Here are the quizzes from the past year so that you can look over them and study them for the final. Let me know if you have any questions.
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
Thursday, April 25, 2019
4/23 Earth Science class and homework due 4/30
Hi folks,
Today we reviewed a bit of the Moon phases and seasons and we also went outside to explore the scale of the Moon, Earth and Sun. I'm afraid there is no recording this week since much of the content took place outside.
For homework this week,
Read this webpage http://www.planetsforkids.org/moon-moon.html
Answer the following questions. If you missed class this week you may need to do an internet search to find a few of the answers.
- Why do we always see the same face of the Moon?
2. How old is Moon?
3. What does the Moon have to do with tides?
4. How often do we have tides?
5. Who was the first person to really look at the Moon? When did he do this?
6. Who was the first person to walk on the Moon? When did he do this?
7. How far away is the Moon from the Earth?
8. How far away is the Sun from the Earth?
9. Draw a picture of the Earth and Moon to scale. (Just the sizes, not the distance)
10. Why am I not asking you to draw a picture of the Sun and Earth to scale?
11. If you could drive to the Moon at 100 miles per hour, how many hours would it take you to get there. If each day is 24 hours, how many days would that be?
12. If you could drive to the Sun at 100 miles per hour, how many hours would that take you? How many days would that be?
13. Fill out the illustration included in the email.
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
4/16 Earth Science update and homework due 4/23 PLEASE LOOK AT THIS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!
Hi folks,
Today we continued talking a look at our nearest celestial body by exploring the moon and its phases.
Two things for homework this week:
1. Each evening at about the same time (9:00 or so), go outside and stand in the same spot. Use the same reference point each night (tree branch, chimney etc.) to see if the Moon is in a different part of the night sky. Observe the Moon's position in the sky and observe the phase. Take a picture if you can. Notice if the Moon is in a different location each night, and, if so, how is that location changing. Please write down the date, phase and how the Moon's position has changed from the night before. The full moon will be on Friday!
For example:
4/16 9:00 - Waxing Gibbous - Just over the top of my neighbors chimney.
4/17 9:05 - Waxing Gibbous (almost full) A little higher and to the right than last night.
2. Go to this website http://astro.unl.edu/naap/lps/lps.html read each of the background pages on the site and then click on "Lunar Phase Simulator" towards the bottom of the page.
Use the simulator to complete pages 5/11 to 10/11 in the .pdf below. By the time you are done with this you should have a very nice understanding for the relationship between the Moon, Sun, Earth and their interactions.
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
4/9 Earth Science update and homework due 4/16
Hi folks,
Today we launched from the surface of the Earth into space as we took a look at the how the relationship between the Sun and the Earth create the seasons.
Next week we will take a look at the moon and its phases.
Homework for this week is to:
Read 660 - 665 in the text book.
Do questions on page 684 #'s 1-9
Do questions on page 685 #'s 16 - 18
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Earth Science Recording - Weather Review
Hi folks,
Here is the recording from this week's class. It is the recording from my Chapel Hill class. The other recording did not turn out very well. The content is the same as what we covered in class. Enjoy!
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
4/2 Earth Science update and homework due 4/9
Hi folks,
This week in class we finished off our weather unit by doing a quick review of what we've learned in the past several weeks. To reinforce what we've been learning in a fun way we did a game show where the students came up with the questions by going through all their notes for the year. The teams were all quite close!
For homework this week do the following questions. These all come from quizzes, homework and notes so be sure to look over your materials for the answers. Work carefully on this because there's a very good chance all or most of these questions will be on next week's quiz.
1. Draw a picture and label the layers of the Earth and the layers of the atmosphere.
2. What three reasons is our atmosphere is so important?
3. What are the two major gasses in our atmosphere?
4. Use the words, hot, air, rise, dense to describe why hot air balloons rise.
5. Draw and label the water cycle.
6. What causes the Coriolis Effect?
7. Use the words (or variations of the words), pressure, low, rise, condense, water vapor to describe the process that makes clouds form.
8. If you take a look at your barometer and see that the "needle" is pointing up, how has the pressure changed? How will the weather change?
9. Describe what creates lightning.
10. What should you do if you are caught outside in a lightning storm?
11. What is the relationship between thunder and lightning.
12. Draw a picture of the Earth illustrating and labeling the…
a. Equator
b. Poles
c. convection cells (be careful here)
d. Path of the winds (be careful here too)
e. Spin direction of the Earth
f. Doldrums
g. westerlies
h. trade winds
13. What winds effect our weather here in the U.S.A.?
14. What direction does the weather tend to move across the U.S.A.?
15. Draw and label a convection current.
16. If there are cirrus clouds in the sky, what does that say about the weather?
17. If there are cumulus clouds in the sky, what does that say about the weather?
18. What are the 3 types of clouds in the highest part of the sky?
19. What are the 2 types of clouds in the middle part of the sky?
20. What are the 3 types of clouds that can be seen low in the sky?
21. What do you call a cloud on the ground?
This week in class we finished off our weather unit by doing a quick review of what we've learned in the past several weeks. To reinforce what we've been learning in a fun way we did a game show where the students came up with the questions by going through all their notes for the year. The teams were all quite close!
For homework this week do the following questions. These all come from quizzes, homework and notes so be sure to look over your materials for the answers. Work carefully on this because there's a very good chance all or most of these questions will be on next week's quiz.
1. Draw a picture and label the layers of the Earth and the layers of the atmosphere.
2. What three reasons is our atmosphere is so important?
3. What are the two major gasses in our atmosphere?
4. Use the words, hot, air, rise, dense to describe why hot air balloons rise.
5. Draw and label the water cycle.
6. What causes the Coriolis Effect?
7. Use the words (or variations of the words), pressure, low, rise, condense, water vapor to describe the process that makes clouds form.
8. If you take a look at your barometer and see that the "needle" is pointing up, how has the pressure changed? How will the weather change?
9. Describe what creates lightning.
10. What should you do if you are caught outside in a lightning storm?
11. What is the relationship between thunder and lightning.
12. Draw a picture of the Earth illustrating and labeling the…
a. Equator
b. Poles
c. convection cells (be careful here)
d. Path of the winds (be careful here too)
e. Spin direction of the Earth
f. Doldrums
g. westerlies
h. trade winds
13. What winds effect our weather here in the U.S.A.?
14. What direction does the weather tend to move across the U.S.A.?
15. Draw and label a convection current.
16. If there are cirrus clouds in the sky, what does that say about the weather?
17. If there are cumulus clouds in the sky, what does that say about the weather?
18. What are the 3 types of clouds in the highest part of the sky?
19. What are the 2 types of clouds in the middle part of the sky?
20. What are the 3 types of clouds that can be seen low in the sky?
21. What do you call a cloud on the ground?
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