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Your assignments for this week are: Read Chapter 12: Soil Supplemental material here: http://schmidtphysicalgeography.wikispaces.com/Ch+12 Chapter 12 Quiz on Blackboard Posts – 2 this week, one for soil, and one for reflection on the class so far – posts located at the bottom of this page: http://schmidtphysicalgeography.wikispaces.com/Week+Ten+8+Week Review Exam Three Study Guide – located here: http://schmidtphysicalgeography.wikispaces.com/Exam+3+ch+9+through+12+spr+2014 Exam Three – Covers Chapters 9-12

On the chapter 12 page, you will find another worksheet, which is not required, but you may find helpful. After the worksheet, there is a video call "Soil, Who Needs It?" it's about 15 minutes long, but will probably be very helpful for you. I show it in the classroom each time I lecture on soil. I do not go that in depth on soil, I just cover the basics of it in the classroom and the quiz is based on the basics of the chapter, so when the chapter starts to get into all the chemistry, skip it. I also do not have a Prezi for this chapter, just the two PowerPoints. The first one is new, has less information, second one older, has too much, but that is the one I use in the classroom because it has all of the things in it that I put on the quiz. You will also notice on the page several pictures of hydrangeas which range in color from deep, dark pink, to white, to deep, dark, blue - I put these up as an example of how soil can be acidic, alkaline, or neutral. Hydrangeas change because of the soil PH. Pretty neat huh? There are other plants that do that too, but you can buy hydrangeas at the grocery store so I know most people have seen them. My grandmother loved the blue ones and would plant them in her yard, but here in Southern California, we have mostly alkaline soil, so they would always change to pink.

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