College of St Joseph Climate Damages & Adaptation Potential in US Discussion

1. For this assignment, you will conduct a research paper on Climate Change and its affects on any organism, ecosystem, biological process or physical process (ex: atmospheric process, water cycle, nutrient cycling, etc.). no plagarism

You will develop a hypothesis regarding climate changes’ impact on your chosen topic (ex: Climate change has a negative effect on polar bear populations in the arctic).

2. Research the reasons for the seasons and create a digital graphic demonstrating the reasons for the seasons with a short summary.

This can be hand drawn and scanned or created using any graphics program.

This can be 1 large graphic or several smaller graphics.

The change of seasons is vividly displayed in four satellite images of Lake George, New York, from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer instrument on NASA’s Terra spacecraft. Image credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team

Check attached file….

Some possible resources for creating this are:

• Word (use word art and other features)
• PPT (use word art and other features)
• Keynote (use shapes and other features)
• Pages (use shapes and other features)
• Google Docs (presentation or documents or drawing)
• Gimp (www.gimp.org free download)
• Photoshops etc….

3. For this assignment, use the website Scientific American (Links to an external site.) to find an informal science article related to this week’s content. You will need to access Scientific American through WilmU’s library webpage (http://www.wilmu.edu/library/). Simply perform a search. This review should be two pages double-paced, 12-point font. The review should contain:

Bibliographic Information:

• Authors
• Title of Article
• Date article was published

Summary:

• State the main idea or thesis of the article
• Summarize the most important information, facts and ideas presented in the article.

Personal Reflection:

• What is your critique of the article (was it effective in communicated the presented ideas)?
• What did you find interesting or surprising?
• What did you learn?