Urban Environmental Geography – HW09 Due Feb 24, Wednesday.

(Turn your assignments and green sheets into piles on the back table, not into your lab books. The piles let me know they need grading.)

Two parts to your homework:

PART A. 10 points -- Complete Encounter Geosystems Chapters 6 and 7.

5 minute rule: work on a question 5 minutes, max. At 5 min… write “5 min” as an answer… and quit working on that question. 5 minutes means you’ve thought about it… but not spent egregious amounts of time on it.

PART B. 20 points.... this part is much more important.

Apply Earth systems concepts to your urban setting. Critical thinking.

Pick two (2) of the following.

· Precipitation

· Potential and Actual Evapotranspiration

· Water Balance

· Ground Water

· The general climate type (climate classification)

· Climate change

(1) Explain conditions at your urban setting. One way to do this is to do the lab section of your workbook for your urban setting.

This will be a few sentences with some qualitative and quantitative information.

(2) Think Earth systems thoughts...

Think Earth systems thoughts... meaning... go through a checklist in your mind... cut and paste this list. Think about each... but not all will be affected in a way that matters to you as an urban environmental geographer... but you still should be open to the idea that it might... so go through the check list. Jot down some ideas… think about each of the subsystems… jot down ideas for three of five.

how does __________ affect the atmospheric conditions of my city (weather and climate)?

how does __________ affect the hydrosphere relationships of my city (water supplies, water issues)?

how does __________ affect the biosphere of my city (directly its flora and fauna, and its "footprint" its agricultural dependencies)?

how does __________ affect the geosphere relationships (tectonics, erosion / deposition... directly or indirectly)?

how does __________ affect the anthrosphere of my city (quality of life, metabolism of the city (what it consumes, and produces, including wastes)?

(3) Write a paragraph (maximum of two) that explain(s) how the phenomenon affects your urban setting. Such as “How (air pressure patterns... )___________ affects your urban setting and/or how your urban setting affects ________.”

 For each of the concepts (two from the bulleted list, above).