Week+8+Assignments

This week your assignments are to read Chapter Six: Atmospheric Moisture and complete the map study of Europe. Here is a link to the chapter six page: https://schmidtphysicalgeography.wikispaces.com/Ch+6 and here is a link to the Europe page:http://schmidtphysicalgeography.wikispaces.com/Europe

Your posting assignments are located here: http://schmidtphysicalgeography.wikispaces.com/Week+8+Assignments at the bottom of the page.

What a nice time to start chapter six just after a storm! I like it when Mother Nature helps me explain things. This chapter covers all of the water in the atmosphere. This will be the first time we talk about the water cycle; we will see it again in chapter nine when we learn about all of the water on the planet, and again in chapter ten when we cover all of Earth’s great cycles. I do wish for you to have a good understanding of the water cycle, but I also want you to have a feel for how humans alter the water cycle. So as you are learning the different parts, imagine how we change it…

You will learn about EVAPOTRANSIPRATION, and I hope you will then understand that deforestation alters the water cycle. You will learn about runoff, and I hope that you will think of how we pave our cities and how that changes runoff – so that water cannot filter back into the ground, or how we cement over our streams and what impact that has too. Also imagine what kind of things are in the water because of what it flows through, like the oil and brake dust of the streets or the chemicals that people put on their lawns. Imagine also that much, if not most of our water is imported from other places. Imagine the impact taking the water away from those places has, and then look at the impact we have here using that water to make green lawns, parks, fill swimming pools, etc. I have this talk with all of my students, so I hope that I can put your minds in the right direction for this chapter. Water is so important in California, and this is the first place we get to talk about it.

I have several videos on the page to help with the concepts in this chapter and some I like to show for fun. I hope you will enjoy the Lenticular Clouds video and the Very Scary Clouds video, as well as the video about the Russians cloud seeding. The last mayor of Moscow got himself elected by promising to stop snow in the city. This was done through cloud seeding, which we are actually the pioneers of here in the US.

I do give extra credit for cloud pictures. If you go close to the bottom of this page: http://schmidtphysicalgeography.wikispaces.com/San+Bernardino+Valley+College you will find a Padlet of cloud pictures, 5 points for posting and identifying. I grade these at the end of the semester, so you have until May to post one.

I am also opening the Europe Map Quiz. I will leave copies of the map with our secretary, Rose Garcia again. I hope you enjoy Europe.

You will have two writing assignments, one for chapter six and one for Europe.

Your sources are due this week. I would like you to just email them to me, either pasted into an e-mail, or as a word document. I created a gmail account just for you to e-mail assignments to so they will not get lost in my regular inbox with all of the messages from my other classes. Please e-mail your sources to me at: Schmidt.physicalgeography@gmail.com. This is how I will want you to turn in your other assignments as well. I will send this in a separate announcement too because I realize it is at the end of a long announcement. If you have problems or questions, please continue to use the ProfessorLisaS@gmail.com or text me at 760 440 8977.

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