schedule and reading thru Feb 5

Jan 15
**tasks + topics
Lat., Long., projecting world maps, scales
contour maps + slopes, learning locations
practice scales
this week:
**email teacher job/college plans

Jan 22
**Homwk #1in
read: p 3, themes; 6-11 systems + feedback; 15-18 Lat +Long; 22-25 scales+projectionsdistinguish GPS vs GIS;

Jan 29
QUIZ: Ch.1, map skills, slope,
locations list #1
MOVING RIGHT ALONG, read Chap 8 before class

Feb 5
earthquakes, volcanos
Chap. 9 (light on 295-7 and 299-305). DO note terranes/298, strike-slip/305
Graphics: *means quiz item*
8.5 generally
8.7, 8.13*p. 283 boundaries. 8.19,
9.6, 9.11, 9.12, 9.16*, 9.20, 9.21, 9.24*, 9.33*, 9.34

Feb 12
*QUIZ Ch 8, 9
*QUIZ locations list #2
start Chapter 11–read the chapter thoroughly; study guide soon

Intro unit–chap 1 and cartography and topographic mapping (3 classes)
Unit 1: Lithosphere/crust, earthquakes, volcanoes–Chap. 8,9 (2 classes)
Unit 2: landforms of river, desert, glacier; also soils and natural hazards
Chap. 11 carefully. Also highlights of 12, 13, 14, 15, 10, all in 3 nights;
Unit 3: Biogeography, Chap. 16 & climate, Ch 7 (2 classes)
Unit 4: Atmosphere, pressure, wind, weather, chap. 2, 3, 4, 5 (3 classes)
Unit 5: Natural resources, human connections (1 class) Ch 17
Leave the driving to us, take great pictures, liven up your Spring, sign up for
March 14, foothills geology, Earth Science 54D
April 18-19, Pt Reyes on the coast, Earth Science 16 D
April 25, Mother Lode geography, Geog 15
April 24-26 Mono Lake and Nevada mountains, Earth Sci 54D
May 1-3--likely extra credit for any Geography class--Calif. Geographic Society’s yearly meeting, this year at Solvang with field trips (coast, earthquakes, southern wine country, demos, new technologies, talks by undergrad and grad students, more.

CONVERSIONS TO MEMORIZE for first quiz, Jan 29:
12 inches = 1 foot 5280 feet = 1 mile 640 acres = 1 square mile
100 centimeter (cm) = 1 meter (m) 1000 meters = 1 kilometer (km)
1 km = aprx .62 mile 1 m = aprx 3.3 ft 1 inch = aprx 2.5 cm
LOCATIONS LIST #1: Quiz is Jan 29
Seas etc: Mediterranean, Black, Baltic, North, Caspian, Aral, Red, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, South China, East China, Yellow, Andaman, Sea of Okhotsk, Coral Sea, Gulf of California (=Sea of Cortez), Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, Hudson Bay, Baffin Bay, Gulf of Guinea
Lakes: Baikal (Asia), Victoria, Tanganyika, Nyasa (Africa)
Straits and strategic channels: English Channel, Bosporus Strait (outlet of Black Sea), Suez Canal, Gibraltar Strait (outlet of Mediterranean), Hormuz Strait (narrow part of Persian Gulf), Molucca Straits (near Singapore), Bering Strait (US/Russia), Strait of Juan de Fuca
Mountain Ranges:
Sierra Nevada (USA), Cascades, Rockies, Appalachians, Guiana Highlands, Andes, Alps, Pyrenees, Caucasus, Balkans, Urals, Himalaya, Tien Shan, Western Ghats, Atlas, Ethiopian Highlands, Kilimanjaro
Peninsulas and other: Kamchatka Pen., Malayan Pen., Tibetan Plateau, Yucatan, Baja California; Great Basin (of USA)
LOCATIONS LIST #2: Quiz is Feb 12
Island groups: Indonesia, Phillippines, Azores, Lesser Antilles, Galapagos, New Zealand, Japan, Maldives, Seychelles
Individual islands: New Guinea, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Taiwan, Hainan, Sakhalin, Sri Lanka, Tasmania, Madagascar, Iceland, Greenland, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Vancouver
Rivers:
N. Amer: Mississippi, Colorado, Rio Grande, St. Lawrence, Columbia, Mackenzie, Yukon
S. Amer: Parana (Plata), Orinoco, Amazon
Africa: Zambesi, Zaire/Congo, Nile, Niger
Europe: Danube, Volga, Don, Dnieper, Loire, Rhine
Asia: Amur, Amu Darya, Brahmaputra, Ganges, Indus, Mekong,
Huang Ho (Yellow), Yangtze (Chiang Jiang), Lena, Ob/Irtish, Yenisei