A Block Legal Studies - We are back in the Learning Commons / Library to work on our criminal law memo activity. It is due next week, right? You should be on your second case now. Some questions to ask of your work...
- Are all the legally relevant facts included, no matter how inconvenient?
- Have you raised all the legal issues, even if they complicate your analysis?
- Does your analysis and prediction discuss all sides?
- Have you covered all the counterarguments?
- Are you straightforward in describing the risks?
- Have you explained what is debatable given the particular facts?
- Have you considered all reasonable interpretations of the cases, statutes, and client facts, and explained arguments and counterarguments?
Please look at the blog posts for weblinks and assistance on the memo format along with resources for your discussion section. Although you are not at Law School in University, I do expect that you'll demonstrate some high level legal thinking with this activity, right?
B Block Human Geography - Today and tomorrow we'll look at the key question "Where Are Religions Distributed"? To that end, today I'll have you divided up into six groups (groups of four/five) and each group will be responsible for discovering as much as they can about one of: Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam or Christianity. You'll need to find out:- how many followers there are,
- where the followers are distributed,
- beliefs and teachings (including books and or scriptures),
- Founders / Symbols / Holy days,
- branches (or subdivisions), and
- Holy locations and Places of Worship.
C/D Blocks Social and Environmental Sciences - With Young we'll look at the ocean and it's structure. When we begin our look at the oceans, we'll look at wind driven ocean circulation, geostrophic flow, and gyres. This connects us to the tragedy of the commons and the great pacific garbage patch which we'll look at Thursday, Friday and next Monday. So today...we will assemble a large scale map of the world to examine oceans and currents. Wind, tides, and differences in temperature and salinity drive ocean currents. The ocean churns up different types of currents, such as eddies, whirlpools, or deep ocean currents. Larger, sustained currents—the Gulf Stream, for example—go by proper names. Taken together, these larger and more permanent currents make up the systems of currents known as gyres. A gyre is another name for a swirling vortex. Ocean gyres are large swirling bodies of water that are often on the scale of a whole ocean basin or 1000’s of kilometers across (hundreds to thousands of miles across). Ocean gyres dominate the open ocean and represent the long-term average pattern of ocean surface currents.
Volumes of the World's Oceans from ETOPO1
All You Need To Know About the World’s 5 Oceans
And , because it's Young, I had to throw this in here...
Try these Oceans quizzes to check your comprehension/knowledge/understanding:
With Benton, you're looking at Ocean Primary Productivity which will be a lens through which to analyze ocean life variations and compare energy and ecological systems - connected to the depth ranges and habitats of primary producers in the ocean. You'll look at Ocean structure with Young later this week or next but ocean structure and stability influences Biogeochemical Cycles. In the tropics the surface water is warm and low density, and there is a pronounced thermocline separating it from the colder, denser deep water. This stratification prevents nutrient-rich water from reaching the surface and as a result tropical regions often have low productivity. In the high latitudes the water is uniformly cold at all depths, so there is little density stratification. This allows cold, nutrient-rich deep water to more easily mix with the surface water, leading to higher primary production in polar regions.
While many people may be more familiar with the larger seagrasses and macroalgae (seaweeds), by far the greatest amount of photosynthesis in the ocean comes from microscopic algae, the phytoplankton. The term “plankton” refers to organisms that drift with the currents, and the phytoplankton are the free-floating algae that undergo photosynthesis. Overall, marine productivity is similar to terrestrial production. Marine net production is about 35-50 billion metric tons per year, while terrestrial production reaches 50-70 billion tons per year. However, the biomass responsible for that production in the ocean is about 1-2 billion metric tons, compared to 600-1000 billion metric tons of biomass in terrestrial systems. So the oceans are producing almost as much organic material as terrestrial producers, but are doing it from only a fraction of the amount of producer biomass.
Chlorophyll A (predominant plant pigment) - absorbs blue 430nm and red at 662nm, saltwater absorption to blue wavelengths.
>15m Chlorophyta >30m Phaeophyta, >200m Rhodophyta, science and the sea
Arctic – low angle, algae growth > 45m
Then we'll be in the Super Lab doing an examination of multi-cellular algae (seaweed) by looking at samples in salt water, drawing key features and identifying types. The extension will be to the depth ranges and habitats of primary producers in the ocean. Seaweeds play a major role in marine ecosystems. As the first organism in marine food chains, they provide nutrients and energy for animals – either directly when fronds are eaten, or indirectly when decomposing parts break down into fine particles and are taken up by filter-feeding animals. Beds of seaweed provide shelter and habitat for scores of coastal animals for all or part of their lives. They are important nurseries for many commercial species.In the tropics the surface water is warm and low density, and there is a pronounced thermocline separating it from the colder, denser deep water. This stratification prevents nutrient-rich water from reaching the surface and as a result tropical regions often have low productivity. In the high latitudes the water is uniformly cold at all depths, so there is little density stratification. This allows cold, nutrient-rich deep water to more easily mix with the surface water, leading to higher primary production in polar regions. Algae can clearly perform well in cold environments. In the Southern Ocean, surrounding Antarctic, are phytoplankton and sea‐ice algae, as well as very large subtidal macroalgae, especially those of the brown algal order Desmarestiales, with kelp (Laminariales)‐like organisms such as Himantothallus grandifolius with blades up to 10 m long and 1 m wide
The California current is the eastern boundary current of the North Pacific Gyre, running southward from British Columbia, Canada to Baja California, Mexico. This current draws cool, nutrient rich waters from the Alaska current down along the western coast of North America. What does this help create (connected to today's activity)?
Today's Fit...
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