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Education Introduction
Glossary
Mt. Logan: Route Finder
Trivia: First Nations
Curriculum Units
Traditional Knowledge Unit
The Importance of Oral History Unit
1992 Climb Unit
1925 Climb Unit
Duke of Abruzzi Unit
Science Unit One: Mapping
Science Unit Two: Mountain Building
Science Unit Three: Climate Change
Lesson 1: Preparatory lesson
Lesson 2: The Water Cycle and Research of Terms
Lesson 3: Modern Weather Conditions on Mount Logan
Lesson 4: Ice Cores 1
Lesson 5: Ice Cores 2
Lesson 6: Ice Cores 3: The Mount Logan Area
Mount Logan Climate Change - Final Quiz
Science Unit Four: Glaciation in the Mount Logan Area
Science Unit Five: Mountain Environment
Trivia: Climbing
Mount Logan Climate Change - Final Quiz
Answer the following questions as completely as possible, using as much detail as you can.
1. Define the following terms:
a. sublimation:
b. condensation:
c. evaporation:
d. precipitation:
2. How do the above four terms relate to the water cycle?
3. What is the Jet Stream?
4. Where does the water come from which falls on Mount Logan as precipitation?
5. What is an ice core and what can it tell us about climate?
6. How are ice cores dated?
7. Where is most of the ice core research done?
8. What have we learned so far from the Mount Logan ice cores?
9. What do researchers hypothesize we may be able to learn with further testing?
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