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Earth Science B — Water, Climate, Resources and Hazards (California)
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4 Sections
20 Lessons
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Unit 1: Earth’s Systems and California’s Water
5
1.1
Snowpack, Reservoirs and a Thirsty State
50 mins
1.2
Porosity and Permeability: How Aquifers Hold Water
100 mins
1.3
Groundwater and the Sinking Valley
100 mins
1.4
Modeling a Groundwater Basin
100 mins
1.5
Performance Task — A Water Plan for One Basin
150 mins
Unit 2: Weather, Climate and the Energy Balance
5
2.1
Fog in July: Weather, Climate and Sunlight
100 mins
2.2
Why the Coast Stays Mild: Heating Water and Sand
100 mins
2.3
What Changes Climate? Orbits, Sun, Volcanoes and Gases
100 mins
2.4
The Greenhouse Effect by the Numbers
100 mins
2.5
Performance Task — Explaining California’s Climates
150 mins
Unit 3: Climate Change: Evidence and Models
5
3.1
The Keeling Curve and a Warming World
50 mins
3.2
Carbon Dioxide Meets the Ocean
100 mins
3.3
How Do We Know? Fingerprints and a Rising Sea
100 mins
3.4
Climate Models and Human Choices
100 mins
3.5
Performance Task — An Evidence-Based Forecast for California
150 mins
Unit 4: Resources, Hazards and Human Impacts
5
4.1
Living with Hazards: Fire, Shaking, Drought and Sea
50 mins
4.2
Engineering Runoff: Testing Permeable Surfaces
100 mins
4.3
Lithium, Sunshine and Gas: Weighing Resources
50 mins
4.4
Simulating Solutions: Fire Spread and Shaking
100 mins
4.5
Performance Task — Engineering Resilience: A Proposal for a California Community
200 mins
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