Thurs Dec 15
QFD: I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. A. Whitney Brown
?FD: Describe a Cold Front? Warm front?
Objective 5c. Students know the origin and effects of temperature inversions.
1) day 1 0f 2 Weather forecast
WOD: Detrimental – a negative consequence
You will create a 3-5 minute Weather forecast
1) You must write a script for your weather forecast
2) you must edit, and film your video (Optional for EC) Due Jan 15
3) You must create a colored weather map, that includes:
4 cities with high/low temp., 3 forms of precipitation, 2 fronts, a H and a L pressure systems, cloud covers & wind speeds for each city, ec. if you mention a temperature inversion in proper context
5) You may create your map using paint or other program ( optional)
6) You may create your entire presentation using windows movie maker or imovie (optional)
7) You may create a commercial, your commercial should reflect a positive message
I will not provide a camera and time during the last few days in December for your group to film your weather forecast so you need to get together with classmates over the break to finish. You an do this project by yourself
Wed Dec 14
QFD: I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. – Henny Youngman
?FD: What is a Front?
Objective 5c. Students know the origin and effects of temperature inversions.
1) benchmark 2 review
Tues Dec 13
QFD: Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. ANON
?FD:Where do air masses start? where do they descend? What features are in bands around the earth?
Objective 5c. Students know the origin and effects of temperature inversions.
1) PHESCh20atmosphereweather
2)Quiz
1. What type of front forms when warm air moves into an area with cooler air?
occluded front
stationary front
warm front
cold front
2. In what direction do most weather systems move across the continental United States?
from west to east
from east to west
from north to south
from south to north
3. What conditions are necessary for the formation of a thunderstorm?
cold, dry unstable air
warm, dry stable air
warm, humid unstable air
cold, humid stable air
4. Indian summer in New York in the autumn is the result of what type of air mass?
maritime tropical air mass
maritime polar air mass
continental polar air mass
continental tropical air mass
5. An air mass that forms over northern Canada is a
maritime tropical air mass.
maritime polar air mass.
continental polar air mass.
continental tropical air mass.
6. In a hurricane, the highest wind speeds and heaviest rainfall occur
inside the eye.
in the eye wall.
along the hurricane’s leading edge.
along the hurricane’s trailing edge.
7. In the midwestern United States, a middle-latitude cyclone is a
tropical hurricane.
exceptionally large tornado.
large center of high pressure.
large center of low pressure.
8. Which air mass would be characterized by warm and dry air?
maritime tropical air mass
maritime polar air mass
continental polar air mass
continental tropical air mass
9. Tornadoes form in
all thunderstorms.
association with anticyclones.
association with high-pressure centers.
some severe thunderstorms.
10. Lake-effect snow forms in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada
directly over the Great Lakes.
on the leeward sides of the Great Lakes.
on the windward sides of the Great Lakes.
along the Atlantic coast.
Airpressure PHESCh19
11. In the northern hemisphere, the Coriolis effect causes winds to be deflected
to the left.
to the right.
upwards.
downwards.
12. What instrument is used to measure wind speed?
wind vane
anemometer
mercury barometer
aneroid barometer
13. The condition that occurs when there is an area of unusually warm surface water in the eastern Pacific Ocean along the coasts of Peru and Ecuador is called
La Niña.
a monsoon.
El Niño.
an anticyclone.
14. A westerly wind is blowing from
east to west.
north to south.
south to north.
west to east.
15. What is the ultimate cause of wind on Earth?
friction
the Coriolis effect
unequal heating of Earth by the sun
unequal heating of the land and the oceans
16. Fair weather is usually associated with
anticyclones.
cyclones.
low-pressure centers.
surface convergence.
17. Where are the trade winds located?
at 30°N and 30°S latitudes
at 90°N and 90°S latitudes
between the equator and the subtropical highs
between the subtropical highs and the polar fronts
18. In the southern hemisphere, a cyclone is a
high-pressure center with winds blowing clockwise.
high-pressure center with winds blowing counterclockwise.
low-pressure center with winds blowing clockwise.
low-pressure center with winds blowing counterclockwise.
19. A mountain breeze occurs when winds blow
from the ocean towards a mountain.
up the sides of a mountain from a valley.
down the sides of a mountain into a valley.
from the land towards the ocean.
20. Which of the following areas would have the lowest air pressure?
the top of Mt. Everest
a city at sea level
the top of a small hill
a city at 1,600 meters above sea level

Mon Dec 12
QFD:QFD: When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.” Bernard Bailey
?FD:Name the 4 main steps in the water cycle?
Objective:5a. Students know how differential heating of Earth results in circulation patterns in the atmosphere and oceans that globally distribute the heat.
1) film clip hadley cells
2) air masses fronts
3) Notes

