Questions

For each question, provide a photo and answer the question.  Email me the document at marciapowellATgmail.com


 What us the difference between decay and litter?
How does fuel serve as a storage unit for carbon and nitrogen?
Show the two soil types.  Which has more nitrogen and how do you know?
When does a leaf stop being a plant and start decaying?
With more people do we just need more plants?
What do fuel efficient vehicles have to do with these cycles?
As more human beings live in.cities, what happens to the issue of fertilizer?

9/27 Understanding Earth Cycles

http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/earth.html

9/26 group project (Your World)

Scientists need to provide evidence and reasoning for the claims they make.

1. Indicate a divergent plate.
2. Indicate at least two convergent plates.
3. What is happening underneath the volcanos?  Explain.
4. Does your planet have a 'ring of fire'?   Why or why not?
5. Are your continents moving with your plates?  Explain.
6. Are your valleys evidence of plate tectonics?    Why or why not.

7.  Here is a map of Pangaea.  Go through the library thinkquest on this concept. 

Does your planet have a Pangaea distribution?  If so, give me fossil evidence to support this.  If not, show me how fossils might differ from one continent to another.   

9/24

Part 1:  Google Earth.

Download the .kmz layer file and double-click.  This should open up the Google Earth program and the coloration you were shown Friday should be visible.

You will be using the Google Earth program to do the following questions in your notebook.  Number from 5. to 24. in your notebook as you go along.  You will be in teams of 2 or 3 based on the teams you used to make your planet.  You may play Pandora music, but you SHOULD NOT be on YouTube.


Part 2:  Your planet

Using the diagram you created on Friday, you need to label a converging plate, a diverging plate, a side-to-side fault, and a place where crust is being pushed under another layer.   Next to each of these, you will need to provide an explanation in one to two sentences of why you think this is so.

9/20 Plate Tectonics

Click to Run

In your notebook, you will discuss:

 explain the differences between oceanic and continental crust (density, composition, temperature and thickness are ideas)

predict how changes in composition and temperature change crust density and buoyancy.

Draw a time series for different types of plate boundaries and their motions

Figure the type of plate boundary given images or descriptions of surface features.

Explain which types of plate boundaries create crust, and which destroy crust

Weather form

9/19 GLOBE protocols

As a class, we will be taking a Parking Lot protocol and a Football Practice field protocol for clouds, temp, surface. This will be entered into a shared Google Doc. When you are finished, answer the following questions in your green book. 1. Based on your observations, and the wind pattern, is Wisconsin or Illinois likely WARMER or COLDER than Iowa today. Explain your reasoning. 2. When we went out, we saw examples of radiation, convection, and conduction. Please give 2 examples of each.

9/18 Weather and Heat Transfer

 Start Google Earth and type in your address.   Write down your entire latitude and longitude.

You will need to do two protocols....one for home, and one for school over the next two weeks.  You may check out one of the orange thermometers to use at home.

The protocols here at school may be done in the front parking lot, or the football practice field.

Go to:   http://www.uni.edu/storm/wximages/images/sfc_map.gif    Make a sketch of the US in your notebook and draw where you think the winds are moving.

Then, go to:   http://www.uni.edu/storm/wximages/images/skywind_stplot.gif   Copy down three of the symbols.   What do you think they mean?