Category Archives: Dynamic Earth

Welcome to Quarantine Class!

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Google Classroom has been set up for all sections that Mr. Boch teaches. An invitation to join your respective class has been sent to your school email. Below are the class codes in case that did not work.
EPS 1st period – utl55vb
EPS 2nd period – s2v5ptl
Dynamic Earth (all sections) – 6cchwk3

Note!
– You are required to complete all assigned work by the Friday of the first week we return. But it can be turned in through Google classroom whenever you finish. I’d get it done and not have a pile of work when you return if I were you.

– I will post assignments for each week by Monday afternoon and check both the classroom and my school email at least twice daily during the weekdays.

– EPS– Please make sure to send me your Google Slide presentation of you quarter projects so I can complete grades for this quarter.

Best of luck! Remember: social distance and wash your hands!

The World Could Shift To Green Energy for Less Than it Subsidies Fossil Fuels

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This is a game changer. A new report from the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) estimates the cost of subsidizing a full transition to clean energy, and comes out with a figure that is only 10-30% of the subsidy presently given to the planet-destroying fossil fuel industries.

That’s right. It would be cheaper to go green.

Just 10% of fossil fuel subsidy cash ‘could pay for green transition’

The report can be found here.

Why are we not doing this? Hmmm.

Dynamic Earth Study Gude

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For tomorrow’s quiz (don’t forget notes for chapter 17)

Know…
composition of air
air pressure and altitude
carbon cycle
effects of vacuum
layers of the atmosphere
ionosphere
northern lights
ozone
albedo
convection
greenhouse effect

see you then

Dynamic Earth Mid-Term

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Hmmm, I was not expecting another snow day. We will cancel the quiz on groundwater and caves.

Review Chapters 1,2,3,4,9,8,10,11,5, and 6

Mid-term has changed and will now be only 115 multiple choice questions. I am dropping the essays due to time constraints. Still open note.

Thanks and good luck

Blizzard Bag Assignment

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Here it is, any future such assignments will be posted here.

Blizzard Bag Lesson for Dynamic Earth

Go to the following Web sites from USA Today. Look at the graphic of Seasons and of Doppler Radar and complete the questions that follow. Turn the assignment in when we return to school.

http://usatodayeducation.com/k12/weather-graph3

http://usatodayeducation.com/k12/weather-graph6

Blizzard Bag Lesson for Earth / Physical Science

Instructor Chris Boch

Go to The Physical Science section of howstuffworks.com

http://science.howstuffworks.com/physical-science-channel.htm

Pick one of the articles, read it and write a one-page review, telling me about the article, what you learned and how you felt about it (was it well written, was it boring, etc.) Turn the assignment in when we return to school.

A Remarkable Coincidence

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So Wednesday in Dynamic Earth I showed you two TED talks on oceans. The first is a very upbeat and hopeful view from Dr. Robert Ballard, the famed ocean explorer. He is a link to the talk if your interested.

Robert Ballard: The astonishing hidden world of the deep ocean

The second video is more worrisome. Coral Ecologist Dr. Jeremy Jackson has seen massive ocean ecological destruction by the hand of man during his career and tells of a dark future, with a damaged ocean.

Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean

So I get home Wednesday night and who do I see on PBS? Jeremy Jackson. The new PBS show is called Earth: A New Wild. And looks at how humans are trying to effect a positive change on the environment by managing wilderness. Dr. Jackson and many, many others, are trying to regrow coral reefs, farm fish in the ocean instead of on land, introduce species that filter toxins from the water, and other amazing ideas.

Good show and you can watch it online. The episode I saw was “Oceans”

Earth: A New Wild