Apr 19 2011
Since it was such a busy week with prom and since most of you met your scribe post obligations during the energy project, I did not assign scribes over the last few days. So, here is a collection of links from last year’s class on Global Climate Change for those that missed class: Intro to [...]
Oct 19 2010
On Friday we continued our discussion on the Earth’s Atmosphere and why we have a diversity of climates throughout the Earth. 1. UNEVEN HEATING OF THE EARTH – Shape – Tilt (23.5 degrees from the vertical axis) – Orbit We did a quick experiment with the globe to show how the shape and tilt affect [...]
Oct 16 2010
What’s Really in our Atmosphere? In order to understand biomes, we have to understand why temperature and precipitation change in different places around the world. To start the understanding of this we talked about the composition and structure of the Earth’s atmosphere. I: Composition- 78% Nitrogen- stable, inert gas because of the triple bond between [...]
