Pick Any Park!

Go to the California State Parks website and find any park to create a presentation or comic about that you have not already studied.

1. What park did you choose, and what is special about it?

2. Where is it and how do you get there from San Leandro (click the button that says Map of Location, click the red marker and find the directions)?  Put the directions and map in your document.

3-5. Find three photos of your park and explain what is shown in each photo.

6. Go to the Day Hikers Trail link on the left and describe a hiking trail in the park.  Describe the length of the trail, the name of the trail, and what you will see on the trail 

7. Go here and click the link that says "Proposed GF Reduction Closed Units" and find out if your park is scheduled to be closed.

8. Click on the Accessible Features link and see if there is camping at the park.  Explain what the campsite is called and something about the campsite.

Put your keynote or comic life file in the Pick Any Park folder on the server.

California Coastal Redwood Parks

Your job today is to learn about a California State Coastal Redwood Park and find out if it is set for closing. Put all your information and images in an Appleworks document.

Go to the California State Parks website and find the California Coastal Redwood Parks.  Pick a park to focus on and click the label for the park.

1. What park did you choose, and what is special about it?

2. Where is it and how do you get there from San Leandro (click the button that says Map of Location, click the red marker and find the directions)?  Put the directions and map in your document.

3-5. Find three photos of your park and explain what is shown in each photo.

6. Go to the Day Hikers Trail link on the left and describe a hiking trail in the park.  Describe the length of the trail, the name of the trail, and what you will see on the trail 

7. Go here and click the link that says "Proposed GF Reduction Closed Units" and find out if your park is scheduled to be closed.

8. Click on the Accessible Features link and see if there is camping at the park.  Explain what the campsite is called and something about the campsite.

Put your document  in the California State Coastal Redwood Park folder on the server.

State Natural Reserves

Your job today is to learn about a California State Natural Reserve and find out if it is set for closing. Create a presentation or comic with your information and photos.

Go to the California State Parks website and find the State Natural Reserves Page. Pick a reserves to focus on.

1. What reserve did you choose, and what is special about it?

2. Where is it and how do you get there from San Leandro (click the button that says Map of Location, click the red marker and find the directions)?  Put the directions and map in your document.

3-5. Find three photos of your park and explain what is shown in each photo.

6. Explain what natural features or animals the reserve protects or what you will find when you go there.

7. Go here and click the link that says "Proposed GF Reduction Closed Units" and find out if your park is scheduled to be closed.

Put your presentation or comic in the California State Reserves folder on the server.

California State Parks

Your job today is to learn about a California State Park and find out if it is set for closing.

Go to the California State Parks website and find the California State Parks page.   Pick a park to focus on that is close in the alphabet as your last name.

1. What park did you choose, and what is special about it?

2. Where is it and how do you get there from San Leandro (click the button that says Map of Location, click the red marker and find the directions)?  Put the directions and map in your document.

3-5. Find three photos of your park and explain what is shown in each photo.

6. Look at the Park Features Icons on the right side of the page and list everything the park has.

7. Go here and click the link that says "Proposed GF Reduction Closed Units" and find out if your park is scheduled to be closed.

Put your appleworks document, presentation, or comic in the California State Parks folder on the server.

California Historic Parks

The Governor just proposed the closing of over 220 State parks in California.  Your job is to learn about one of these parks and create a presentation about the park.

Go here to the California State Parks website,  go to the California Historic Sites page, and pick a park to focus on.

1. What park did you choose, and what is special about it?

2. Where is it and how do you get there from San Leandro (click the button that says Map of Location, click the red marker and find the directions)?  Put the directions and map in your document.

3-5. Find three photos of your park and explain what is shown in the photos.

6. Look at the Park Features Icons on the right side of the page and list everything the park has.

7. Go here and click the link that says "Proposed GF Reduction Closed Units" and find out if your park is scheduled to be closed.

Put your presentation in the California Historic Sites folder on the server.

Presentation or Comic

Create a presentation or comic for whatever park you did not do yesterday.

Lassen or Death Valley.

Put it in the Death Valley/Lassen Presentation folder along with your other one from yesterday.

Death Valley or Lassen Volcanic National Park Presentation

Use the questions and answers from the Death Valley or Lassen Volcanic National Park assignments to create a presentation or comic about one of the parks.  Include pictures for each slide.

