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For this week, your assignments are to read chapters seven, Atmospheric Disturbances, and eight, Climate and Climate Change, and complete the Europe Map Study. Please review the Prezis, and supplemental material, which you will find here: http://schmidtphysicalgeography.wikispaces.com/Ch+7 http://schmidtphysicalgeography.wikispaces.com/Ch+8 http://schmidtphysicalgeography.wikispaces.com/Europe Your posting assignments are located on this page: http://schmidtphysicalgeography.wikispaces.com/Week+Six+14+Week

You have chapter quizzes for both chapters on Blackboard, as well as a map quiz on Blackboard, and you have posting assignments for each item. Chapter Seven is on atmospheric disturbances, or storms. It’s one of my favorite chapters to teach in class. I have put some supplemental material in the Prezi, mostly towards the end of it, about tornados, and I have posted some articles on the class web page for chapter seven about hurricanes. I thought for chapter seven’s posting assignment, you might want to write about your favorite storm, or one that had some impact on you. If you are lucky enough to have lived in California all of your life, maybe you have never experienced a hurricane or tornado – like me : ) My family is from Rhode Island and my grandmother, great aunt and great uncle used to ALWAYS talk about the “Great Hurricane of 1938,” and I will share that story with you on the Padlet.

 For chapter eight, I have created a Prezi, but it is not as detailed as the old PowerPoint, which you will find third item from the top, or you can go to it directly here: []. I usually use the old PPT in class, but I go through it quickly and tell students that they must read all of the minute details of each climate, because while it's very useful information, it doesn't make for a great lecture. I have created a worksheet to go with this chapter for my onsite students, which you may use to help you put all of the climate information in one place,

 Also, you will notice there are some videos on the page, the first two about the basics of climate, which you may find helpful, the next two are the Steppe (pronounced like step) and the Tundra, because I like to show my students what the steppe looks like, and I like for my students to understand that the tundra is not a barren wasteland, but is actually full of life for the six months when the sun is shining. The last two videos are about climate change and how the snowline is changing with climate change, moving farther up the mountains, with the potential to ruin most of the skiing in the world. You do not have to watch, but it reinforces the part about climate change, and I do see how it has an impact on us locally, because we have several ski lifts and resorts in the local mountains.

Past the videos, you will find the climate charts from the chapter. I put these on the web page because this is the information (exactly) that should go on the climate worksheet. I have also the diagram of vertical zonation, or how things change with elevation, and the "hypothetical" continent. You should pay close attention to that section in the chapter because it gives a great explanation of why the climates are where they are. For chapter eight’s posting assignment, please write about your favorite climate and include a picture of a place located in the climate. I know you have a lot of work to do this week, so you may keep this assignment short and sweet. Just tell us why you like the climate you picked. For Europe, I would like you to write about a place in Europe that you would like to visit, or that you have visited, and you can also keep this one short and sweet too.

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