on chemical weathering.

Wikipedia article: Nor'easter formation: This article provides details of northeaster formation.

USGS article on Northeasters: This article provides a brief description of northeasters.

All on the Web. Click title of the reading to link to the material.

To DoBLENDED CLASS
  1. Formative Assessment: Investigating Coastal Morphology
  2. Module Summative Assessment: Evolution of Coastlines
  1. Complete Activate Your Learning assignments online. There is nothing to submit.
  2. Submit Formative and Summative Assessments in attached Word documents.
To DoONLINE ONLY
  1. Module Summative Assessment: Evolution of Coastlines
  1. Complete Activate Your Learning assignments online. There is nothing to submit.
  2. Submit Summative Assessment using the Module 2 Assessment page.
These materials are part of a collection of classroom-tested modules and courses developed by InTeGrate. The materials engage students in understanding the earth system as it intertwines with key societal issues. The collection is freely available and ready to be adapted by undergraduate educators across a range of courses including: general education or majors courses in Earth-focused disciplines such as geoscience or environmental science, social science, engineering, and other sciences, as well as courses for interdisciplinary programs.
Explore the Collection »