Death Valley

Today you will study one of the lowest places on Earth, Death Valley.  Put your images and answers in an Appleworks document.

1. Start by finding the directions to Death Valley with Google Maps from San Leandro.  Take a screen shot (Apple-shift-4) of the route and directions and put it in your document.

2. Zoom in on Death Valley in Google Maps, Click the More button and turn on Photos, and click on a photo to make it bigger in the map.  (Apple-shift-4) to take a picture and put in your document.

3. Now go to the National Parks site and tell me what is special about Death Valley and what you will see there if you go.

4. Go to the Geology Page and tell me how far below sea level Badwater Basin is and how high Telescope Peak is.

5. Go to the Natural Features Page and Click on "Faults" on the left.  What does movement along faults allow in Death Valley?

6. Click on Weather and Climate and find out what Death Valley is famous as.

7. What are the extremes of temperature (highest and lowest) in Death Valley.

8. Go to the Sand Dunes page and list the three things needed for dunes to exist.

9. Go to the Salt Flats page and List the three things that cause salt flats.

10. Go to the Beautiful Places site, watch the Death Valley podcast.  Take a picture (Apple-shift-4) of the salt flats.  Put this picture in your document and explain why it is so dry in Death Valley.

Put your document in the Death Valley folder on the server.

Fumaroles and Mudpots

Today you will study Lassen Volcanic National Park.  Put everything in an Appleworks document.

1. Start by finding the directions to Lassen with Google Maps from San Leandro.  Take a screen shot (Apple-shift-4) of the route and directions and put it in your document.

2. Zoom in on Lassen in Google Maps, Click the More button and turn on Photos, and click on a photo to make it bigger in the map.  (Apple-shift-4) again and take a picture to put in your document.

3. Now go to the National Parks site and tell me if the main road through the park is open or closed.

4. When was the last eruption of Lassen Peak?

5. What are some of the "Hydrothermal Features" of Lassen National Park?

6. Click the "more..." link under "Explore the Hydrothermal Areas" on the main page and find out what water from rain and snow hits deep underground to produce hot water and steam.

7. Explain what a fumarole is and find a picture of one (use google).

8. Explain what a mud pot is and find a picture of one.

9. Watch the Lassen National Park: Bumpass Hell episode of Beautiful Places. What lies miles below Lassen NP?

10. The blue-green acidic waters of bumpass hell do what?

Mars Rover Images

Today you will create a presentation showing the images of the Mars Rovers.

You will get all your images here.

Slide 1: Title Slide

Slide 2-7: Pick a rover, Spirit or Opportunity and go to Press Release Images for that rover.  Find an image from each year the rover has been on mars.  Put it on your slide and explain what the image shows.  You can find what the image shows by reading the press release or the text around the image.

Slide 8: Find a color panorama taken by a rover and explain what is shown in it.

Slide 9: Find a Special-Effects Image and explain what it shows.

Slide 10: Find an image of one of the rovers.

Put the presentation in the Mars Rovers folder.

Mars Rovers

Today you will study the Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Answer all questions in an Appleworks document.

Go here to the NASA website for the Rover Mission

1. Go to the Overview page.  When did the rovers land on Mars?

2. Name the Science Instruments on the rovers.

3. Go to the Science page and list the four science  goals of the rovers.

4. Go to The Mission page and look at Where Are The Rovers Now.  How far has each rover traveled since landing?

5. Go to the Multimedia page, open the images tab on the bottom left of the page, and find an image taken by Spirit.  Drag the image into your document.

6. Find a panorama taken by Opportunity and drag it into your document.

Save the document with your name in the title and put it in the Mars Rover folder on the server.

Make Up Day!

Check all folders on the server and make sure you have turned in all assignments.

Do the assignment if you have to.

Robots

Go here to learn about robots

Answer the following questions as you read.  Put your questions and answers in the Robots folder on the server or on paper and turn it in.

1. What do robots do for us?

2. What is a robot?

3. What do robots build the most?

4. Name a combat game that pits robot against robot?

5. Name the robot soccer competition.

6. What's so special about AIBO?

7. What robots have explored Mars?

8. What robot explored the Titanic. and why didn't people explore it?

9. Watch the video about Asimo (on moving page) and explain why Asimo is special.

10. Watch the video of Hans Moravec and explain what action was more difficult to program then proving all of Euclid's geometry theorems.

