Geography Questions: (PLEASE NOTE: YOU MUST MAKE TWO OF EACH QUESTION SET AND DRAWING AS IF TWO DIFFERENT STUDENTS WROTE THEM)
Geography Questions: (PLEASE NOTE: YOU MUST MAKE TWO OF EACH QUESTION SET AND DRAWING AS IF TWO DIFFERENT STUDENTS WROTE THEM)
Atmosphere
What is the exact composition of air that you breathe? Which parts does your body use? What does it do with the part you don’t use?
__________ prevents the atmosphere from “escaping” into space.
What are CFCs? What kinds of products have CFCs in them? Why is it added to products? And why are CFCs dangerous to the environment?
Give at least two sources of air pollution and why they are dangerous to human health.
What is weather versus climate? Explain the some of the controls for each.
When I was in young, I went to New Zealand. A friend told me to check out the Coriolis effect in the southern hemisphere by watching the way a toilet flushes. He said the toilet water spins to the right in the Northern hemisphere. The water spins to the left in the Southern hemisphere. Do you think this is true? Why? Explain what happens in the Coriolis effect.
Energy Balance & Temperature Patterns
What is the Earth’s solar radiation budget telling us? Generalize.
What is the angle of incidence’s effect on the atmosphere and day length?
What are the differences between the warming of land and water? Specific heat, transmission? Are the hottest and coldest locations close to oceans or farther from oceans?
What is the connection between heat waves and the urban heat island effect? Do an internet search. What can you or your city do to reduce urban heat?
Check out the process of oceanic circulation seen in figure 4-25 on page 95 of your textbook. What are some important things to note? Western Intensification? Upwelling?
The average lapse rate tells us that every _________ meters the vertical temperature gradient changes by _________.
What are the 4 prominent controls of temperature? (list)
Compare and contrast the coldest winter locations and the hottest summer locations.
Figure Captions
In this thought experiment, we are going to caption a figure. To get started, view the REFERENCE ATTACHED
Next, draw either
The thermal structure of the atmosphere with altitude of the y axis and temperature of the x axis. For temperature, draw the line showing the temperature change in each layer of the atmosphere.
Label where planes fly, where clouds are, and where meteors burn up.
Show the altitudes of the ozone layer and ionosphere.
Show the homosphere and heterosphere with the gasses listed by weight.
THIS SET OF QUESTIONS ONLY NEED TO BE DONE ONCE
The Olduwan tool kit, the first stone tools, are simply a stone cobbles with a couple flakes knocked off. Please answer the questions below and please number your answers to correspond to these questions.
Who made Olduwan tools and what do they look like?
If they are just rocks with a couple pieces knocked off, how can we distinguish them from naturally broken rocks?
Could they have been used for hunting? Why or why not?
What do you think they may have been used for?
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