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| At what temperature do thing's not have enough energy to move? |
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What was the Warmest year localy?
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| What was the average temperature in the united sates on 2012? |
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55.3 F
Warmest year since records began |
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| Ex: If you judge warming by what you experience locally the results might be biased |
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What are the Results of El Nino?
El Nina?
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Trade winds flowing west from south america are week; this means little cold water being brought up from the deep ocean;and this results in the ocean being warm
Strong trade winds from South America, cooler ocean temp |
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| Change has different patterns that can make detection complex |
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| Small changes occur between observations but all in one direction |
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| Samll or large changes occur between observations, and direction changes in a non-predictable manner |
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Direction Changes from increasing to dcreasing to incresing
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| Why is there a need for Earth System Sciences? |
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- Collect long tern records to assess the climate change that is random, cyclical and directional
- collect global records to detect climate changes
- build models to predict the changes in systems by changing one or more variable
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| What are the Goals of Science? |
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Understand why things happen and predict what will hapen
Science is to adress questions about our physical and social enviorment
Science deals with things that can be observed or mesured
scientific questions are risen from social values |
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- creat models
- the best models is the one that explains the most observation of reality
- no model can contain all variables
- making all models incomplete
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what are the steps in scientific study?
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- Informal Question Ex: is it getting warmer?
- hypothesis is formed
- observe and mesure dependent and independent variables
- create a model
- use model to predict dependent in diffferent conditions
- gather new observations to test model
- attempt to verify model
- revise model
- make new predictions
- action: resolve the problem with the model
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What is the dependent and Independent variable?
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Depended (the effect)
Independent ( what is causing it to happen)
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When is a model perfected?
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| models are never percected; there is always something unexpected that will influence the results |
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| When error is lower than our needed accuracy |
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We watched a video in class about what scientific experiment?
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| An egg drop and foam it was not a good model because it didnt use flex gel |
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