How is geographic information system hardware different from most other technical hardware? What other fields use these same hardware components? Describe the ways in which geographic information system software is different from other computer software.
Describe the two types of climate hypotheses that involve interactions between CO2 and weathering. Explain one difference between these two hypotheses.
Explain how the concepts of solar declination, sun angle, day length, insolation and temperature are related to one another. For full credit, do so by using San Diego as the example location and explaining. How solar declination changes throughout the year relative to our non-changing location
Describe and give examples of the different types of ecosystem services. Then explain how you would assign a dollar value to each type of ecosystem service.
What is the interaction between interests and sentiments and between concerns for status and for social connection in material desire?
Describe sustainable forest management and how this can reduce deforestation. Given that consumers still need wood products, do you think sustainable forest management is feasible? Explain your stance based on what you have learned in class.
Define the Coriolis Effect and explain the direction of apparent deflection of moving objects in the northern and southern Hemispheres.
Each agricultural area of the world domesticated different fruit and vegetable crops which in turn form the basis for diverse cultural cuisines. Today we can find almost all of these different foods in our local grocery stores and we can eat special dishes from many different countries in a single day. Do you think the […]
Describe the results of interactions between portions of the electromagnetic spectrum emitted from the Sun and Earth and atmospheric gases pertinent to human health and climate.
Explain why solar energy output and corresponding Total Solar Irradiance on Earth change over time and the duration of output cycles. Why is the average amount of energy from the Sun over the entire surface of the Earth less than the value of Total Solar Irradiance from the Sun to the Earth?
