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Opener 1/6/2015
1.
What are “Big Ideas”?
2.
What are the four classroom rules?
3.
What happens if you choose not to follow the rules?
4.
What is the correct procedure for entering class? Exiting class?
5.
What is the procedure for me to get the class’ attention?
Opener 1/8/15
1.
What do students fear the most in the lab? Why?
2.
What are the three base units of the metric system?
3.
Why is the metric system preferred by most of the world and the scientific community?
4.
What are the two parts to naming something in the metric system?
5.
What power is the metric system based off?
Opener 1/9/15
1.
1.5 L = ___________ mL = ________ kL
2.
10 mg = __________ g = _________cg
3.
50 m = __________km = ________ mm
4.
Challenge: The faucet in my bathroom drips one drop every two seconds. If it takes 575 drops of
water to fill a 100 mL bottle, how many liters of water are being wasted in one week?
Opener 1/12/2015
1.
What is a mnemonic used to remember the metric system prefixes?
2.
Why are graphs so important to scientists?
3.
What are the three most common types of graphs?
4.
5.
What is the mnemonic used for remembering the parts of the graph, and what does each letter
represent?
Where are the dependent and independent variables located on a graph?
Opener 1/13/2015
1.
Why is it important to scale your data appropriately when graphing?
2.
What does a trend line show us on a graph?
3.
Why is it so important to learn note taking methods such as Cornell notes?
4.
How is Cornell notes organized?
5.
What is a system? Provide an example.
Opener 1/14/2015
1.
Where on a graph is the depended variable located?
2.
What are the three base units of the metric system?
3.
Explain the process of converting units using the stairs method.
4.
What are the four spheres of Earth science?
5.
Why is it important to study Earth science?
Opener 1/16/15
1.
What is the difference between data and evidence?
2.
How can data be used as evidence?
3.
Why are models useful in science?
4.
What are the types of models?
5.
What is a limitation? Why do all models have limitations?
Opener 1/21/2015
1.
How would you define a theory in science?
2.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
3.
How do Red Shifts provide evidence for the big bang?
4.
Why is all matter on Earth considered to be ancient “star dust”?
5.
How do we see galaxies as they were in the past?
Opener 1/22/15
1.
Why is credibility important?
2.
What are some examples of credible sources?
3.
What are some examples of non-credible sources?
4.
How do you avoid plagiarism?
5.
What are some of the possible sources of evidence for the big bang that you may choose to research?
Opener 1/23/15
1.
What are the parts of a graph?
2.
What are the spheres of Earth Science?
3.
What is the difference between data and evidence?
4.
Why do all models have limitations?
5.
What is a system? Examples?
Opener 2/3/15
1.
About how much of Earth’s water supply is fresh water?
2.
Where is most of the Earth’s fresh water supply located?
3.
Explain the process of toilet-to-tap
4.
What is desalination?
5.
What are the reasons that desalination is not used more commonly?
Opener 2/5/2015
1.
What are the subatomic particles that make up an atom?
2.
Where are these subatomic particles located?
3.
What are the charges of each of the particles?
4.
Why do atoms form bonds with other atoms?
5.
Why does the oxygen atom in a water molecule have a partial negative charge?
Opener 2/10/15
1.
What are the charges of the atoms in a water molecule?
2.
Why is the electron density in a water molecule uneven?
3.
What does it mean that water is a polar molecule?
4.
What are hydrogen bonds and how do they form?
5.
Draw a diagram of several water molecules. Label the different atoms, partial charges, hydrogen
bonds, and polar covalent bonds.
Opener 2/11/15
1.
Explain how hydrogen bonds form.
2.
What does it mean that water has a high surface tension?
3.
What are adhesion and cohesion?
4.
Explain evapotranspiration.
5.
Explain what having a high specific heat means.
Opener 2/13/15
1.
What is density? Try to explain using the formula and a written explanation.
2.
What causes ice to float on water?
3.
Explain what “like dissolves like” means.
4.
Draw a water molecule and label the atoms, bonds, and partial charges.
5.
Why does waters high specific heat influence our climate?
Opener 2/17/15
1.
What is specific heat?
2.
How does water’s specific heat compare to that of oil?
3.
Explain what “like dissolves like” means.
4.
Draw a water molecule and label the partial positive and partial negative charged areas
5.
Draw what water molecules are doing in each of the three states of matter.
Opener 2/19/15
1.
What is the definition of salinity?
2.
What are the sources of salt in the oceans?
3.
What can cause a decrease or increase in ocean salinity?
4.
What are the two factors that influence ocean density?
5.
Draw a globe and label lines of latitude and longitude.
Opener 2/20
1.
What is salinity? What are the sources of salinity in the ocean?
2.
What is the thermocline?
3.
How do salinity and temperature affect waters density?
4.
What is a pycnocline?
Opener 2/23/2015
1.
Define latitude.
2.
How does evaporation cause an increase in salinity in the ocean?
3.
How can icebergs cause a decrease in salinity of ocean water?
4.
Explain what can cause the density of water to increase.
Opener 2/24/15
1.
Explain lines of latitude.
2.
What is density?
3.
Describe salinity.
4.
What are some processes that increase the salinity of ocean water?
5.
What does salinity have to do with density?
Opener 2/25/15
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2.
