Sunday, October 25, 2009

World Climographs

Here is a website that has climographs of different cities and regions of the world.

http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/616/631756/abcontrol/pages/question.html

Mr. Gibson

Monday, October 5, 2009

WE HAD 16 EARTHQUAKES ON SUNDAY!!!!

Ni hao,

Follow this link. On Oct. 4th Taiwan had sixteen earthquakes! You can read about them at the United States Geological Survey Website.

http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V6/seismic/quake_index.htm

Mr. Gibson

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Erosion

Loess Plateau (wind erosion)
picture= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:5902-Linxia-County-Xihe-township-canyon.jpg
article = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loess_Plateau

Why is erosion so bad in Northern China? How much of the erosion is natural erosion? How much of the erosion is caused by human beings? Why do they continue to do it?

VOLCANOES!!!

Here is a diagram of a volcano...
http://www.nuuanu.k12.hi.us/G-1/public_html/websites/Lance/images/volcano.jpg

Here are where all the world's volcanoes are located...
http://www.intute.ac.uk/hazards/images/volcano_world.gif

Here's what happens when the gases start to come up from the mantle...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaChWgbn18Y

Fault Lines
http://www.jochemnet.de/fiu/earth3.jpg

The Ring of Fire
http://share1.esd105.wednet.edu/bishopcj/AU/essimages/ring_of_fire_red.GIF

What happens when your country is on the Ring of Fire? Just ask Indonesia, Alaska, and Japan...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Map_indonesia_volcanoes.gif
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Map_of_alaska_volcanoes_carlisle.jpg
http://virgil.org/dswo/fs/japantour/shared/japan-volcanoes.gif

Hydrologic Cycle

Here are some drawings of what happens during the Hydrologic Cycle.

http://www.solcomhouse.com/images/hydroweath.jpg

http://www.buffer.forestry.iastate.edu/Photogallery/illustrations/Images/Hydrologic-Cycle.jpg

This one has some definitions for you!

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.environment-canada.ca/water/images/nature/prop/hydrologic-rev.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.environment-canada.ca/water/en/nature/prop/e_cycle.htm&h=301&w=450&sz=22&tbnid=m8QCtuEdY4wa4M:&tbnh=85&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhydrologic%2Bcycle&hl=en&usg=__lTsLC9Zp5r7YNta2d8DvRwFq6kw=&ei=DUbJSqzIHYWO6AOqhZjwBA&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=6&ct=image

Hydrologic Cycle

Here are some drawings of what happens during the Hydrologic Cycle.http://www.solcomhouse.com/images/hydroweath.jpghttp://www.buffer.forestry.iastate.edu/Photogallery/illustrations/Images/Hydrologic-Cycle.jpgThis one has some definitions for you!http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.environment-canada.ca/water/images/nature/prop/hydrologic-rev.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.environment-canada.ca/water/en/nature/prop/e_cycle.htm&h=301&w=450&sz=22&tbnid=m8QCtuEdY4wa4M:&tbnh=85&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhydrologic%2Bcycle&hl=en&usg=__lTsLC9Zp5r7YNta2d8DvRwFq6kw=&ei=DUbJSqzIHYWO6AOqhZjwBA&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=6&ct=image

Friday, October 2, 2009