Urban Environmental Geography – HW05 Due Feb 10, Wednesday.

NOTE!!! This version of HW05 did not get posted for class. An oversight. I'm so sorry. Use either the posted-by-class version or this one. This version is meant to be more helpful because it gives you a structure to think with... so I think this structure is easier... but either can be used. Reminder... this course is about Urban Environmental Geography... physical settings of cities... AND the course is a general-education science-explorations course. Keep those two concepts in mind and you'll focus on what's important.)

(Turn your assigments and green sheets into piles on the back table, not into your lab books. The piles let me know they need grading.)

Two parts to your homework:

PART A. 10 points -- Complete Encounter Geosystems Chapters 4 and 5.

Chapter 4 has 19 questions.... do 16 for full credit.

Chapter 5 has 27 questions... do 22 for full credit

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

Apply Earth systems concepts to your urban setting. Critical thinking.

Pick two (2) of the following.

· Air pressure patterns

· Wind patterns

· Wind power potential

· Water vapor

· Clouds and lifting mechanisms

· Natural hazards of cyclones, tornadoes, hurricanes

(1) Explain conditions at your urban setting. One way to do this is to do the lab section of your workbook for your urban setting.

This will be a few sentences with some qualitative and quantitative information.

(2) Think Earth systems thoughts...

Think Earth systems thoughts... meaning... go through a checklist in your mind... cut and paste this list. Think about each... but not all will be affected in a way that matters to you as an urban environmental geographer... but you still should be open to the idea that it might... so go through the check list. Jot down some ideas... think about all of them... jot down ideas for 3 of the 5.

how does __________ affect the atmospheric conditions of my city (weather and climate)?

how does __________ affect the hydrosphere relationships of my city (water supplies, water issues)?

how does __________ affect the biosphere of my city (directly its flora and fauna, and its "footprint" its agricultural dependencies)?

how does __________ affect the geosphere relationships (tectonics, erosion / deposition... directly or indirectly)?

how does __________ affect the anthrosphere of my city (quality of life, metabolism of the city (what it consumes, and produces, including wastes)?

(3) Write a paragraph (not more than two) that explain(s) how the phenomenon affects your urban setting. Such as “How (air pressure patterns... )___________ affect your urban setting and/or how your urban setting affects ________.”

Said differently: Collect and state the evidence (observations / conditions). Then think about it. Then analyze consequences. You're role-modeling what it is to be an urban environmental geographer.

(a) Evidence --- first have some facts, observations.

(b) Understand and appreciate webs of relationships.

(c) Apply what you know to a city you care about .

If this is not clear, ask me.