Thursday, March 17, 2011

Thursday, March 17. 2011

Today's schedule is A-B-C-D

A & D - Criminology 12 - Today we'll watch Chapters 1-8 in the movie "The Corporation" and for our last blog entry on the Monday following Spring Break, you will need to work on the "Can Corporations Commit Murder" questions 1 & 2 from page 285 as well as question 1 from page 291 in your Criminology the Core textbook. Please do not forget that the documentary is an opinion piece...it is trying to pursuade you that a corporation acts like a psychopath. Not all business is bad but we do need to understand the "corporate view" of white collar criminal activity.

Watch the documentary on You Tube here!

B - Earth & Space Science 11 - Today you have the block to continue your work on the "Mapping Mountains, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes" activity that you started yesterday in class. If you work hard then we'll watch the next section of the Amazing Planet DVD that we started earlier on this week. The mapping activity is due today at the end of class.

C- Geography 12 - Today we continue our look at chemical weathering by focusing our attention on karst topography and caves. We'll look on Google Earth at Guangxi province in China, Ha Long Bay in Vietnam, and Arecibo in Puerto Rico. If you go to the Geoscape Nanaimo webpage you can find some really good graphic and information about Karst on Vancouver Island (on the left hand panel click on "Our Rock Foundations" and you'll find the subsection on caves and karst). For homework you'll need to define: stalactite, stalagmite, flowstone, sinkhole/doline, and karst valley. You'll need to answer question 17, 20, 21, and 23 from page 443 in your Geosystems text and explain how tower karst (pagodas) forms and identify where it can be found.

For cool pictures of solution cave formations check out The Virtual Cave. Also if you wish to see these features "live" you could travel 40 kilometres south and go to the Horn Lake Caves.

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