What was the relationship between density and salinity that you observed in yesterdays lab?
With this relationship in mind, think about how it might be different to swim in fresh water vs. salt
water? (think in terms of density)
Opener 2/26/15
1.
What are surface currents and what causes them?
2.
What is a gyre? Provide an example.
3.
How do surface currents affect the climate?
4.
What is upwelling and what causes it to happen?
5.
What are density currents?
Opener 3/2/15
1.
Explain why water is a polar molecule.
2.
What does it mean that water has a high specific heat?
3.
What are surface currents and how are they formed?
4.
What does it mean if something is found at “high latitudes”?
5.
How can water influence Earth’s climate?
Opener 3/3/15
1.
Explain what evapotranspiration is.
2.
What is the difference between adhesion and cohesion?
3.
What causes water to have a high surface tension?
4.
What direction do density currents move?
5.
What are deep ocean density currents caused by?
Opener 3/16/15
1. What is the beginning of class procedure?
2. What is the classroom cell phone policy?
3. What are the four spheres of Earth Science?
4. What is a sphere interaction?
Opener 3/17/15
1.
What is a system?
2. What is the difference between an open and closed system?
3.
Is Earth considered to be open or closed? Why?
4.
What spheres does the biosphere occupy?
5.
What gasses make up the atmosphere and approximately what percentages?
Opener 3/18/15
1.
Earth is considered a closed system, but the spheres of the Earth are not. Explain
why this is, and provide an example.
Opener 3/19/15
1.
What are cycles? (think water, energy, rock, etc…)
2. What is a biogeochemical cycle?
(Hint: Use word clues to help figure it out)
3.
To the best of your abilities, try to draw the different components to the carbon
cycle.
(Think about different forms of carbon, where they exist, and how they transfer
between spheres)
Opener 3/23/15
1.
What is a sphere interaction?
2.
What is the greenhouse effect?
3.
How are humans contributing to the greenhouse effect?
4.
What can you learn from this graph?
Opener 3/24/15
1.
What four elements are living organisms mostly composed of?
2.
How does matter move through the biosphere?
3.
What powers the biogeochemical cycles?
4.
What are some of the locations that carbon can exist (reservoirs)?
5.
Is carbon ever created or destroyed? Why?
Opener 3/25/15
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What are two biological processes that are part of the carbon cycle?
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In what form does carbon exist in the atmosphere?
3.
What are the four ways that carbon is released into the atmosphere?
4.
What is the greenhouse effect?
5.
Earth’s temperature has always fluctuated. Why is the current warming trend
such a concern?
Opener 4/7/2015
1. What are some of the reservoirs of the carbon cycle?
2. What are some of the molecules that carbon can exist in at the
different reservoirs (spheres)?
3. What are some sources of carbon dioxide?
4. What are possible sinks or things that absorb carbon dioxide?
Opener 4/9/15
1. What did the “plugged into CO2” activity show us?
2. What are the two CO2 problems Earth is currently facing?
3. How are humans changing the chemistry of the ocean?
4. Why should we care if we are changing the pH of the ocean?
Opener 4/13/15
1. Compare and contrast photosynthesis and
cellular respiration.
2. What is happening to the amount of CO2 in the
atmosphere?
3. Where does most of that CO2 end up?
4. Draw a diagram of what you know about the
water cycle.
Opener 4/14/15
1. What is evaporation, and what force powers it?
2. What is condensation?
3. What is nitrogen fixation, and why is it important?
4. What are the two ways that nitrogen fixation occurs?
Opener 4/15/15
1. About what percentage of the
atmosphere is nitrogen, and what form
does it take (molecule)?
2. How is nitrogen that is stored in the
biosphere released back into the
atmosphere?
3. How have humans altered the
nitrogen cycle for commercial use?
4. If nitrogen is needed for plant growth,
what happens if nitrogen runoff washes
into the ocean? (Think about algae)
Opener 4/20/15
1. What are the three main types of rock?
2. What force is responsible for forming both igneous and
metamorphic rocks?
3. What force is responsible for forming sedimentary
rocks?
4. What energy ultimately powers Earth’s rock cycle?
Opener 4/30/15
1. What are the four layers of the Earth?
2. What is the lithosphere?
3. What causes the movement of the tectonic plates?
4. What elements make up the cores of the Earth?
5. Why is the inner core solid, even though it is
extremely hot?
Opener 5/1/15
1. What direction do divergent plates move?
2. What are the three types of convergent plate boundaries?
3. What natural hazards are typically caused by transform fault
plate boundaries?
4. What does the term subduction mean in regards to plate
boundaries?
5. When plates move apart, magma upwells to create new rock.
Does this mean the Earth is getting larger over time? Why or
why not?
Opener 5/6/15
1.
What does Wegener’s hypothesis
of continental drift tell us?
2.
What is a tsunami, and what
causes one to form?
3.
How many times more powerful is
a magnitude 7 earthquake than a
magnitude 5?
4.
What force causes earthquakes to
occur?
5.
At what type of plate boundary is
new crust formed?
Opener 5/14/15
1.
What is a fault?
2. What is the difference between the
focus and the epicenter?
3. What are the most destructive
earthquake waves?
4. How do seismologists provide an early
warning of an earthquake?
5.
How are epicenters located?