Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

- don't forget to bring your dish to school before 1st period tomorrow!

Math
- pg. 454-455 #1-31 all

- Quiz #7 tomorrow (covers Holt 9-1 to 9-6)
Concepts to know:
  • rays (make sure you know how to write the symbol)
  • lines (make sure you know how to write the symbol)
  • line segments (make sure you know how to write the symbol)
  • planes (make sure you know how to write the symbol)
  • points
  • classification of acute, obtuse, and right angles
  • vertical vs. adjacent angles
  • complementary vs. supplementary angles
  • polygon
  • "regular" polygon
  • classification of triangles: by length of sides --- scalene, isosceles, equilateral AND by measure of angles --- acute, obtuse, right

Science - If you didn't bring your food web/mini-essay, you definitely need to tomorrow!!!

- Chapter 16 Quiz tomorrow
Concepts to know:
  • weather vs. climate
  • characteristics (amount of rainfall, location, type of plants) of each of the six biomes: grassland, desert, tundra, taiga, rainforest, temperate deciduous forest
  • the relationship between the latitude of a location and how much solar radiation it gets
  • difference of summer and winter temperatures of an inland city vs. a city near the ocean (think Minneapolis vs. Portland)
  • reasons for why deserts are formed (atmospheric pressure) as well as the difference between a rainshadow desert and a fog desert
  • benefits of a rainforest
  • tundra as a "carbon-sink" for carbon dioxide
  • relative humidity
Short Answer Question: Explain how land biomes near the water have more regulated temperatures than biomes with no water.