Geoscience

Name: Geoscience
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environmental, natural science and human action

Created byAlyson Bueno Francisco

Last updated 8/2026

English

What you'll learn

To learn about geological structures, rocks, minerals and natural resources
To understand about water resources and human actions affecting the conservation of drinking water
To understand how climate change will affect life on Earth
To use geoscience knowledge to produce educational articles and materials

Course content

3 sections • 37 lectures • 8h 20m total length

Summary in Geoscience4:02
Explore geology and geomorphology to understand rocks, minerals, deposits, and earth surfaces. Study soils, water, climate, hydrology, and how changes drive erosion, global warming, and water quality.
Introduction Global Environmental4:53
Explore how humans interact with the environment and how fossil-fuel use has raised global temperature, prompting scientists and local political actors to take small actions for humanity's survival.
Earth's Structure14:16
Questions about Geology
Underground Earth with Crystals in caves37:12
Explore how the hot inner earth fuels crystal caves like la cueva de los cristales, where gypsum crystals form under extreme heat and humidity, revealing geology's role in civilization.
Minerals, Rocks and Ores Deposits23:10
Explore minerals, rocks, and mineral deposits, uncovering how chemical composition, crystallization, and rock formation processes classify minerals and rocks into igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic types, with ore deposit insights.
Global tectonic and great structure's forms15:13
Explore global tectonics and geomorphology, examining plate tectonics, continental drift, and supercontinents like Pangea and Rodinia, while linking mantle convection and ocean-floor spreading to mountains and basins.
Landscapes of relief9:43
Explore continental landscapes of relief, including mountains, plateaus, depressions, valleys, and plains, formed by tectonic convergence, erosion, and sediment deposition.
Question about knowledge Geomorfology

Soil: formation and geographical distribution20:41
Explore soil formation through weathering and pedogenesis, linking chemical and physical processes to horizons, texture, color, and the global distribution of latosols and oxisols in tropical regions.
Soil: science, life and morphology24:35
Soil Conservation: researches and USLE12:02
Estimative Loss Soil with Equation in Basins10:53
Laminar and linear erosion forms5:23
Techniques of Erosion Control4:34
Geoscience teaches soil erosion control through conservation practices and barriers perpendicular to runoff, with linear erosion techniques, coastal vegetation strategies, and urban drainage to prevent gullies.
Question about Pedology
Action of Water in Earth13:37
this lecture shows how humans have become a planetary force through a mud volcano triggered by gas drilling, and farming's rise links to atmospheric greenhouse gases.
Atmosphere: composition, changes climate and systems air masses16:04
Examine the atmosphere's composition through geologic time, carbon dioxide and oxygen trends, and the greenhouse effect, then explore general circulation, air masses, fronts, and monsoons shaping climate.
Question about Climatology
Antarctica26:16
Explore the human endurance and sea exploration of Antarctica through Shackleton's voyage, Endurance ship, and polar expeditions, highlighting isolation, navigation, meteorology, and survival challenges.
Global positioning Ice Antarctica37:44
Hidrology: water in channels and dynamics22:27
Explore hydrology of rivers and drainage basins, examining geomorphology concepts, river sinuosity, bed types, flood levels, natural flow, groundwater, and major aquifers such as Guarani.
Water: demand and quality in world12:06
Explore global water demand and quality, examining per-capita withdrawals, regional disparities (North America, Central Asia, South Asia), groundwater's role for domestic use, and pollution threats from microplastics and pharmaceuticals.
Africa water demand10:24
Lose water in rural people5:46
Question about Hidrology