Thur Dec 8
QFD: Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. Albert Einstein
?FD: How is air pressure measured? what units is air pressure measured in?
Objective: 4c. Students know the different atmospheric gases that absorb the Earth’s thermal radiation and the mechanism and significance of the greenhouse effect.
1) Read @ fossil Fuels (notes)
2) answer questions @ fossil fuels













Wed Dec 7 ( Pearl Harbor Day) Min. Day
QFD : Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”-General Dwight D. Eisenhower
?FD: Could Humans survive on Mars? Name 3 problems Humans will face colonizing Mars
Objective: 5b Students know the relationship between the rotation of Earth and the circular motions of ocean currents and air in pressure centers.
1) Handouts from Monday

Tues Dec 6
QFD: Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring. Doug Larson
?FD: What is the first step in a lab?
Objective: Students will demonstrate their knowledge of the California Earth Science standards regarding the atmosphere by answering the first 8 questions for Quarter 2
1) Make sure Quarter 1 questions are answered
2) Answer 2nd Quarter questions 1-8
3) Make sure MrBorden has proper link for your website attached to class web page
4) Vote on the Poll EC 10 pts
Take Our Poll
Mon Dec 5
QFD: The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. anon, so for being average!
?FD: What layer of the atmosphere protects us from solar radiation? What is this molecule?
Objective: 5b Students know the relationship between the rotation of Earth and the circular motions of ocean currents and air in pressure centers.
1) lab writeup

2) Answers to questions wikispaces quarter 2
3)Air pressure

My favorite Holiday Cathedral City Lion Fan

Mon Nov 28
QFD: In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Hugh Walpole
?FD: Describe the 3 pathways of a ray of ultraviolet radiation?
Objective: To understand All standards 4 and 8 at a level to teach others
1)
2) Test Review

Earliest atmosphere

The outgassings of the Earth were stripped away by solar winds early in the history of the planet until a steady state was established, the first atmosphere. Based on today’s volcanic evidence, this atmosphere would have contained 60% hydrogen, 20% oxygen (mostly in the form of water vapor), 10% carbon dioxide, 5 to 7% hydrogen sulfide, and smaller amounts of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, free hydrogen, methane and inert gases.[citation needed]

A major rainfall led to the buildup of a vast ocean, enriching the other agents, first carbon dioxide and later nitrogen and inert gases. A major part of carbon dioxide exhalations were soon dissolved in water and built up carbonate sediments.

Second atmosphere

Water-related sediments have been found dating from as early as 3.8 billion years ago.[17] About 3.4 billion years ago, nitrogen was the major part of the then stable “second atmosphere”. An influence of life has to be taken into account rather soon in the history of the atmosphere, since hints of early life forms are to be found as early as 3.5 billion years ago.[18] The fact that this is not perfectly in line with the 30% lower solar radiance (compared to today) of the early Sun has been described as the “faint young Sun paradox”.

The geological record however shows a continually relatively warm surface during the complete early temperature record of the Earth with the exception of one cold glacial phase about 2.4 billion years ago. In the late Archaean eon an oxygen-containing atmosphere began to develop, apparently from photosynthesizing algae which have been found as stromatolite fossils from 2.7 billion years ago. The early basic carbon isotopy (isotope ratio proportions) is very much in line with what is found today,[19] suggesting that the fundamental features of the carbon cycle were established as early as 4 billion years ago.

Third atmosphere
Oxygen content of the atmosphere over the last billion years
The accretion of continents about 3.5 billion years ago[20] added plate tectonics, constantly rearranging the continents and also shaping long-term climate evolution by allowing the transfer of carbon dioxide to large land-based carbonate storages. Free oxygen did not exist until about 1.7 billion years ago and this can be seen with the development of the red beds and the end of the banded iron formations. This signifies a shift from a reducing atmosphere to an oxidising atmosphere. O2 showed major ups and downs until reaching a steady state of more than 15%.[21] The following time span was the Phanerozoic eon, during which oxygen-breathing metazoan life forms began to appear.

Currently, anthropogenic greenhouse gases are increasing in the atmosphere. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, this increase is the main cause of global warming.[22]
from wikipedia.com
1) What is not a characteristic of the earliest forms of life?
a) they need carbon b) they need water c) they need oxygen d) they need nitrogen
2) Do the wavelenghths increase or decrease when solar radiation reflects off of earths surface?
3) What detrimental affect do CFC’s have on our environment?
4) Radiation can be used by? a) plants b) water c) soil d) none our used
5) Which would increase the greenhouse effect quicker? use of gasoline powered vehicles or eating more beef
6) how did oxygen get into our atmosphere?
7) If a person travels up a tall mountain, the pressure and temperature will? increase or decrease?
8) draw a picture of a sea breeze on a hot sunny day
9) Explain why there is more carbon in the air during the winter in the northern hemisphere than in the summer
10) About ____ % of solar radiation is absorbed at Earths surface?

