| Lesson Dates: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 (A-Day) and Wednesday, January 27, 2016 (B-Day) Standard(s): SC.912.E.7.9, SC.912.E.7.7 Objective(s): (1) Describe factors that affect how the sun warms Earth, (2) Discuss the role of wind patterns in determining climate, (3) Explain how the oceans affect climate, (4) Describe how climate is affected by topography, volcanoes, regional vegetation, and periodic changes in Earth's orbit, (5) Identify evidence of global warming, (6) Explain three methods used to study climate change, (6) state the probable cause of global climate change. Essential Question: What factors determine Earth's climate? What evidence shows that global climate change is occurring, and why is it happening? Vocabulary: greenhouse effect, greenhouse gas, thermohaline circulation, El Niño, topography, global climate change, global warming, proxy indicator, climate model, fossil fuel |
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