Assessment 3-2
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Assessment 3-2
Assessment 3-2
Essential Question: How Do Humans and Climate Affect Each Other?
What is climate and how does it change over time?
You have been learning much about how climate is different from weather, how climate varies throughout the world, and how humans and animals are affected by climate change. Now, show what you know by answering the questions on the Assessment 3-2 worksheet.
You have been learning much about how climate is different from weather, how climate varies throughout the world, and how humans and animals are affected by climate change. Now, show what you know by answering the questions on the Assessment 3-2 worksheet.
Instructions
- Answer the questions on the assignment sheet below.
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Assessment 3-2
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History Connection
The UV Index was invented by scientists at Environment Canada in 1992. Now countries around the world use it.
Literature Connection
Learning about how the climate of Earth changes can be a bit scary. It was scary for the people of 2200 BC in Old Kingdom Egypt and Babylon when a cold weather climate change destroyed their cities.
excerpt from - "The Curse of Akkad"
" the large fields grew no grain, the water had no fish, the irrigated orchards grew no syrup or wine, the thick clouds did not rain...Those who lay down on the roof, died on the roof; those who lay down in the house were not buried. People were hungry." Even the earthworms died.
When you think about rising sea levels, droughts, bigger storms, and melting polar ice caps, you might begin to wonder. With such big changes, what can ONE person do about climate change? Some think that by reducing carbon footprint, one can control climate. Is this possible?
This is the worldview of many ancient people - one should make great personal sacrifices to bring rain. Making sacrifices of important things like food would allow a person to control the forces of nature. The gods (or natural forces) that brought change and chaos and made the world a scary place, might change their minds.
excerpt from - "The Curse of Akkad"
" the large fields grew no grain, the water had no fish, the irrigated orchards grew no syrup or wine, the thick clouds did not rain...Those who lay down on the roof, died on the roof; those who lay down in the house were not buried. People were hungry." Even the earthworms died.
When you think about rising sea levels, droughts, bigger storms, and melting polar ice caps, you might begin to wonder. With such big changes, what can ONE person do about climate change? Some think that by reducing carbon footprint, one can control climate. Is this possible?
This is the worldview of many ancient people - one should make great personal sacrifices to bring rain. Making sacrifices of important things like food would allow a person to control the forces of nature. The gods (or natural forces) that brought change and chaos and made the world a scary place, might change their minds.
"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not end.
I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the promise between me and the people and animals of earth.
When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud: I will remember my promise, between myself and the people and animals of earth and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all people and animals."
Gen. 8 & 9 Noah and the Flood
Other people had hope that humans and animals are protected and secure in the middle of chaos, even the chaos of scary weather.
I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the promise between me and the people and animals of earth.
When I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud: I will remember my promise, between myself and the people and animals of earth and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all people and animals."
Gen. 8 & 9 Noah and the Flood
Other people had hope that humans and animals are protected and secure in the middle of chaos, even the chaos of scary weather.
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