Directions: Select one of the following questions and answer in an essay format. Your answer should be 1000-1200 words minimum. Do not use quotes, but explain what you have learned, define key concepts and explain how processes occur. Refer to maps and graphs, pulling off statistics and country examples to validate your ideas, citing the source and page of these resources (this is what adds length). Summarize videos, articles, lectures in the modules, text, and atlas to demonstrate your comprehension of class materials. Remember, this essay is your chance to show all that you have read (ch 1-10, 18) and lecture (many of them guide you in these questions). Upload your essay to the drop box in the Week 4 module. You can use material from weekly posts within your essay. Paper is due on Sunday, April 3rd by 11:59 pm. 1. Geographers use maps to locate patterns of earth processes. Examine and describe the maps of insolation (p. 81, Geosystems), air pressure (p. 129, Geosystems), and precipitation (p. 251, Geosystems). Identify the areas of high and low patterns from each map (see lecture 2 and week 2/3 for help), and explain the earth processes causing these extreme patterns for each map. Be sure to identify and define concepts central to these patterns such as; subsolar locations, circle of illumination, low pressure and the ITCZ, high pressure, normal lapse rate, absolute humidity, cumulus clouds, and convectional lifting. Focus upon the tropics and the poles for clarity. What strategies would you suggest to relocate water from surplus moisture regions to deficit moisture regions? 2 Select two of the following climate regions and describe the temperature and precipitation patterns which characterize these regions; Tropical Rainforest (Af), Subtropical Arid (BWh), or Polar Climates (ET). For clarity, see pages 14-15 in the Goodes World Atlas. Where are these climates found on a global basis (list 4-6 countries for each climate you address)? Be sure to identify the type of precipitation and the seasonality of temperature in each climate. Refer to maps and pull off the statistics to show these patterns. How do soil patterns reflect adaptation to these constraints? 3. Describe and demonstrate the areas which receive the most and the least solar radiation on a global basis (Geosystems, p. 81). Explain how the angle of incidence and circle of illumination create these patterns, using seasonal examples of temperature (Geosystems, pp.104-107) Describe how these patterns create patterns of pressure and wind patterns which stimulate the movement of ocean currents (Geosystems, p. 142). Integrate work you did from weekly posts and module materials to elaborate upon these patterns. How does this global flow of energy allow the earth to balance global temperatures? As an energy planner, where would you suggest that we install windmills or solar panels to harness green energy?