1) Movie global warming
2) 3 paragraph Essay
Thurs Nov 17
QFD: For NASA, space is still a high priority. Dan Quayle
?FD: Describe the possible pathways of a ray of light ?
Objective: 4a. Students know the relative amount of incoming solar energy compared with Earth’s internal energy and the energy used by society
1) Students will complete a vocabulary exercise
2) Students will write a perfect paragraph using the terms Greenhouse effect, carbon dioxide, Global Warming, infrared radiation, ultraviolet radiation – EC if you can also use abundant properly in your perfect paragraph
Notes
Earliest atmosphere

The outgassings of the Earth were stripped away by solar winds early in the history of the planet until a steady state was established, the first atmosphere. Based on today’s volcanic evidence, this atmosphere would have contained 60% hydrogen, 20% oxygen (mostly in the form of water vapor), 10% carbon dioxide, 5 to 7% hydrogen sulfide, and smaller amounts of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, free hydrogen, methane and inert gases.[citation needed]

A major rainfall led to the buildup of a vast ocean, enriching the other agents, first carbon dioxide and later nitrogen and inert gases. A major part of carbon dioxide exhalations were soon dissolved in water and built up carbonate sediments.

Second atmosphere

Water-related sediments have been found dating from as early as 3.8 billion years ago.[17] About 3.4 billion years ago, nitrogen was the major part of the then stable “second atmosphere”. An influence of life has to be taken into account rather soon in the history of the atmosphere, since hints of early life forms are to be found as early as 3.5 billion years ago.[18] The fact that this is not perfectly in line with the 30% lower solar radiance (compared to today) of the early Sun has been described as the “faint young Sun paradox”.

The geological record however shows a continually relatively warm surface during the complete early temperature record of the Earth with the exception of one cold glacial phase about 2.4 billion years ago. In the late Archaean eon an oxygen-containing atmosphere began to develop, apparently from photosynthesizing algae which have been found as stromatolite fossils from 2.7 billion years ago. The early basic carbon isotopy (isotope ratio proportions) is very much in line with what is found today,[19] suggesting that the fundamental features of the carbon cycle were established as early as 4 billion years ago.

Third atmosphere

Oxygen content of the atmosphere over the last billion years
The accretion of continents about 3.5 billion years ago[20] added plate tectonics, constantly rearranging the continents and also shaping long-term climate evolution by allowing the transfer of carbon dioxide to large land-based carbonate storages. Free oxygen did not exist until about 1.7 billion years ago and this can be seen with the development of the red beds and the end of the banded iron formations. This signifies a shift from a reducing atmosphere to an oxidising atmosphere. O2 showed major ups and downs until reaching a steady state of more than 15%.[21] The following time span was the Phanerozoic eon, during which oxygen-breathing metazoan life forms began to appear.

Currently, anthropogenic greenhouse gases are increasing in the atmosphere. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, this increase is the main cause of global warming.[22]
from wikipedia.com
Wed Nov 16
QFD: A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin
?FD Name an object in the 4 layers of the atmosphere?
Objective: Ess 4 b. Students know the fate of incoming solar radiation in terms of reflection, absorption, and photosynthesis.
1) Read Wind, lesson pgs 536-544 Sr all
2) Lab guidelines
3) vocabulary
Tues Nov 15
QFD: For NASA, space is still a high priority. Dan Quayle
?FD: Describe the possible pathways of a ray of light ?
Objective: 4a. Students know the relative amount of incoming solar energy compared with Earth’s internal energy and the energy used by society
1) 8aworksheetquiz2 QUIZ
2) check pictures/words
3) new seating chart
4)
Mon Nov 14
QFD: I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Chinese Proverb
?FD: What is a barometer?
Word of the day = Abundant (present in great quantity; more than adequate;)
Objective: 4. Energy enters the Earth system primarily as solar radiation and eventually escapes as heat. As a basis for understanding this concept: 4a. Students know the relative amount of incoming solar energy compared with Earth’s internal energy and the energy used by society.
4b. Students know the fate of incoming solar radiation in terms of reflection, absorption, and photosynthesis.
1) read heat transfer 532-535 , concept maps 2, and perfect paragraph
Notes:
Pg 526 Energy in the atmosphere
Energy travels from the Sun to Earth as electromagnetic waves – mostly visible light, infrared radiation, and ultraviolet radiation.
Earth’s surface absorbs most of the solar radiation that enters the atmosphere.
Clouds, dust, and gases reflect and scatter some light molecules. Water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and dust absorb small amounts of solar energy.
When earth’s surface is heated, it radiates some of the energy back into the atmosphere in the form of longer wavelength radiation.





pg 532 Heat Transfer
The energy of motion of molecules of a substance is called thermal energy.
Three forms of heat transfer are:
Conduction – direct heating of one substance by another
Convection – Colder, slow moving molecules fall making Hotter, faster moving molecules rise.
Radiation- direct heat transfer from ultraviolet sun rays
All three forms work together to heat Earth’s troposphere and make our atmosphere suitable for living things.