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Visit the TeacherWeb® videos to learn about the features, modifications, and customizations available on your website. Click here to learn more. APES HOMEWORK <SPAN style="COLOR: #008000"><SPAN style="COLOR: #ff0000"><SPAN style="COLOR: #ff0000"><SPAN style="COLOR: #00ccff"><SPAN style="COLOR: #000080"><SPAN style="COLOR: #000080"> <DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; BACKGROUND: white; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc; mso-border-alt: solid #CCCCCC .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 14.0pt 0in 11.0pt" align=left><SPAN style="COLOR: #ff0000"><SPAN style="COLOR: #008000"> <DIV><SPAN style="COLOR: #000080"><SPAN style="COLOR: #000080"><STRONG><U>WEEK 17: DEC. 21 - 23<BR> </U> Begin assignment <U>due after break</U>. Read in chapter 8 (Ecological Economics) on p. 168 Ecological Economics through the end of the chapter. Summarize each section that begins in Bold Letters in one or two sentences.<BR> <U><BR> WEEK 16: DEC. 14 - 18<BR> </U>MON: Click on the El Nino website: <A href="http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/oceanography_el_nino.html">http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/oceanography_el_nino.html</A><BR> 1. Copy the 10 consequences during an El Nino year.<BR> Use the El Nino home page: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/nino-home.html<BR> 2. What is an El Nino.<BR> 3. Define: thermocline. <BR> 4. Click on the graphic of El Nino conditions: <U>Contrast </U>the El Nino, Normal and La Nina thermocline positions.<BR> 5. Click on the graphic of Where Can I find an El Nino. Contrast the El Nino, Normal & La Nino graphics.<BR> 6. Go to: <A href="http://iri.columbia.edu/climate/ENSO/societal/impact/care.html">http://iri.columbia.edu/climate/ENSO/societal/impact/care.html</A> Briefly summarize why it is valuable to know when an El Nino is going to occur.<BR> <BR> TUES. Use the internet to find the following answers:<BR> 1. Describe the Milankovitch theory including the earth factors that combine to trigger it.<BR> 2. How often does the above occur?<BR> 3. When is the last time?<BR> 4. Using the answer from #3, determine when it will happen again.<BR> <BR> WED. Go to:http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/IPCC-4th-Report.html<BR> Summarize the following:<BR> 1. Tim Flannery's assessment in The Weather Makers.<BR> 2. Summarize the information in A. Working Group I. B. Working Group II C. Working Group III.</STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN style="COLOR: #000080"><SPAN style="COLOR: #000080"><STRONG><BR> THURS. Go to: <A href="http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/facts-impacts-climate-change.html">http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/facts-impacts-climate-change.html</A><BR> Read over the page: Write down 3 things from Facts, Impacts & Social Impacts. <BR> <BR> We'll do this tomorrow in class: Answer the following questions that relate to the lab Too Cool for School.<BR> </DIV> <DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 0.75pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0.75pt solid; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 0.75pt solid; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0.75pt solid"> <DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 0.75pt solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 0.75pt solid; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 0.75pt solid; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 0.75pt solid"> <P style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid #CCCCCC .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in"><STRONG><FONT color=#000000>1. Which container heated up the most? The least?<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></P> <P style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid #CCCCCC .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in"><STRONG><FONT color=#000000>2. Explain what each of the containers modeled: A. closed + carbon dioxide B. closed C. open<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></P> <P style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: medium none; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 0in; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; mso-border-alt: solid #CCCCCC .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 0in 0in"><STRONG><FONT color=#000000>3. Explain the greenhouse effect.<o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></P> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV>FRI. 1. What is a positive feedback loop? 2. Negative feed back loop?<BR> Go to: <BR> <A href="http://climatechange.110mb.com/effects-feedback-loops-climate.htm">http://climatechange.110mb.com/effects-feedback-loops-climate.htm</A><BR> Summarize each feedback loop.<BR> </DIV> <DIV><U><BR> <BR> </U></STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> </SPAN></SPAN></DIV> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> Or, would you like to view and optionally restore one of these previous versions? Password: Forgot your password?

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