Earth Hourrr :)

1. What do the organizers of Earth Hour want everyone to do at 8:30 PM?
To switch off our lights in a vote for Earth, or leave them on in a vote for global warming.

2. What is the point?
If we reach the target of 1 billion votes, it will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009.

3. When was the first Earth Hour?
In Sydney in 2007

4. The website talks about the big upcomming election: Planet Earth vs. Global Warming. How would one vote for Planet Earth? How would one vote for Global Warming?
For Planet Earth, you turn off the lights in your house and vice versa for Global Warming.

5. What are five things that you could do during Earth Hour to celebrate the event?
To not use so much electricity in your house, sit outside and enjoy the night, put posters up to tell everyone, wear green! and tell everybody.

Chapter 18 Webquest

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Chapter 18 Webquest

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1. What are the four main types of air masses? What does each letter stand for?
They are continental, maritime, polar and tropical.

2. Which kind of air mass(es) do you think brings hurricanes?
cT air masses.

3. Which kind of air mass(es) do you think brings drought?
The cT air masses.

4. Which kind of air mass(es) brings lake-effect snowstorms?
Most likely the mT

5. Today we learned about the four main types of air masses. In reality, there any many more than four. What are two others? Explain them.
Arctic and Highland are the two other land masses. Arctic has the same characteristics as Polar air except it is colder with even lower dewpoints and Highland air mass occurs in regions with large elevation changes over short distance.