Human Action in Earth17:32
Man made processes in environment8:51
Analyze how human actions modify soils and habitats, driving desertification and erosion. Explore impacts on nutrients, albedo, microclimate, and biodiversity.
Atmosphere changed human action3:04
Explore how deforestation and urban growth alter surface cover and solar radiation, raising lower-atmosphere temperatures, and how carbon dioxide drives greenhouse-effect warming, driving micro-, meso-, and macro-scale climate changes.
Changes Earth surface 40 years later2:43
Changes Climate Data16:04
Technogenic deposits and changes surface of Earth6:13
Waste in river: Drina River case6:00
Examine transboundary water management in the Lena Basin, addressing solid waste accumulation in rivers and lakes and the role of joint strategic action plans and stakeholders.
Climate Changes Conference6:06
Conference of the Parties5:56
Explore how the United Nations conference on climate change coordinates measures under Kyoto Protocol, including the Clean Development Mechanism, carbon sinks, forest conservation, carbon sequestration, and financing for developing countries.
Extreme Events in data report10:05
Examine how droughts and floods cause massive losses and affect millions, as climate change heightens extreme risks and necessitates cross-sector climate risk management and vector-borne disease control.
Impacts because global warming16:04
Permafrost and Changes Climate8:50
Risk of drainage in Alps11:49
Food: environmental and production14:07
Explore soil health, water use, and sustainable food production through precision farming, satellites, and data-driven farming to improve carbon storage and the future of food.
Power sources23:47
Dear English speaking student, this class is in Portuguese, but the main ideas are written in English with sentences as subtitles. You don't need to turn on the caption to view the English sentences.
Read carefully the main ideas mentioned in the lesson:
1. Until the 18th century, firewood was the main fuel
2. Coal became the main source of energy after the First Industrial Revolution
3. Oil surpassed coal, especially with the invention of the gasoline-powered automobile
4. In the 1960s, a group of oil-producing countries set the international price
5. The United States, despite being dependent on oil from the Middle East, has become the largest producer
6. Nuclear energy, despite the accidents that occurred in Chernobyl and Fukushima, is considered a clean energy with greater safety with technological innovation
7. Nuclear fusion, although very expensive, will be the main source to generate energy in the future
8. Brazil is a country with an energy matrix dependent on hydroelectric plants, with a nuclear power plant located close to large urban centers
9. Electric cars will change the need for more energy in the near future
Business and Action Enrironmental: ISO 1400111:54
Explore how ISO 14001-2026 updates the environmental management system, emphasizing leadership, change management, and external providers, including supply chains, to improve environmental performance.
Questions about Human Action in Environmental

Requirements

Natural Sciences taught in high school

Description

In this course we present the contents on: the dimensions of the planet Earth, in 30 classes. The structures of crust, mantle and core. The elements of the earth's crust. The definitions of minerals, rocks and ores. Mineralogy. The characteristics and types of minerals. Petrology and the origins of rocks. The magmatic, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. Ores and mineral deposits. Theories about the formation of the Earth's crust. Alfred Wegener's Continental Drift. Tectonic plates and theories about the expansion of the oceanic crust. The great forms of earthly relief. The mountains. The plateaus. The depressions and the plains. Watershed. The soil conservation. The deforestation and human action on the slopes. The forms of soil erosion. Pedology and soil formation. Physical weathering in the desert and cold regions. The chemical weathering in equatorial and tropical regions. The pedogenesis the endopedic fauna. The horizons of the ground. The morphological characteristics of the soils: color and texture. The composition of the Earth's atmosphere. The greenhouse effect. The general circulation of the atmosphere. Hadley, Ferrel and Polar cells. The breezes and the monsoon. The waters of the continents. Demand by water in regions. The river channels and morphologies. Water flows and drainage basins. The floods and large volumes of water. The groundwater. The aquifers. Confined Aquifer. Changes Climate. Data of sources about change climate. Impacts human action in environment. Control erosion technical. Power sources energy. Risk about nuclear power. Food safe and production. Water demand in Africa and poor continents.

Who this course is for:

Undergraduate Engineering Students
Geography or Natural Sciences's teachers
Environmental Area's Professionals

Geoscience

What you'll learn

Explore related topics

Course content

Geology and Geomorphology7 lectures • 1hr 48min

Soil, Climate and Hydrology14 lectures • 3hr 43min

Human Action in Earth16 lectures • 2hr 49min

Requirements

Description

Who this course is for: