GEOL 109 | The Earth and Life Through Time

Student-Curated Geology Video Collection

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There Was No First Human

1. Summary This video explains how humans did not magically appear on the Earth. The evolution of humans did not occur at one specific point. Instead they slowly changed from a fish 375...

Snowball Earth: The Time the Entire Earth Froze

1. Summary This video describes the process of the snowball earth effect in which the entire surface of the planet froze although the reasoning behind this phenomenon is still debated t...

NOVA: Permian Extinction

1. Summary The video discusses the world’s most severe extinction event, known as the End-Permian Mass Extinction. The video’s theory behind the cause of the End-Permian Mass Extinction...

Genetic Drift

1. Summary This video explains the two different representations of genetic drift. There are examples provided on how both the bottleneck effect and founders effect play a role in genet...

Plate Boundaries and Tectonic Plates

1. Summary This video discusses the constant motion of the earth’s lithospheric plates known as plate tectonics. It talks about…

What the Earth Went Through Before Humans Appeared

1. Summary This video explains a multitude of topics ranging from how the Earth was formed, early life on Earth, the first Ice Age and when life really began. It starts off from the beg...

How Was the Grand Canyon Formed?

1. Summary The Grand Canyon is an immense canyon in Arizona, USA. The canyon is 446 kilometres long, 29 kilometres wide and 1 mile deep. This video explains how a number of forces creat...

Feedback loops: How nature gets its rhythms – Anje-Margriet Neutel

1. Summary Feedback loop is compared to a band playing together, each instrument contributing to the feed back of the music.  Feed back is output of matter and energy being fed back int...

Have you ever wondered what causes a new species to form?

Summary This video explains two of the main types of speciation. It provides examples of certain isolations or barriers that make way for a new type of species to form. It e...

What is the Evidence for Evolution?

1. Summary: he video discusses the fact that whales at one point in time were able to walk on land and thus, evolution has bred out whales having legs to better adapt to their environme...

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