Per 5,
2014 Dolphin Text.
6.1
Due:
Wed
1/14
Reading Notes:
What Causes Variations
in Solar Radiation of
Earth?
What Causes Earth’s
Seasons?
Reading Notes:
How Does Uneven Solar
Heating Affect Earth?
Pg 164, Figure 6.1 Earth’s Seasons.
Ecliptic (plane of the ecliptic), Vernal equinox,
summer solstice, Tropic of Cancer, autumnal
equinox, winter solstice, Tropic of Capricorn,
declination, tropics, Arctic Circle, Antarctic
Circle, (Albedo)
Pg 165, Figure 6.2
Solar Radiation received
Albedo
6.3
Due
Thursday
1/15
Reading Notes:
What Physical
Properties Does the
Atmosphere Possess?
Pg 167, Table 6.2 Composition of Dry Air
Pg 167, Fig 6.4 Temperature profile of the
atmosphere
Pg 167 6.5 Convection in a room
Pg 168, Fig 6.6, High and Low Atm pressure
Troposphere, convection cell, wind,
6.4
Due:
Skip
6.5
Due:
Friday
1/23
Reading Notes:
How Does the Coriolis
Effect Influence Moving
Objects?
Reading Notes:
What Global
Atmospheric Circulation
Patterns Exist?
6.6
Due
Monday
1/20
Reading Notes:
What Weather and
Climate Patterns Does
the Ocean Exhibit?
6.2
Due:
Wed
1/14
Coriolis effect,
Online Animation:
Coriolis Effect
Hadley cells, Ferrel cells, polar cell,
subtropical highs, polar highs, equatorial low,
subpolar low, trade winds, northeast trade
winds, southeast trade winds, southeast trade
winds, prevailing westerly wind belts, polar
easterly wind belts, doldrums, Intertropical
Convergence Zone (ITCZ), horse latitudes,
polar front,
weather, climate, cyclonic flow, anticyclonic
flow, sea breezes, land breezes, storms, air
masses, warm front, cold front, jet stream,
tropical cyclones, hurricanes, typhoons,
cyclones, Saffir-Simpson Scale, eye of the
hurricane, storm surge, equatorial region,
tropical region, subtropical regions, temperate
regions, subpolar region, polar region,
Online Animation:
Global Wind
Patterns;
Seasonal Pressure
and Precipitation
Patterns
None
Pg 173, Fig 6.10 Atmospheric circulation and
wind belts
Pg 177, Fig 6.12
Pg 178 Fig 6.13 Sea and Land Breezes
ON MAP handout: Pg 179 Fig 6.14, Air
Masses.
Pg 179 Fig 6.15 Warm & Cold Fronts
Pg 180 Fig 6.5 Saffir-Simpson Scale
Online Animation:
Earth-Sun Relations
Online Animation:
Cyclones and
Anticyclones;
Cold Fronts and
Warm Fronts;
Hurricanes.
6.7
Due:
Monday
1/26
Reading Notes:
How Do Sea Ice and
Icebergs Form
6.8
Due:
Thursday
1/29
Reading Notes:
What Causes the
Atmosphere’s
Greenhouse Effect?
6.9
Due
Thursday
1/29
Reading Notes:
Can Power from the
Wind Be Harnessed as a
Source of Energy?
Due:
Monday
2/2
No work due. We will be talking about the chapter concepts in class, but you may begin studying for the tests:
Publisher’s online help at, Mastering oceanography.
http://www.pearsonmylabandmastering.com/northamerica/masteringgeologyandoceanography/
Wed 2/4
Continue Mastering Oceanography.
http://www.pearsonmylabandmastering.com/northamerica/masteringgeologyandoceanography/
Thursday
2/5
Quia: Practice Vocabulary Test
Vocabulary Test in Class Ch 6.
Monday
NO SCHOOL Lincoln’s Birthday
Tuesday
2/10
7:00 am
Quia: Ch 6 Practice Test
Mastering Oceanography points will be awarded.
Tuesday
2/10
Ch 6 Test
Pg 187 Fig 6.21, Sea ice ONLY (c).
Not (a) & (b)
Pg 190 Fig 6.24 How a greenhouse works.
Pg 192 Fig 6.25 Earth’s Heat budget
sea ice, icebergs, pancake ice, ice floes, shelf
ice
greenhouse effect, heat budget,
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC), Kyoto Protocol, iron hypothesis,
none
Online Animation:
Global Warming;
Atmospheric Energy
Balance.