April 19, 2010

Urban Environmental Geographies continued...

Tampa Florida

Honolulu, Hawaii

LINK to the assignment... Let me know how long they take... this one should take about an hour. Let me know what is taking the most time. What I hope is that you're taking about half the time lookin information up, and about half the time thinking and responding to the "thought questions" meaning... Page 1: Star the three weather / climate characteristics that affect this location the most; Page2: the important characteristics; Page 3: discussion.

NOTE: your final exam will be a comparison of two of these case histories OR a case history for a place we haven't done in class but that is in the USGS "Ground-Water Regions of the United States" LINK to USGS web site and LINK to copy on course website.

TAMPA, FLORIDA. Fly there on Google Earth; Look at the terrain, look at the contour map, look at the scene from the ground; Look at a profile of the terrain and sketch the profile on your handout --

To add the contours of USGS to Google Earth... download the app from: http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/002970.php

To make an elevation profile using Google Maps Go to http://www.heywhatsthat.com/profiler.html

BREATHE DEEPLY
and think... State the obvious... Think the five subsystems of Earth systems and think one or two obvious thoughts about the region for each of the subsystems of Earth systems. Now you're ready to do the assignment.

Start with the HYDROLOGIC SETTING - the PROFILE. Go to the section of USGS Water Suppy Paper 2242 (Ground-Water Regions of the United States) LINK . Note how the text "answers" most of the questions of your assignment. How lovely. Control your enthusiasm and understand the figures. FIGURE 44 USGS ws-2242. and FIGURE 45 USGS ws-2242.

BIG SCIENCE CONCEPT NUMBER 1... Energy (water flows down gradient... potential energy... kinetic energy).

BIG SCIENCE CONCEPT NUMBER 2... Characteristics of matter that matter to urban environmental geographers... DENSITY... fresh and salt water Hawaii

BIG SCIENCE CONCEPT NUMBER 3... Water cycle

BIG SCIENCE CONCEPT NUMBER 4... Budgets... Change in storage equals change in what comes in and what goes out

BIG SCIENCE CONCEPT NUMBER 5... Effects of Earth systems processes are cumulative.

TEAMS of two... draw the profile on the white boards.

We could do this for Hawaii, too.... same BIG CONCEPTS -- LINK to figure 48 of WS2242. LINK to USGS pub pdf

So... that's the plan... from now to the end of the semester... practice practice practice... and come see me for extra coaching.

 

 

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