11. Explain what a neural net can do.

12. What does Cog do that is so human-like? (watch the video)

13. What question can the Turing Test answer?

14. Name four movies that depict robots taking over.

Yosemite Valley Landmarks

Today you will create a presentation or comic about Yosemite Valley's Landmarks.

Here are the landmarks you need to find an image of and a short description of.

Yosemite Valley

Half Dome

Yosemite Falls

El Capitan

Mirror Lake

Bridalveil Falls

Merced River

Vernal Falls

Nevada Falls

Glacier Point

Mirror Lake Hike

Start by watching the Mirror Lake podcast here.

Go to the Yosemite site and do the first activity, which is a simulated hike to Mirror Lake.

For each question, write one sentence that has both the question and answer in it.  No copy and pasting.  Put your statements in an Appleworks document or on a sheet of paper.

Turn it in to the Mirror Lake folder on the server or turn the paper in to me.

Yosemite Field Journal

Do the Yosemite Field Journal on this page

Make every question and answer into a statement and put ten of the statements in a Comic Life comic or a presentation.  Remember to add images that have to do with the statement.

Turn the comic into the Yosemite Comic Here folder on the server.

SLAM SOPHS B Lesson

1. Go to server and get the ObiWan folder out of the Sent from Farley folder.  Be sure to download it to your computer.

2. Open After Effects and drag the three files into the project window.

3. Drag the files to the timeline and put obiwan on top, grievous in the middle, and interior on the bottom..

4. Use the pen tool to draw a mask around Obiwan.  Use only 6 points around Obiwan, don't try to get too close.  Draw the mask big enough so it surrounds Obiwan for the entire clip.

5. Save this as Obiw_001, export it as a prores422 quicktime,  and put it in the Obiw_001 here folder.

Yosemite

Today you will learn about Yosemite.  Go here and read the Overview.

Answer the following questions in an Appleworks document or on a sheet of paper.  Turn the Appleworks document into the server or turn the paper into the substitute teacher.

1. What kind of plate movement happened 200 million years ago to form the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range?

2. What happened 5 million years later?

3. What happened 65 million years ago?

4. What happened 60 million years ago?

5. What happened 2.5 million year ago?

6. What happened 1.2 million years ago?

7. What kind of rock is granite?

8. What is a field of underground rock called?

9. What minerals are in granite rock?

10. Fast flowing streams carved what in the landscape?

11. 1.2 million years ago, what cut the U-Shaped  valleys in Yosemite?

Muir Woods

Today we start the study of California Geology and Natural Resources.  We begin with Muir Woods, a National Monument very close to San Leandro.  Put your answers on an Appleworks document, a comic, a presentation, or a piece of paper.

Go here to the Muir Woods website.

Click on the Nature and Science link and answer the following questions:

1. Name two species of birds that live in Muir Woods.

2. Explain why there are not many types of birds living in Muir Woods.

3. Name the two types of fish found in Redwood Creek in Muir Woods.

4. Name two invertibrates found in Muir Woods.

Go here and watch the Muir Woods podcast. 

Answer the following questions:

5. Where is Muir Woods?

6. What types of plant and animal life can be found at Muir Woods?

7. What is the one special tree that grows at Muir Woods?

8. What is special about the Coastal Redwood?

9. What are the three limiting factors to how high a Coastal Redwood can grow?

Swine Flu

Today we are learning about Swine Flu and creating a comic or presentation so we can inform others about it.  The best comic and presentation will be posted on the school website.

Go here for your information

1. What is the total count of Human Cases of Swine Flu in the US?  How about California?

2. What does the word Flu stand for?

3. Why do they call it Swine Flu? (look in Key Facts)

4. List at least 4 things you can do to stay healthy

 Go to Swine Flu and You

5. List the symptoms of Swine Flu

6. How is Flu spread?

7. What should you do if you get sick?

8. What medicines are there to treat Swine Flu?

9. The current Swine Flu epidemic is being called a Pandemic.  What is a Pandemic? (just google it)

Make a 10 square comic or presentation.  The first square or slide should be a title square or slide.  The best comic and presentation will be posted on the slhs.net website as an information source for people.

Turn it in to the Swine Flu folder.

