Day 22 in SCI110: Debates
- Spring 2005 Schedule
- Last time:
- Hydrologic cycle
- ocean/evaporation/precipitation/runoff
- Where's the water?
- surface water
- groundwater (25 times the amount of surface)
- Salt water (97%)
- How can we foul things up?
- Plate tectonics
- Structure of the earth
- Assigned topics for in-class presentations next Thursday
(p. 54)
- In-class worksheet: pp. 50-51
Use the internet (e.g. the USGS
website) and your text.
- Today:
- Debates:
- Drilling for oil in ANWAR
- Local Stream Contamination
- Healthy Forests Initiative
- Lunken Airport Expansion -- postponed?
- Discuss the answers to the worksheet from last
time (pp. 50-51) on plate tectonics
- We'll end by using any time remaining to prepare for plate
tectonics presentations next time.
- Homework:
- Read
- Chp. 15: 296-307 (The Earth's Surface)
- Prepare for plate tectonics presentations
- p. 318, QFT 1-5
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