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This week you will be reading Chapter Nine: The Hydrosphere and Chapter Ten: Cycles and Patterns in the Biosphere You will find the Prezi and other supplemental information here:

http://schmidtphysicalgeography.wikispaces.com/Ch+9 And here: http://schmidtphysicalgeography.wikispaces.com/Ch+10 Your research questions are also due for your project. Your questions are:

// 1. What is it? //  //2. Where is it or where is it happening?//  //3. How does it affect life on Earth? Or how is life on Earth affected by it?//  //4. Is there some problem or issue with your topic?//  //5. What are some solutions?//

// Please e-mail the answers to your research questions to me at this e-mail address: //schmidt.physicalgeography@gmail.com You get 5 points for this assignment even if it has errors. The purpose is so that I have a chance to look at your answers, give you feedback if there is anything missing or incorrect and you have a chance to make any changes before the final project is due.

You also have a posting assignment – you can pick to write about chapter 9 or 10, or both. Your posting assignment is located at the bottom of this page: http://schmidtphysicalgeography.wikispaces.com/Week+8+14+Week

About chapters 9 & 10: You will notice that I have a lot of supplemental information on chapter nine. Water is an extremely important issue in our area. I have a link to the dust cams over Owens (dry) lake, which was the largest lake in California and was dried up by Los Angeles stealing its water very quickly. Now it's an air pollution problem for much of California. You might enjoy a look at the dust cams - see what Owens Lake looks like today. It has a sprinkler system on it to keep the dust down, but it doesn't cover the whole lake, so there is still a problem. There is also a video about Mono Lake - the oldest lake in North America - just north of Owens Lake, which almost met the same fate. You may like the story of Mono Lake, and it is in the textbook. I also have some videos on the Aral Sea, which was the 4th largest lake in the world, but is pretty much gone now. It's also in the chapter, but the video is newer. There is a video about Lake Chad - also in the chapter and on your map. I have a video about salinity in the oceans, I always show this one in class, it's newer than the text. I have several other articles on the page related to the chapter. It's not required reading and the videos are not required watching, but I think they add to the experience and are often helpful to understand the textbook.

Both of these chapters are near and dear to my heart. I have several videos and articles posted on the chapter ten page:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">I always show this video [] on Rachel Carson in class, so I hope you will watch it. I have a feeling you will all come away from this chapter with a greater understanding of why we have environmental regulations, and you may not want to use pesticide any longer (I do not, because you cannot control it once you let it loose in the environment.) We always have a good talk about the mountain lion P22, AKA, the Griffith Park Mountain Lion - who was poisoned by rodenticide (rat poison) not intentionally, but because once you let it out into the environment, it will travel through the food chain and start taking out the creatures at the top because of something we call bioaccumulation. Well my friends, guess where we are in the food chain and what that means for us? Please take a look at the articles about P22, or watch the videos.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">There is a lot of information in this small chapter, and I think most of it is really important to us. I have several articles and videos on the page to try to show my students how these things in this chapter are real and are happening all around us all the time. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoy teaching it. Another video I like to show in class is about the wolves in Yellowstone and what happened when they were reintroduced -

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 14pt;">[] I know that some of the material in this chapter is not "happy material" but this video will help you feel better.

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