Welcome to Mrs. Mihealsick’s
APES class! 8/31 O - 9/1 W
1. Paste the plate tectonics diagram that you
picked up today into your journal. Label all
letters – work together with your table partner
on this!
Welcome to Mrs. Mihealsick’s
APES class! 9/2 O - 9/3 W
1. Complete the Climatograph pair activity on your
desk (in the Ziplock) with your table partner.
Make sure to answer the yellow questions in
your journal. HINT: The solid line is
precipitation, the dashed line is temperature!!
Please turn in your climatograph homework to the
box, with the correct heading!
Welcome to Mrs. Mihealsick’s
APES class! 9/4 O - 9/8 W
1. What two things need to be in a APES formal lab
hypothesis (see the lab handout)?
2. What items must be done before lab, as the
formal pre-lab assignments?
Welcome to Mrs. Mihealsick’s
APES class! 9/9 O - 9/10 W
Look at the green sheet of student generated
answers on your desk to answer 1 and 2:
1. What do you think are two of the most
important student responsibilities in
maintaining our SCI for next block’s test?
2. What do you think are two of the most
important teacher responsibilities in
maintaining our SCI for next block’s test?
3. What will the procedures and format of
Monday’s test look like?
Welcome to Mrs. Mihealsick’s
APES class! 9/11 O - 9/16 W
**Use the purple sheet on your desk to answer
the questions below****
1. When doing test corrections, what must you
write for every question?
2. If it is a multiple choice question, what do you
need to do?
3. If it is a matching or math question, what do
you need to do?
4. When can you come in and do test corrections?
Welcome to Mrs. Mihealsick’s
APES class! 9/17 O – 9/18 W
1. Draw a diagram on your desk with chalk of what
the normal Pacific basin looks like, including
wind direction and water temp.
2. Draw a diagram on your desk with chalk of what
happens during El Nino in the Pacific basin,
including water temp.
Welcome to APES! 9/21 - 9/22
1. Graph 1: Which season has lower atmospheric
CO2 – summer or winter? Why?
2. Graph 2: Historically what was the highest CO2
concentration? Is the range of values in graph 1
within normal historic fluctuations?
3. Graph 3: Why is the average CO2 concentration
higher for CA than AK?
CARBON CYCLE DIAGRAM
1. Four major reservoirs or “sinks” for carbon (highlight and color code these in red on your
carbon cycle diagram.)
2. Three natural processes that return carbon to
the atmosphere – (blue on diagram)
3. Two major natural processes that take carbon
out of the atmosphere - (green)
4. Two major man-made processes that return
carbon to the atmosphere – (orange)
Welcome to APES! 9/23 O - 9/24 W
1. Please copy down the blue chart from the
Ziplock into your journal, and do the card sort
to fill in the blanks. Once your table has done
the card-sort, grab an orange key from the
aquatic biomes counter to check your work.
Welcome to APES 9/25 O, 9/28 W
1. How is ozone formed in the stratosphere?
2. How is ozone broken down in the
stratosphere (3 steps)?
3. How does the ozone concentration in the
stratosphere impact UVC, UVB, and UVA
light?
9/25 – 9/28 Ocean Acidification
Questions:
1. How much has ocean acidity increased since
the industrial revolution?
2. What will happen to ocean acidity if we
continue to release carbon dioxide at the
current rate?
3. What is going on with the great barrier reef?
4. What is causing ocean acidification?
5. What organisms are affected?
6. What is osteoporosis of the ocean?
Welcome to APES! 9/26 - 9/27
Daily objective: Ecology!
1. What is the window for test corrections?
2. What needs to be on each correction to get
the points?
3. How are multiple choice and matching
different in terms of test corrections?
Please pick up both test stuff and graphic
organizer from each counter.
http://science.discovery.com/videos/brinkinterviews-pollution-destroys-ocean.html