A Block Physical Geography - Today we're looking at glaciers and we'll make sense of how they erode the landscape and examine the land forms they create. We'll understand the differences amongst the various alpine and continental glaciers and we'll define: cirque, arete, pyramidical peak, hanging valley, truncated spur, esker, drumlin, kettle lake, and fjord; along with questions 3, 8, and 12 from page 587 in your Geosystems text.
For glacier websites check out:
Geoscape Nanaimo ice age legacy
USGS Glaciers of Canada book
National Snow & Ice Data Center All About Glaciers
Tongass National Forest Icefields & Glacier facts
USGS Glacier terminology
Eastern Illinois University Department of Geography glacier notes
Encyclopedia of the Earth: Glaciers
Rocky Mountain National Park glacier basics
Gradation Unit Test Review:
Weathering & MW
Names of MW (Big 3 – flows slides and falls – speed and consistency)
Chemical & Physical Weathering (Frost Action, Oxidation & Solution – Carbonation)
Karst (Carbonation created it – found in limestone) – features (stalagmite, stalactite & flowstone)
Slopes – causes of slope failure
H2O & Streams
Water Cycle terminology (condensation, evaporation, precipitation, transpiration, percolation, infiltration, aquifer, zones of aeration and saturation)
Where is most of fresh water
Transportation of sediment in water (bed load & suspended load)
Drainage Basins (Dendritic and Deranged)
Young – mature – old profile (what’s going on in terms of erosion & deposition) and features of young & old
Deltas (4 types)
Floods * (causes, damages, impact) *hint hint
Cross section of a river (meandering profile page 10 of week 8)
Coasts, Glaciers & Deserts
Longshore Drift (swash & backwash) – depositional coastlines (spit/barrier bar)
Erosional coastline (Cave-Arch-Stack)
Continental vs Alpine erosion (scouring & plucking) – features cirque, horn (pyrimidical peak) & hanging valley, U Shaped valley & truncated spur, drumlin & fjord
Deposition – moraines
Deserts – erosion (Aeolian) & transportation & desertification (increasing sizes of deserts – causes)
Playa – alluvial fans
A hallmark feature of human intelligence is its adaptability, the ability to invent and rearrange conceptions of the world to suit changing goals and environments. One consequence of this flexibility is the great diversity of languages that have emerged around the globe. Each provides its own cognitive toolkit and encapsulates the knowledge and worldview developed over thousands of years within a culture. Each contains a way of perceiving, categorizing and making meaning in the world, an invaluable guidebook developed and honed by our ancestors. Research into how the languages we speak shape the way we think is helping scientists to unravel how we create knowledge and construct reality and how we got to be as smart and sophisticated as we are. And this insight, in turn, helps us understand the very essence of what makes us human.UNESCO has six factors that identify the vitality and endangeredness of a language. They are:
1) Intergenerational Language Transmission;
2) Absolute Number of Speakers;
3) Proportion of Speakers within the Total Population;
4) Trends in Existing Language Domains;
5) Response to New Domains and Media; and
6) Materials for Language Education and Literacy.
Start on page 9 (of 27) on the pdf document
For the next three days we are in the library working on a language project. Your job will be to create an information graphic poster on an endangered language. For your endangered language you’ll need to:
- Show where the endangered language originated and diffused to (yes on a map).
- Show the connection to the family, branch, and group of the endangered language. (Use your best judgment on this).
- Show where the language is spoken today, indicate how many people speak it.
- Show Unique features of this endangered language (What makes it different to and similar than others?)
- Show examples of how the language is written and or spoken
- Show why your endangered language is important to save
- Show how your endangered language is both being threatened (contributing factors) and being saved
- Show how people can find more info (links...sources cited)
An Infoposter is a graphic that conveys multiple segments of information typically using words and numbers to represent data. Infoposters generally use iconic-type graphic elements for visual design appeal and are typically vertical in orientation, like a wall poster. They are meant to be read, usually from top to bottom. They are created to collect a variety of data about a topic in one place and to communicate it in an interesting and easy-to-read format.
So, you’ll need to choose an endangered language:
http://languagesindanger.eu/
https://www.ethnologue.com/
http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/
http://www.fpcc.ca/language/ELP/
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/apr/15/language-extinct-endangered
http://www.unesco.org/languages-atlas/index.php
http://www.eldp.net/
https://festival.si.edu/2013/One-World-Many-Voices/smithsonian
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/enduring-voices/#
You will need to chose an information graphic site to use:
Personal Theory of Crime
Trends in Crime (Drugs in BC)
Short and Long term Impacts on Crime Victims
Is school a violent place for teens
Serial and Mass Murder
Auto Theft
Good Burglars
D Block Law - Today we are in the library to begin work on a Canadian Criminal Defense project. Find two recent (in the last two years) criminal cases where a defense discussed in the class was used/attempted. The defenses are: Alibi, Non-Insane Automatism, Intoxication, Insane Automatism, Battered Woman Syndrome, Self-defense, Necessity, Duress, Ignorance of the law, Mistake of fact, Entrapment, Double jeopardy, and Provocation.
Summarize the cases by answering the following questions:
1. What are the facts of the case?
2. What are the criminal charges?
3. What defense was raised, and what arguments were presented to support the defense?
4. If there was a decision in the case, identify whether or not the defense was successful. If there is no decision yet, provide an opinion on whether you think the defense will be accepted by the courts or not.
5. Provide a personal opinion on the case
Make sure you include:
Name of Case: Give the complete case name indicating all parties. Ensure the appropriate format is used, depending on whether the case is civil or criminal.
Name of Court: Refer to the name and particular level of court where the case was heard.
Citation: This is the legal case reference from the law-reporting series or online case-reporting site. Use this complete and accurate citation when first referring to the case.
Summary of Key Facts: Summarize the key facts and events of the case in one to two paragraphs. Make sure all the information you include is legally relevant. This is point 1 above.
Applicable Laws: Refer to the legislation that was at issue (for example, section 235 of the Criminal Code or Section 11d of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms). This is point 2 above.
Issue: Identify the issues to be decided by the court in a clear and concise manner, and express these issues in question format. For example - Was the search unreasonable and therefore a violation of section 8 of the Charter? Did provocation occur, and, if so, should the charge be reduced from murder to manslaughter? This is point 1 and point 3 above.
Case Decision or Judgment: Identify the decision of the court (e.g., the appeal was allowed, a new trial was ordered, the accused was found guilty of the crime, etc.). This is point 4 above.
Reason for the Case Decision or Judgment: State the rationale for the judgment by clearly summarizing the factors considered by the judge in his or her decision. This is point 4 above.
Places to find cases - CanLII is a non-profit organization managed by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. CanLII's goal is to make Canadian law accessible for free on the Internet. Click through the databases on the side (provinces and territories) and search by year (2012-2011-2010)...anytime you see Supreme/Superior court or court of Queen's Bench you'll find serious criminal cases (remember look for R. v. in the case citation). Canoe is is a leading Canadian internet portal offering news, sports and entertainment from Sun Media. Crime news stories can be found in the Crime portion of the News section.
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