Thursday, February 13. 2025

Today's schedule is DCBA

B Block Criminology - Today I'll have you continue your work on the three questions about crime trends I posted on yesterday:

1. Using pages 37 to 46 in the CRIM textbook outline and explain the crime patterns in relation to ecology, firearms, social class, age, gender and race. You could also use the link Who Commits Crime? to help and although it's about Saskatchewan check out Influences on Criminal Behaviour - Theory and Evidence
2. What is a chronic offender and what is the significance of Marvin Wolfgang's discovery (why is identifying the chronic offender/Long Term Offender important)? More than 115 criminal convictions in B.C.: One chronic offender's story
3. How would you explain the gender differences in the crime rate (why do you think males are more violent than females)? Feel free to use the links Gender and Crime in Sociology, Women and the Criminal Justice System, Are men more violent than women?, Gender and Crime

A Block Physical Geography - Oh my Goodness I am so excited...why? Today, today family, we start our look at the Earth being built up through tectonics. Okay...Lets get this out of the way right now....No,  the horribly bad 2003 movie "The Core" is not possible! No, not just bad but impossibly so.

We do not have the technology to burrow our way to the core of the earth and detonate a nuclear device in order to start the liquid outer core rotating. Sigh...so horrible 😩😆 

Today we start with tectonics and the internal structure/composition of the earth. We'll take some notes down in the Tectonics workbook package on core, mantle, and crust and then, you may use the Earth Interior web page or the Dynamic Earth webpage or the Layers of the Earth section of the Physical Geography and Natural Disasters textbook, or the Lumen Understanding Earth’s Interior page or the National Geographic Earth Interior page or the Live Science Earth Interior page to help with the questions from your tectonics workbook:

• Describe the asthenosphere. Why is it also known as the plastic layer? What are the consequences of its convection currents? (p. 217)
• What is a discontinuity? Describe the principal discontinuities within the Earth. (p.217)

You could use this diagram for your notes in the workbook

Aaaaaaaannnnnnnnd...Check out the sweet drone footage of the AA "clinker" lava from the Cumbre Vieja volcano erupted on La Palma, Canary Islands. 

 

Or the more fluid lava from the Eldvörp–Svartsengi volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland

This is some pretty cool footage from February 8th

Iceland's famous Blue Lagoon evacuated as volcano erupts for 3rd time

Is Iceland entering a new volcanic era?

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