Urban Environmental Geography – HW05                Due Feb 3, Wednesday.

 

SOME CHANGES TO SCHEDULE… refer to the course website not the sheet I handed out the first day. What has changed? The labs have taken on more importance as learning environments so I want you to have a full week to do most of them. In general, assignments will be the chapters of Encounter Geosystems plus an additional worksheet with question or two about your urban setting so that we keep committed to learning about cities and their environmental constraints and impacts.

 

Three parts to your homework:

PART A.

A system for homework and your atlas. You’ll have a binder that you don’t take home, and that reverts to me at the end of the semester. Think of it as a lab notebook. I’ll bring them to class on Wednesdays. You’ll keep all your assignments and handouts in them. This should make the turning in of the atlas at the midterm and final much easier and reduce potential for paper chaos. At the end of the semester, I’ll give you all the insides of the binder, and I’ll get back the binder. The cover page of the binder (it has a clear front sleeve) cries out for creativity or at least a sheet with your name on it, your city… Make such a sheet. I’ll return green sheets to you directly, but return homework to you in your lab book.

 

PART B. 10 points --

Chapter 2 has 17 questions.... do 15 for full credit.

Chapter 3 has 18 questions... do 15 for full credit

Complete Encounter Geosystems Chapters 2 and 3. Turn it in (on pile on back desks) February 5.

 

PART C. 20 points.... this part is much more important.

Application to your urban setting. Critical thinking.

Pick two of the following and write a paragraph about each…

How ___________ affect(s) your urban setting and/or how your urban setting affects ________.

 

·       Net Radiation

·       Solar Altitude and Declination

·       Albedo

·       Outgoing Longwave Energy

·       The Potential for Solar Power

·       Global Temperature Ranges