Web quest for 201 (27 August 2010)

Dear 201 students,

Please kindly take the 1 hour lesson time to construct the following glossary for your own use, together with suitable pictures and answer the following questions which will need to be handed in at the end of the lesson.

TASK A: Make your own weathering glossary

Prepare a glossary of weathering terms based on information from physicalgeography.net. Include pictures where applicable. Definitions should be phrased in a paragraph and be sequential in its explanation. This can be a group effort. Submit the soft copies to Mrs Lim at nhsczm@nus.edu.sg. Make sure your names are at the back of the glossary you made.

1. Weathering
2. Denudation
3. Scree
4. Talus
5. Physical weathering
6. Chemical weathering
7. Biological weathering
8. Frost shattering
9. Insolation weathering
10. Exfoliation
11. Sheeting
12. Solution
13. Carbonation
14. Hydrolysis
15. Oxidation
16. Reduction
17. Regolith

TASK B: Individual work

Answer the following questions on writing paper. Remember to indicate your name and mentor group.

1. Contrast and compare frost shattering and insolation weathering. (9m)

2. Explain how carbonation occurs and suggest 3 conditions that will lead to formation of limestone landforms. (8m)

Submit TASK B at the end of the lesson. The Geog Rep (Jason) should collect everyone's TASK B and submit to a teacher in charge or to Mrs Lim's pigeon-hole (no. 86).

Online resources:

http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/chapter10.html

http://www.limestone-pavements.org.uk/geology.html

Mount Saint Helen

Here's some background and updated information on Mount Saint Helen.

First, background and update until 2007.

An a recent video uploaded to argue for more funding to continue monitoring Saint Helen. When people are asking for money, their videos are slightly more clear. :)