OUTLINE #3
for final exam
GLOBAL CLIMATES
THE CLIMATE SYSTEM
Interpreting Data on a Climograph
EVAPOTRANSPIRATION
Significance of Evapotranspiration
Evapotranspiration Maps for Australia
CLIMATE CLASSIFICATION
CLIMATE DISTRIBUTION
Watch this Video!!
"The Earth Revealed: Wind, Dust, and
Deserts"
An educational video by the Annenberg Project
and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Climate Regions of the World with Climatographs
Note: The
Climographs in the above listed website are displayed in units of
millimeters of precipitation
and celsius temperature. The following is a conversion of that scale
to
inches of precipitation and fahrenheit temperature:
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The following table is a list of conversions from mm to inches of precipitation and from Celsius to Fahrenheit. Precipitation Conversion Temperature Conversion mm = inches C = F 1000 39.37 40 104 900 35.43 30 86 800 31.50 20 68 700 27.56 10 50 600 23.62 0 32 500 19.69 -10 14 400 15.75 -20 -04 300 11.81 -30 -22
200
7.87
-40 -40
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THE BIOSPHERE
ENERGY TRANSFORMATIONS
CLIMATE-VEGETATION INTERACTIONS
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TUNDRA |
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BOREAL FOREST or TAIGA |
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TEMPERATE BROADLEAF DECIDUOUS FOREST |
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TROPICAL BROADLEAF EVERGREEN FOREST |
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TROPICAL SAVANNA |
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DESERTSCRUB |
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TEMPERATE GRASSLANDS |
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MEDITERRANEAN SCRUB |
| Table from Susan L. Woodward of
Radford University Department of Geography |
Boreal Forest in North America
Terrestrial Ecosystems of the
World
An Extensive List by
National Geographic
Jumping Cholla stuck to Geog 150 student's foot
Why Are We Losing
Our Biodiversity?
EARTH MATERIALS
EROSION
Physical vs. Chemical Weathering
THE INTERNAL EARTH
Watch this Video!!
"The Earth Revealed: Earth's Interior"
An educational video by the Annenberg Project
and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
From The Physical Environment
Exogenic vs Endogenic Processes
ISOSTACY
COMPOSITION OF THE EARTH'S CRUST
General Introduction to the Lithosphere
Illustration from:
www.rocksandminerals.com
Illustration from:
Wheeling Jesuit University/NASA Classroom of the Future
Rocks have been categorized into three major categories:
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PLATE TECTONICS
THEORY DEVELOPMENT
The Rocky
History of Plate Tectonics
Alfred Wegener
1880-1930
Continental
Drift, Seafloor Spreading, and Plate Boundaries
PLATE BOUNDARY ACTIVITY
Major Plate Boundaries
Interactive Plate Boundary Illustration
From
Moorland School (UK)
Tectonic Margin Processes and Landforms
Volcanic Processes and Landforms
TECTONIC PROCESSES AND OROGENESIS
Crustal Deformation Processes: Folding and Faulting
FOLDING
Anticline
Syncline
The above illustrations of folding are from
The Physical Environment
Photo of Syncline Fold
From The Physical Environment
FAULTING
Normal Fault
Occurs when tensional forces act in opposite directions causing
one side of the fault to be displaced upward and the other side
to be displaced downward
Reverse Fault
Occurs when compressional forces exist causing one side
of the fault to be displaced upward and over the other side
Strike Slip Fault
Also known as a Transform Fault, these faults occur where
stress forces are parallel to each other and moving in opposite
directions. The San Andreas Fault is one example.
The above illustrations of faulting are from
The Physical Environment
Photo gallery of
folding and faulting
Photo From: North Carolina Central University
From: Dr.
Steven Boss, Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville
VOLCANISM
What is it?
Volcano World
Mt. Pinatubo, Philippines 1994
Photo by Marko Riikonen From: University of N.
Dakota
The Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program
Volcanic Processes and Landforms
Lava Flow
Photo by Jeffrey F. Brown
From:
The Physical Environment
Eldfell Volcanic
Eruption
Heimaey, Iceland
Mount St. Helens Eruption
From: Forces of Nature
What happens during a volcanic eruption?
San Francisco
Earthquake and Fire
of 1906
By the Berkeley Bancroft
Library
GRADATIONAL PROCESSES
GRADATION
Gradation, both degradation and aggradation, occur as a result of
gradational processes (erosion, transportation, and deposition) that
operate on the landscape through gradational agents (running water,
glaciers,
ocean waves, and wind) to achieve maximum entropy
GRADATIONAL PROCESSES
Erosion, Transportation, and Deposition
GRADATIONAL AGENTS
Aeolian Processes and Landforms
Watch this Video!!
"The Earth Revealed: Wind, Dust, and
Deserts"
An educational video by the Annenberg Project
and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
How Do Glaciers Affect the Land?
Coastal
Processes and Landforms
Watch this Video!!
"The Earth Revealed: Waves, Beaches, and
Coasts"
An educational video by the Annenberg Project
and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Introduction to Streamflow and Fluvial Processes
The Ten
Worst Floods in History
From:
Forces of Nature
| Date | Location | Dead |
| 1887, September-October | Hwang Ho (Yellow) River, China | Over 900,000 |
| 1939 | North China | 500,000 |
| 1642 | Kaifeng, Honan Province, China | Over 300,000 |
| 1099 | England and the Netherlands | 100,000 |
| 1287, December 14 | The Netherlands | 50,000 |
| 1824 | Russia | 10,000 |
| 1421, November 18 | The Netherlands | 10,000 |
| 1964, November-December | Mekong Delta, South Vietnam | 5,000 |
| 1951, August 6-7 | Manchuria | 4,800 |
| 1948, June | Foochow, China | 3,500 |
The Plain Truth About Floodplains
U.S. Geological Survey
Surface Water Information
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Yosemite National Park
Flooding
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Photo by The Grand Forks Herald
What's up with
THE WEATHER?
Could all of Florida
be under water in the
near future?