Wednesday, October 30. 2019

Today's schedule is BADC

B Block Human Geography - Today we look at the Key Question: Where Are Languages Distributed? Ethnologue estimates that the world has an estimated 7,102 languages...11 of which are spoken by at least 100 million people each (including English with the others being German, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, Japanese, Lahnda, and Mandarin).

In Canada more than 200 languages were reported in the 2011 Canadian Census of Population as a home language or mother tongue. Quite obviously English and French are the most widely spoken languages however Cantonese, Mandarin, Hindi-Punjabi, Arabic, Spanish are also widely spoken. According to the 2011 Census, almost 213,500 people reported an Aboriginal mother tongue and nearly 213,400 people reported speaking an Aboriginal language most often or regularly at home (Language families include Algonquian, Inuit, Athapaskan, Salish, Tsimshian, Wakashan, Kutenai, Haida and Michif). You'll need to look at language families from pages 146-149 of the Cultural Landscape book in order to fill in a chart for me.

2019 Joffre Peak landslide

A Block Physical Geography - Today we'll look at Mass Wasting (falls, slides, and flows). We will Sea to Sky highway (Hwy 99 from West Vancouver to Squamish), The Trans-Canada through the Rockies (Highway 1) and we'll review the Oso Washington slide from March 2014 as well as the 2019 Joffre Peak landslides. You will define rock fall, debris avalanche, landslide, mud flow, and soil creep and work on questions 27 & 32 from page 443 in your Geosystems text.
figure out the causes of Mass Wasting by looking at both the driving and resisting forces on hillsides and slopes. We will try to figure out some slope stabilization practices and specifically we'll look at what has been done at Goose Spit to stop erosion of the Willemar Bluffs along Balmoral Beach. We'll also review the problems of the

SWEET Landslide video from National Geographic



SWEET Japanese Landslide video

United States Geological Survey Landslides Hazard
Federal Emergency Management Association Landslide and Debris Flow
National Park Service Mass Wasting
Landslides in BC
University of Kentucky Earth Science Department Mass Wasting animation
OUC Foundations of Physical Geography Mass Wasting


D & C Blocks Environmental and Social Sciences - Today we are off to Comox Lake to work with the Courtenay and District Fish and Game Protective Association. We'll be on their site working on riparian zone remediation so be prepared to get your hands dirty in an attempt to help the site adhere to the setbacks regulated by government.