Environmental+Science

Environmental Science

Wednesday- Feb. 29th, 2012 In your groups you will be asked to complete several different activities and view several videos. Once you are instructed follow the links below and complete the activities were required:


 * __Virtual Earthquake Activity__**

@http://www.sciencecourseware.org/virtualearthquake/vquakeexecute.html

Follow the link above and complete the activity. As you work on this activity, keep all your data for review

Follow the link below, the complete the questions and turn them in. http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/pompeii/interactive/interactive.html
 * __Volcano Activity-__**

Written assignment Based on the structure of a volcano, how do you think an eruption affects the atmosphere and the environment? **(This should be at least two paragraph)**
 * 1) What is the Ring of Fire?
 * 2) What are the layers within the Earth?
 * 3) What are Tectonic Plates?
 * 4) Where are most volcanoes located?
 * 5) What are the categories of volcanoes and describe each?
 * 6) Complete The graphic organizer-Comparison Table on P.69


 * After you have answered the questions you can build your own volcano. (let me see it after you have done so)**

@http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/tut16_ex/proj.html

Go to the website above and complete the activity.

Play with your partners @http://www.scholastic.com/play/volcano.htm

__**The Atmosphere Start 3/7/12**__ View the diagram below the class.

@http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/diagrams/atmosphere/index.html

Follow the link below and complete the tutorial and answer the question on a separate sheet of paper which you will turn in when completed.

@http://sunshine.chpc.utah.edu/labs/atmosphere/ozone/atm_layers_questions.swf

__**Friday- March 16th**__ We will review the instructions as a class then follow the link below and only the sections discussed. @http://www.ucar.edu/learn/1_1_1.htm


 * __Directions for this activity__:**

Click on the link below and follow these instructions: []


 * __Activity 1__**
 * The link will take you to “Introduction to the Atmosphere”
 * Read the page
 * At the bottom of the page answer Concluding Thoughts, 1-4

Click on the link Activity 1: the Goldilocks Principle
 * __Activity 2__**
 * Read the page
 * Answer Assessment Ideas #2

__**Activity 3**__ Go back a page and click on “How High Does The Atmosphere Go”
 * Read the page
 * Scroll to Observation and Question and answer #1-7

Answers should be turned in on a separate sheet of paper and will be graded a test.

__**Monday-March 19th**__ Water Cycle http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/diagrams/watercycle/watercycleq.html

__**Tuesday-March 20th**__ __//Today's Assignment #1//__ Go to the ink below and use the resources there to answer the questions below: @http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Water/water_cycle.htm __//Assignment #2//__ Go to the link below and complete the quiz. Answer on the same sheet of paper used the assignment above. @http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/diagrams/watercycle/watercycleq.html
 * 1) List the forms of precipitation in the water cycle.
 * 2) Describe what happens in the water cycle.
 * 3) What is infiltration?
 * 4) List and explain the three processes of the water cycle.
 * 5) What percent of the Earth is covered by water?

__//Assignment #3 //__ Complete the handouts and turn them in.

April 17th

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Quiz @http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078695104/student_view0/unit1/chapter2/section2/self-check_quizzes-english.html

Complete the food web @http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/explorer/ecosystems/be_an_explorer/map/line_experiment14.swf

Complete the virtual lab @http://www.learner.org/courses/envsci/interactives/ecology/index.php

@http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/virtual_labs/BL_02/BL_02.html

http://ocw.openhighschool.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=3336

__**May 7th-8th**__ __**Activity 1**__ You will be given a handout of the succession worksheet which is also linked below. Open the link and complete only the activities on Web Sites 1 and 2. Answers should be on a separate sheet of paper__**.**__



Again, you will be give a hand of the document below. It is important that you review the first page of the handout. On page 2 copy and paste the link to each set of questions in your browser, then answer questions 1-17 on a separate sheet of paper.
 * __Activity 2__**

May 16th-17th assignment

Follow the link below and complete the biome webquest. http://www.harlingen.isd.tenet.edu/tif/hhs/biome.html#top%20of%20page



@http://www.ruffingeast.org/webquest/biomes/index.htm

May 29th Complete the web quest activity below, you may select the one you want to work on first. I suggest you do the review sheet first.

@http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/sparksj/OCEANS%2011/marine_ecosystems_webquest.htm

@https://college.livetext.com/doc/2963595?print=1 Review sheet below

http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/sparksj/OCEANS%2011/marine_ecosystems_webquest.htm

Web Quest Feb.1

@http://www.rug.henderson.k12.nc.us/teachers/mdecorah-web/webquest