The Carbon Cycle

Go Here, Watch the Carbon Cycle Movie and answer the following questions:

1. Where is carbon found?

2. Carbon in the atmosphere is found in a gas called?

3. Carbon is stored in the ground as?

4. Carbon is dissolved in?

5. What uses carbon dioxide to grow?

6. Plants release carbon to the atmosphere through __________

7. When plants die, become part of the soil, and are compacted they are transformed into what?

8. How does carbon move between water and the atmosphere?

9. Sea Creatures and plants can ______________ carbon from the oceans.

10. How do humans influence the carbon cycle?

11. The addition of carbon to the atmosphere contributes to ____________________

Put 10 of the questions into a comic book and find images for each square that relate to the question.  Post the comic to your blog or put it in the Carbon Cycle folder on the server if it doesn't work

The Rock Cycle Presentation

Today you will make a presentation on the Rock Cycle using the following website:

The Rock Cycle

Slide 1: What are Rocks?

Slide 2: What are the 3 types of rock?

Slide 3: Where do Igneous rocks come from?

Slide 4: What minerals are in igneous rocks?

Slide 5: What are three types of extrusive igneous rocks?

Slide 6: What are three types of intrusive igneous rocks?

Slide 7: What are sedimentary rocks?

Slide 8: What are clastic sedimentary rocks

Slide 9: What are three types of clastic sedimentary rocks?

Slide 10: What are nonclastic sedimentary rocks?

Slide 11: What are two types of nonclastic sedimentary rocks?

Slide 12: What are metamorphic rocks?

Slide 13: What are foliated metamorphic rocks and name a few

Slide 14: What are nonfoliated metamorphic rocks and name a few.

Turn your presentation in to the server in the Rock Cycle Presentation folder.

Rock Cycle Comic

Create a ten square comic using yesterday's questions.  Make sure you find a picture that has to do with the question.  Example, if it's talking about limestone, find a picture of limestone!

Post the image on your blog or drop the comic in the Rocks folder on the 10.12.1.9 server.

Remember, to make the image for your blog, File > Export to Image and make sure its format is jpeg.

The Rock Cycle

Go here and watch the Rocks podcast.  Answer the following questions while watching:

1. Earth's crust began as ________________

2. In the beginning, all rocks were _______________

3. Volcanoes deliver igneous rocks to the ________________

4. Rock that forms underground is called ___________________

5. Rock that forms from from igneous rock fragments (sediments) are called _____________

6. Sand that is formed into rock is called _____________________

7. Layers of coal are formed from ________________________

8. Limestone is formed from _______________________

9. Rocks that have been changed since they first formed are called _____________________

10. Limestone under great pressure turns to _______________

11. When metamorphic rock reaches the surface, it weathers and becomes _______________

Post the questions to your blog or put them in the Rocks folder on the server.

Deepest Place Comic

Create a 6 square comic using six of the questions from the Deepest Place video questions.

Post the comic on your blog.

Atmosphere Comic

Create a 10 square comic book about the Earth's atmosphere using ten of yesterday's answers. Be sure to find an image that illustrates the subject of the answer.

When you are done, save your comic and then do the following:

1. File > Export > Export to Image

2. Name it and make sure it goes to your desktop

3. Set the Format to JPEG

4. Press the Export button

5. Now the comic is in a folder (that you named) and on the desktop.

6. Go to your blog and create a new post

7. Press the Add Image button and choose the file under "Add an image from your computer"

8. Press the button for View Image = LARGE

9. Press "Choose Layout" left.

California Earth Science Standard 8a. Students know the thermal structure and chemical composition of the atmosphere.

Today you will study the thermal structure and chemical composition of the Earth's atmosphere. Answer the questions in your blog.

Go here and answer the following questions:

1. What gasses make up the Earth's atmosphere and what are the percentages of each?

2. Most of the atmosphere is within how many miles of the surface?

3. What is the air pressure at sea level? At 10,000 ft?

4. How thick is the Troposphere and does the temperature go up as altitude increases or down?

5.How high is the Stratosphere off the surface and how high does it reach?

6. Does the temperature of the Stratosphere increase or decrease as altitude increases?

7. What formed the Earth's atmosphere?

8. What has modified the earth's atmosphere since its formation?

Go here and use the pie chart to answer the questions below:

9. What is the atmosphere mostly made of?

10. What is nitrogen important for?

11. What gas is is second most in our atmosphere?

12. What is it good for?

13. What gas is third most and what is it good for?

14. What gas is forth most and what is it good for?

15. What other non-gas things are in the atmosphere?

The Atmosphere

Today you will create a post about the Earth's atmosphere, its compositions, and some things that happen in the atmosphere. Please do not copy the questions, just answer them on your blog in a complete sentence.

