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| PEM1005 | Soil science | 2+0+0 | ECTS:3 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Bülent TURGUT | | Co-Lecturer | ASSIST. PROF. DR. Arslan OKATAN, | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | especially in landscape soil, physical thriving land under other ecosystems, chemical, determination of biological and hydrophysical properties of the soil regulation of health protection and to investigate the relationships between organisms and their environment who live on the land, mainly in nature to investigate the structure and function of plant growing in the soil of the importance and it is aimed to train staff to work on these issues besides the election. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | Students will be able to learn and evaluate edaphical factors (soil properties) such as soil depth, soil skeleton, soil pH, organic matter, soil structure, soil texture, contents of CaCO3, color, temperature. Students will be able to learn and evaluate climatical factors such as temperature and prec | 3,4 | | | LO - 2 : | Students will be survey etudes (studies) and surveys in afforestation areas and according to these results, apply relations about convent species on site | 3,4 | | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Definition of soil, the importance of interaction, formation, examining the soil profile, soil physical, examination of the chemical and biological properties of soil types and series, ground water, soil, plants and water relations. showing the distribution of the Earth's surface soils and to better understand their characteristics, how it is composed of soil characteristics and landscape How to have information about the effects (large and small scale), win a preliminary information for the investigation of soil properties, to understand that they should not how the land managed for different objectives. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Aim and subject of soil science, Concept of soil and its description | | | Week 2 | Forest soils, Agriculture soils, Landscape soils, Soil structure | | | Week 3 | Soil formation, factors affacting soil formation, Bedrocks and parent materials of soil | | | Week 4 | Elements and minerals in bedrocks, elements forming soil minerals, oxides, silicates, İgneous-metamorphic-sedimentry rocks | | | Week 5 | Soil horizons | | | Week 6 | Soil forming processes | | | Week 7 | Soil structure and composition, clay minerals in soil and their transformation, | | | Week 8 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 9 | Soil organisms and soil organic matter, condations and activities of soil organisms and their effects on soil | | | Week 10 | Decomposition of soil organic matter, humification, humus types, importance of soil organic matter, soil properties | | | Week 11 | soil physical properties, inner elements of soil structure and factors affecting these properties | | | Week 12 | Cohesiveness, prosity, specific weight, volume-weighted and permeability of soils | | | Week 13 | Soil water types, soil water movements, Soil humidity
| | | Week 14 | Quiz | | | Week 15 | Chemical properties of soil, ion adsorption of soils, Cation exchange of soil, soil reaction )pH) | | | Week 16 | End-of-term exam | | | |
| 1 | KANTARCI, M. DOĞAN, 2000, TOPRAK İLMİ, İSTANBUL ÜNİVERSİTESİ ORMAN FAKÜLTESİ YAYINLARI, No:4261, İSTANBUL | | | 2 | ÇEPEL, NECMETT,N, 1988, TOPRAK İLMİ DERS KİTABI, İSTANBUL ÜNİVERSİTESİ ORMAN FAKÜLTESİ, No: 3416, İSTANBUL | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 12/11/2010 | 1 | 30 | | In-term studies (second mid-term exam) | 14 | 18/12/2010 | 1 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 13/01/2011 | 1 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 1 | 2 | 2 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 3 | 2 | 6 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Arasınav | 1.5 | 1 | 1.5 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1.5 | 1 | 1.5 | | Total work load | | | 41 |
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