Tuesday, November 26. 2019

Today's schedule is CDAB

C & D Blocks Environmental and Social Sciences - Double block in the Learning Commons/Library with both Young and Benton today. Since we took most of yesterday to take part in the Dr. Gwynne Dyer speech on "Populism: It’s the Automation, Stupid" you'll have the learning commons to work on your Salish Sea poster, your ocean plastics social media campaign or your letter about the twinning of the Trans Mountain pipeline to your MP. We're here to help and look at yesterday's blog post for deets on what can help you.

A Block Physical Geography - Today we'll begin our look at stratospheric ozone and air pollution. Ozone is a gas that occurs both in the Earth's upper atmosphere and at ground level. Ozone can be "good" or "bad" for your health and the environment, depending on its location in the atmosphere. After looking at the ways that ozone protects us and understanding how it can be destroyed by CFCs you'll need to complete questions 8 and 9 from page 90 in your Geosystems textbook. We'll also look at air pollution, specifically the anthropogenic additions to our atmosphere. We will look at the effects of nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxides on human health and terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. We'll also look at the Environment Canada Air Quality Index


For more information on Air Quality look at:
BC Air Quality Readings
Real Time Air Quality Index Map
The Habitable Planet: Air Pollution
Environment Canada Air Pollution site
For more information on Ozone look at:
Environment Canada Ozone site
US Environmental Protection Agency Stratospheric Ozone page
Ozzy Ozone UNEP Kids Ozone Site
NOAA Ozone depletion page
EPA Health Effects of Increased UV Radiation

National Public Radio site on the London "Killer Fog" of 1952
EPA website on acid rain

From Vox: Why India’s air pollution is so horrendous
Check out last year's article on CNN indicating that breathing in Delhi air is equivalent to smoking 44 cigarettes a day



Don't forget that every day we are going to start by looking at the synoptic forecast along with weather maps.
Data Streme
Envrionment Canada: Weather Office Comox

B Block Human Geography - Today we'll examine the key issue: Why Do Ethnicities Have Distinct Distribution? We'll start with a quick review of the triangular slave trade and the concentrated population of African Americans in the American southeast (you know...due to slavery). Then we'll look at the inter-regional migration from the rural U.S. South to northern and western urban areas in the mid to late 20th Century. Connected to this will be "Jim Crow" laws, "white flight", and civil rights. Lastly we'll look at Apartheid in South Africa and you'll have some questions to work on for me.