1. Go Here and read the page.

2. The original atmosphere was similar to what planet's atmosphere?

3. Find a picture of the planet that you mentioned above, right-click or control-click on it and select copy image address. Then, press the Add Image button and paste the address you copied into the URL box .

Press the Compose link to hide the html junk and drag your image where it belongs. The images go to the top of the page for some reason.

4. What happens in the Troposphere? Answer the question and add an image that represents the answer.

5. What happens in the Stratosphere? Answer the question and add an image of Stratospheric Clouds.

6. What is the Ozone Layer primarily responsible for?

7. Go here, find an image that has something to do with the Ozone layer and explain what the picture shows.

8. What takes place in the Ionosphere? Find a picture that represents it and post it. Answer the question also.

Be sure to publish your post when you are done.

Customizing Blog and Writing first post

Go here and sign in to Blogger.

1. If you chose a template after you signed up, then you are done with this step. If you want to choose again, click the Layout tab and then click Pick New Template.

2. Go to the Settings tab and click the Comments link. Go down to Comment moderation and click Always.

3. Go down to the bottom of the page and click the SAVE SETTINGS button to save the changes.

4. Go to the Email tab under Settings and put tonyfarley@mac.com into the BlogSend Address. This will send me an email when you create a new post.

5. Go to the Basic tab under Settings and create a title like Tony's Science Blog, write a description that describes your blog. You are doing this blog as a part of your science class and you will be posting assignments to the blog.

6. Now go to the Posting tab, put "Earth's Atmosphere" into the title.

7. Now find a website that explains the different layers of the atmosphere and list them in your blog post.

8. Publish the post by pressing PUBLISH POST

Sign up for a Blog

1. Go here and click "Create a Blog" Put your information in and sign up for a blog. If you need an email account, sign up for one here.

2. Name your blog your first and last name all together like tonyfarley. If that is taken, put numbers after it.

3. For anything like the name of the blog or the URL, put in the same thing you entered in #2.

3. Once you are finished, finish or turn in your late assignments.

Mt. Redoubt Again

Mt. Redoubt has had four large explosions last night.

Go here to find out more.

Answer the following questions:

1. What is the "Redoubt Volcano Latest Observation"

2. Find the most recent image of Redoubt or take a picture of the webcam if it is light over there.

3. Read the Fox News Story and find out how high the ash cloud went and if Anchorage is going to be hit by the cloud.

4. Find a picture of the recent Tonga volcano eruption and write one sentence about what has been happening there.

Put these questions in an Appleworks document called Yourname MtRedoubt and put it in the Mt. Redoubt folder on the server.

Ice Sheet Collapse

In yesterday's movie, an ice sheet collapsed creating a tidal wave and changing weather patterns. Just yesterday, a scientific report stated that a large part of West Antarctica could melt if greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere increase only slightly from today's levels.

Here is the article. Read it and answer the following questions in an Appleworks document. Put your document into the Ice Sheet Collapse folder.


1. The first paragraph says two things would cause a large part of the ice covering West Antarctica to be lost. What are those two things?

2. If the West Antarctic ice sheet collapsed and the East Antarctic ice shtte continues to melt, what would happen?

3. How much of the worlds fresh water is stored in Antarctica?

4. What did the scientists do to figure this out?

5. The floating ice sheet will not do anything if it melts. Why?

6. The real threat comes when what ice melts?

7. The 50 core samples allowed scientists to study what?

8. How often and how many times has the Ross Embayment area collapsed in the past?

9. The drill samples also showed changes in the tilt of the Earth's axis played a role in what?

10. Around four million years ago rising carbon dioxide caused what?

11. Computer modeling shows that something could happen to the West Antarctic ice sheet. What could happen, and when?

12. What's the primary driver of ice sheet melting?

13. How much of a degree rise is enough to collapse the West Antarctic ice sheet?

PUT YOUR DOCUMENT INTO THE "ICE SHEET COLLAPSE" FOLDER.

Magnetic Field Reversal

Watch the video on this website all the way through, then use the pause/play button to listen to it and answer the following questions:

Create a ten slide presentation with the questions with images that illustrate each question.

