Humanities

__**Unwinnable Wars: Afghanistan Source Homework**__  Answers to questions 1 and 4 can be found in notebook. __**Humanities Coastal Issues Assessment Prezi and Write-up**__   media type="custom" key="8605978"   **__Coral Reefs Powerpoint__** media type="custom" key="8302562"  Note: Tasks from powerpoints can be found in google map and humanities workbook. __**Soil In Barbados powerpoint**__ media type="custom" key="8216410" __**Limestone Landscape in Barbados powerpoint**__  media type="custom" key="8216430"  __**Google MyMap: Physical Features of Barbados**__  media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=212155994487887027947.000499ac0972e1b4f690b&ll=13.217504,-59.548816&spn=0.233249,0.202561&output=embed" width="425" height="350"  __**Weathering Powerpoint:**__ media type="custom" key="8067026" ** What Factors Affect the Physical Environment of Barbados – First section of Work analysis. ** ** Criteria C: Skills of research ** Information || selects and uses some relevant information || selects and uses mostly relevant || selects and uses relevant information || uses a range of information || uses a wide range of information || __**History of Medicine Unit assessment:**__
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The entire bridge is a suspension bridge, which makes it strong and as there are cables, which hold up the deck it would allow the bridge to shake slightly in an earthquake. By being able to shake the bridge does not resist any force from the earthquake, meaning that, not much tension can build up along the bridge and it is less likely to collapse. The bridge is also made with ductile materials that absorb the shaking during an earthquake so that less tension builds up along the bridge. The ductile materials are paired with shock absorbers, which would absorb most of the shaking from the earthquake and help the bridge to remain intact. Finally shear links are used to absorb the final amounts of shaking along the towers of the bridge. The overall combination of bridge type and safety features result in the bridge being able to withstand the possible 8.2 magnitude earthquake along the San Andreas fault in San Francisco.
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MYP5 Matrix of Completed Tasks for Tectonics Unit **Jade** Unsatisfactory/ Satisfactory/ Good/ Excellent ||
 * Task || Completed Y/N || Comment
 * Continental Drift Theory || Y || G ||
 * Tectonic Plate Boundary diagrams (embedded) || Y || E ||
 * Mt St Helens case study questions (in book) ||  ||   ||
 * Volcanoes case studies intro powerpoint || Y || E ||
 * Mt Nyiragongo Case Study || Y || E ||
 * Kashmir Earthquake Case Study || Y || E ||
 * Chuetsu Earthquake Case Study || Y || E ||
 * Bridge design and explanation for Bay Bridge ||  ||   ||
 * Hospital Location || Y || E – you followed the instructions really well and found a good site. Well done. ||

**Teacher Reflection on Unit and Final Assesment** – Exellent Jade, all tasks completed well. Perhaps upload your choice for the bridge design. I like the final choice of location for the hospital and your reasons for it. You have as ever been the only one capable of following instructions.

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 * Unit #1 Assessment:**


 * Kashmir Earthquake Case Study:**


 * Mount Nyiragongo Case Study**:

excellent case studies Jade. With the Nyiragongo case study, there does however need to reference to the tectonic causes of the volcano. otherwise brilliant 8/10 (C)


 * Volcano powerpoint homework:**

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media type="custom" key="6901701" Alfred Wegener was an astronomer who then gave up astronomy and began to learn as much as he could about the earth and one day while he was looking over an atlas he noticed something. He noticed that South America and Africa fit together. Wegener believed that this was no accident and that the two continents had to be connected in some way. He then developed the idea that the two continents were once connected but had then drifted apart. At first this was just a theory but then Wegener made his ideas “real science” by collecting evidence to support his theory. His first piece of evidence was the fossil of a mesosaurus which had been found in both Brazil and South Africa. Seeing as the mesosaurus was far too small to have swum 5,000 miles across the Atlantic then clearly the continents must have been connected. Another piece of evidence was the scars and scrapes left on rocks in the Karoo Desert, South Africa. Wegener found this very unusual as glaciers would have melted immediately in such hot conditions. Then with the deposits of coal in the Arctic islands of Spitzbergen, when coal was only known to form in tropical forests, the building blocks for Wegener’s theory were set. Wegener then proposed that all of the continents were once joined in a giant “super-continent” which he called Pangea, after all, how else could all of these findings have been explained. However, his theory became greatly criticized by other geologists for a few reasons. For starters, Wegener, although well educated in geology, was not actually a geologist and was considered and outsider to the field. This along with the greatest weakness of his theory; not being able to explain exactly how the continents had moved made his theory seem unrealistic. Wegener did not know what had made the continents move and thought that it was not his problem to solve, so he waited for the answer to come along but it never came; well at least not while he was alive.
 * __Continental Drift Theory, Homework__**
 * To develop a theory, you need to design and conduct ways to test the ideas. How did Wegener make his ideas of "continental drift" real science? In your report, be sure to mention the pieces of evidence he collected and how well they supported the idea.**