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Earth System Science

Earth System Science. The SOAR-High Project. What is ESS?. The study of the Earth and it’s spheres, and the interactions between the spheres. Example: What happens when the atmosphere touches the oceans?. Topics for this year.

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Earth System Science

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  1. Earth System Science The SOAR-High Project

  2. What is ESS? • The study of the Earth and it’s spheres, and the interactions between the spheres. • Example: What happens when the atmosphere touches the oceans?

  3. Topics for this year • 1st Quarter - Parts of the Earth System, Systems thinking, Online Portfolios, GLOBE measurements, What causes the seasons • 2nd Quarter - Energy in the system, Greenhouse effect, Global Warming, the Electromagnetic Spectrum, Satellites, Research Project • 3rd Quarter - The Atmosphere, structure, Ozone, Bio-Indicators, Climate Change • 4th Quarter - The Lithosphere, soils, faults, Sphere Connections, Research Project

  4. What is SOAR-High? • Six schools working together • Sharing an online curriculum • Class guided by daily teacher message • Videoconferencing • Collaboration between classrooms

  5. SOAR-High Schools • Indiana School for the Deaf • Iowa School for the Deaf • North Carolina School for the Deaf • University High School DHHP (Irvine, CA) • Model Secondary School for the Deaf

  6. Class Activities • Online Portfolios • Projects • Collecting data (GLOBE Program) • Ozone and ozone damage to plants • Aerosols • Air temperature • Lab activities • Lab reports - data analysis

  7. Class Activities • Outside readings • Science Articles • Books: Rachel Carson, etc • Fieldtrips • Computer use - daily messages • Student collaboration

  8. How much do you know about the planet Earth? • Earth is the ____ planet from the Sun. Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto

  9. Vostok, Antarctica is the coldest place on Earth. The lowest temperature measured there was ______ on July 21, 1983. 136 degrees F

  10. The hottest place on Earth in • A. Death Valley, USA • B. El Azizia, Libya • And that temperature was • _______ El Azizia, Libya 136 degrees F

  11. What kind of rocks can float? Pumice, a volcanic rock

  12. How much dust from outer space falls on Earth each year? About 1,000 tons of material

  13. What is the longest river in the world? How long is it? Nile River in Africa is 4,160 miles

  14. What state tends to get the most earthquakes? • Alaska has a magnitude 7 quake almost every year!

  15. Which 2 states have the fewest earthquakes? • Florida and North Dakota

  16. Is the atmosphere made mostly of oxygen? • No. Earth's atmosphere is actually made of about 80% nitrogen. About 19% is oxygen.

  17. Is Earth the largest rocky planet in the Solar system? • Yes…but just barely. • Earth's diameter at the equator is 7,926 miles. Venus is 7,521 miles wide.

  18. What percentage of the Earth’s water is in the oceans? • About 97%

  19. What is Earth’s largest ocean? • The Pacific Ocean - it covers 64 million square miles. • It’s more than 2 times the size of the Atlantic!

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