1. The Earth's magnetic field acts as_______________, protecting our planet from _______________________________

2. In 1906, Bernard Brunhes examined newly formed ______________

3. Lava contains _____________________________________ the Earth.

4. Inside the ______________ lava, __________________________ are free to move.


5. As the lava cools and forms into _______, the iron particles align themselves with the ________________________, like a compass.

6. During his research, Brunhes found some of the rocks had ___________________________________ direction.

7. Brunhes realized that at some time in the past, the earth's magnetic field had _________________________.

8. The earth's magnetic field has reversed at least ___________________ in the last ___________________________years.

9. We may be going through ______________________ right now.

Turn the presentation into the Magnetic Field Reversal folder on the server

Sea Floor Spreading

Today you will study sea floor spreading. Put all these questions in an Appleworks document and answer them by going to the links.

1. Go here and watch the animation. Take four pictures (Apple-Shift-4), one at 180 Million years ago, one at 100 Million years ago, one at 40 million years ago, and one at zero years ago (now). Explain in a sentence how South America and Africa used to be and how they moved.

2. GO HERE, read the first three paragraphs and watch the sea floor spreading animation by pressing the play button.

3. Explain what happens to the magma (press the magma button to see an arrow).

4. Click on the word "divergent" and write down the definition of divergence.

5. Explain what happens to the two plates at a divergent boundary.

6. The Earth's magnetic field reverses, where north becomes south and south becomes north. GO HERE, read the page and play with the animation.

7. Explain what rocks on the seafloor, on either side of a mid-ocean spreading ridge do.

8. Using the animation, the red arrow on the compass is the north pole. What direction was North five million years ago? What direction was north three million years ago? What direction is north now (zero million years ago)?

Put your document in the Sea Floor Spreading folder.

LA Earthquake Comic Strip

Use ComicLife to create a 9 square comic on the LA Earthquake using the video questions from yesterday.

Turn the comic file into the Earthquake Comic folder on the server.

Earthquake Preparedness

Today you will create an eight slide presentation on Earthquake preparedness.

For each slide:
Find an image that illustrates the step you are discussing.

Add a title for the slide that explains the step. You can use the same titles used on the page.

List at least three things you should do to prepare for this step. Be sure to click on the links at the bottom of the step for more information.

Get your information from this website.

Save this as Your Name Earthquake Preparedness and drop it in the Earthquake preparedness folder.

Quake Damage Estimates

Start an Appleworks document and past these questions in it.

1. Go here and find San Leandro on the Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Map. What is the predicted "g" acceleration for SL?

2. Now go here and copy the "Annual Economic Loss Due To Building Damage by County" map to your document. What color is Los Angeles county and what color is Alameda county?

3. Go down the page and find out how much is estimated to be lost in building damage if the San Francisco Quake of 1906 repeats. (remember that the number listed is in Millions of dollars)

4. If a 6.7 quake happens on the Hayward fault (repeat of the 1868 quake) happens, what is the estimated damage?

5. Finally, go here and find the largest recent quake in the world (largest square) and find what magnitude it was and where it was. Click on maps and download the Google Earth KML. Take a picture of the place.

Save this as your name and quake damage and put it in the quake damage folder on the server.

Recent Earthquakes

Today we are studying Recent Earthquakes in our area and the world.

Start by copying all the questions to Appleworks.

1. Go Here and find an earthquake that happened in the last hour (will be a red square). What time did it hit, what was its magnitude, and where was it?

2. Download the Google Earth KML file for the event and take a picture of the place it hit (Apple-shift-4 and drag your mouse)


3. Go back here and find the largest earthquake (the one with the biggest square). What time did it hit, what was its magnitude, and where was it?

4. Look at the Waveforms for the earthquake and drag the waveforms into your Appleworks document.

5. Download the Google Earth KML file and take a picture of the location in Google Earth.

Measuring Earthquakes

Seismologists use a Magnitude scale to express the strength of an earthquake. Today you will study that scale. Put all questions and answers in an Appleworks document and turn it in to the Measuring Earthquakes folder on the server.

1) Go here and copy the Richter Magnitudes and its effect.

2. Go down to Seismic Energy. How much TNT energy is released in a 1.0 earthquake, a 4.0 earthquake, and an 8.0 earthquake?

