Course overview
- Understand tectonic plates and continental drift
- Explore the origins of life and the concept of evolution
- Understand the chemical, physical and biological properties of seawater that make it capable of supporting life
- Investigate how marine life has adapted to be able to cope with the different marine environments
- Understand primary production and how it differs in the marine environment from on land
- Gain an understanding of food chains and food webs
- Recognise the damaging impact of humans in the recent past
- Identify ways in which we can protect our oceans for the future
This course will allow you to study at a time and place which suits you with no strict deadlines or timetabling to contend with. This means you can fit studying around your other commitments.
You will receive your course by post or email, so getting your materials is easy and hassle-free. Your personal tutor is there to support you every step of the way by email, so help is only a click away.
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