3) To split the Earth in half through the center would be equal to what magnitude quake and how much TNT?

4.Go here and find out who the Richter Scale is named after and answer the following questions:
Who is the Richter Scale named after?
For each whole number you go up on the Richter scale, the amplitude of the ground motion goes up _____ times.

5. Using the above information, how much bigger is a 7.0 earthquake than a 6.0 earthquake?

6. How much bigger is an 8.0 earthquake than a 6.0 earthquake?

7. How much bigger is a 9.0 earthquake than a 6.0 earthquake?

For the following calculations, you will need the Calculator program on your computer. Find it in the Applications folder. Once you start it up go to View > Scientific to make it a scientific calculator.

8. Calculate how much stronger the San Francisco quake (7.8) of 1906 was compared to the Hayward quake of 1868 (6.8).

9. Calculate how much bigger the SF quake of 1906 (7.8) was compared to the Northridge quake (6.7).

10. Calculate how much bigger the Indonesian earthquake of 2004 (9.3) was compared to the San Francisco quake of 1906 (7.8).

11. Go here and watch the P-wave animation and the S-wave animation. How does the ground move for each wave?

Historical Earthquake Research

Today you will study historical earthquakes. For each earthquake, take a Google Earth Picture of the place where the quake was centered, write down it's magnitude, the date it hit, and how many people were killed in the quake, and find a real image of the quake damage.

Put everything in an Appleworks document.

Go here and download the Significant Earthquakes of the World file.

1. Loma Prieta, Santa Clara, Ca (this is also known as the San Francisco Earthquake of 1989 because most of the deaths happened in the SF area as well as the news stories)

2. San Francisco, Ca

3. Hayward, Ca

4. Indonesia

5. korfez, turkey

6. Northridge, Ca

7. Mexico City, Mexico (this was actually 250 miles away in arteaga, mexico, but all the news and images are from destruction in Mexico City)

Name this: name historic earthquakes and put it in the historic earthquakes folder on the server.

San Andreas Fault Research

Put all pictures in an Appleworks document.


1. Go here and download the San Andreas - Carrizo Plain Google Earth file.

2. Double-Click the file to open it in Google Earth and find Wallace Creek. Take a picture with Apple-Shift-4. You may need to turn off layers that are clogging the scene with icons.

3. Find 2 other creeks that are offset due to the fault and take pictures of them. Explain why they are offset.

4. Download the Historic Faults file on the link above and find The Hayward fault and take a picture of where it goes through San Leandro.

5. Tools > Enter Flight Simulator and fly down the San Andreas Fault from San Francisco to LA. The Page UP button increases thrust and the page down button decreases thrust.

Put the document in San Andreas Fault Research here.

Hot Spot Volcano Presentation

Create a five slide presentation on Hot Spot Volcanoes.

Slide One: A picture of how they work within the Earth and an explanation (#5 previous assignment)

Slide Two: A list of the names of hot spot volcanoes and an image of one of them.

Slide Three: Explain what a shield volcano is and why it is called a shield volcano. Include a picture of one.

Slide Four: Hawaii: show a picture of the Hawaiian chain of island and explain what this says about the hotspot under Hawaii and the Pacific Plate.

Slide Five: Yellowstone: find a picture that shows the size of the Yellowstone Caldera, and explain its size and that it sits on a hot spot.

Turn this in to the Hot Spot Presentation folder.

Subduction and Hot Spot Volcanoes

California Content Standard:
Students know the explanation for the location and properties of volcanoes that are due to hot spots and the explanation for those that are due to subduction.
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Today's lesson is on the differences between volcanoes formed by Subduction and volcanoes formed by Hot Spots.

In a document, do the following:

1. Start by reviewing what subduction is. Write an explanation of what it is and find an image that illustrates it.

2. What kind of Earth structures are found around Subduction Zones?

3. What kinds of volcanoes are found near subduction zones? Composite or Shield volcanoes? Go here to find out.

4. Name some volcanoes formed at subduction zones and find a couple images of these volcanoes

5. Find out what Hot Spots are. Explain what they are and find an image that shows what a hotspot is.

6. Find the names of 3 hot spot volcanoes.

7. What kind of volcano is formed at hot spots?

8. Go to Google Earth and find Hawaii. Is it near a plate boundary? Take a picture of Hawaii and the islands that stretch out. What do these islands in a line all suggest about the Pacific Plate?

Put this document on the server in the Hot Spot folder

Volcano Types Presentation

Finish your 10 slide presentation on the types of volcanoes.

Slide 1: Title: Types of Volcanoes

Slide 2: List the four types of volcanos

Cinder Cones:

Slide 3: Show an image of a Cinder Cone volcano and text explaining what kind of volcano it is.

Slide 4: Show a Google Earth image of a Cinder Cone volcano and explain something about this kind of volcano.

Composite Volcanoes:

Slide 5: Show an image of a Composite volcano and text explaining what kind of volcano it is.

Slide 6: Show a Google Earth image of a Composite volcano and explain something about this kind of volcano..

Shield Volcanoes:

Slide 7: Show an image of a Shield volcano and text explaining what kind of volcano it is.

Slide 8: Show a Google Earth image of a Shield volcano and explain something about this kind of volcano.

Lava Domes:

Slide 9: Show an image of a Lava Dome volcano and text explaining what kind of volcano it is.

Slide 10: Show a Google Earth image of a Lava Dome volcano and explain something about this kind of volcano.

Save this presentation as lastname firstname volcano types

Put it in the Volcano Type Presentation folder on the server.

Types of Volcanoes

Today we are studying the principal types of volcanoes.
Put all questions and answers in an Appleworks document.

Start by going here to answer the following questions:

1. What are the four main kinds of volcanoes?

2. How are each of the types of volcanoes formed?

3. What is the name of a volcano of each type?

4. Find an image of each type of volcano that is not on the page linked above.

5. Find the volcano in Google Earth and take a picture of it.

6. Save As "name volcano types" and put it in the volcano types folder on the server.

Active Volcanoes

Today you will study the currently active volcanoes of the world.

Go here to find a list of volcanoes that are active this week.

Study three active volcanoes by doing the following for each:

1) Explain as well as you can what the volcano is doing right now and find a picture.

2) Find the volcano in Google Earth and take a picture of it. Every volcano has a google earth link on its information page.

3) Open the Realtime Earthquakes file from yesterday's assignment and see if each volcano is near a plate boundary. Use the Tectonic Plate Boundary checkboxes to find out what kind of boundary it is. Take a picture of the plate boundary.


Put this all in an Appleworks document and turn in to the Active Volcanoes folder on the server.

Google Earth Earthquakes and Mt. Redoubt. Put all images and answers to questions in an Appleworks document.

1) Go here and open the Real-time Earthquakes file in Google Earth.

2) Find the two places in the world that have been having a lot of earthquakes lately. Where are they? Take pictures of them.

3. Do a search for Mt. Redoubt, Alaska and take a picture of it.

4. Go to Safari and search for Mt. Redoubt. Explain why it is important.

5. Go here. Find the images of current activity at Redoubt and copy the Feb. 2 image.

6. Find an image of a fumerole on Redoubt.

7. Do a search for "fumerole" and find out what a fumerole is.

8. Watch Bumpass Hell to see fumeroles and volcanic activity similar, but much smaller than what is happening at Redoubt.

9. Watch Mt. Saint Helens to see what could happen to Mt. Redoubt in the next few weeks.

Google Earth

Today we are learning how to use Google Earth. We will be using it for much of our studies of the Earth.

1. Go to Applications > Google Earth and drag the icon to your Dock.

2. Start it up, read the tip, and practice moving around the planet with the navigation tools.

3. Find SLHS using the navigation tools. Some quick tips: Holding down Control lets you fly into an area and holding down Apple lets you tilt it so you can see it from the side.

4. Once you find the school, press Apple-Shift-4 and drag your mouse across the screen to take a picture of it.

5. Now find where you live. You can put the address right into the search box. Apple-shift-4 again to take a picture.

6. Go to the Layers menu and check the box that says Street View. This will bring up pictures that have been taken of your street. Is there a picture near where you live? Look at it and Apple-Shift-4 it.

7. for the next few questions, make sure the Terrain layer is on. Find Mt. Everest and take a picture of it.

8. Turn on the Borders and Labels layer, zoom out, and tell me what two countries have Everest on the border.

9. Now go to The Grand Canyon. Try to get down near the river and take a good picture of the canyon and river.

10. Put all your images into an Appleworks document along with an explanation of what the picture is and put it in the Google Earth folder on the server.