Here is a great video answering a few questions that keep coming back in Geography class. Enjoy.
Here is a great video answering a few questions that keep coming back in Geography class. Enjoy.
Discuss the implications of the pollution of oceans by the disposal of radioactive material, oil and chemical waste.
Oil:
The Pacific Gyre Garbage Patch
Nuclear Waste
Chemical Waste:
Marine pollution:
Homework:
1. Read this article on ocean resources
2. Draw a sketch map identifying the biotic and abiotic resources of continental shelves, oceans and ocean floor deposits.
In class, we have been discussing corporate social responsibility and the different things corporations can do to improve their image in the eyes of consumers.
Today, you will investigate a corporation’s reaction to a major gaffe.
A gaffe is an unintentional action or remark causing embarrassment to it’s originator. i.e. a blunder.
Tasks:
1: Find a gaffe that has received national or international media attention.
2: Describe the chronology and cause of the gaffe
3: Describe the immediate reaction to the gaffe: Public outcry, bad press, drop in sales, legal proceedings etc.
4: Describe the corporation’s reaction to the gaffe: how they solved the problem AND what they did to restore their corporate image in the eyes of their consumers.
5: In your opinion, how successful was the corporation’s response? Is the company’s image still tarnished? Are sales back to their pre-gaffe levels? Higher? Explain your answer
Assessment: Criterion B
You will have today and tomorrow’s classes to complete it. (Not Monday)
Due: Thursday February 31.
Make sure to have a look at the rubric before beginning to write your essay.
IB expectation: Examine the role of oceans as a store and source of carbon dioxide (CO2).
Carbon is present in all living things and is in a state of dynamic equilibrium i.e. it is constantly the same level on Earth but always changing forms and location. It is an a state of constant flux. (Continuous change)
Dr. Martins is nominated in the upcoming Academy awards:
Write a a pragraph entitled the importance of the oceanic conveyor belt. Your paragraph must include a color, hand-drawn sketch map and the following terms:
1. What is El Nino?
2. What is La Nina?
3. What causes El Nino?
4. What happens to the Ocean during El Nino?
5. What happens to the Atmosphere during El Nino?
6. What is the geographic impact of El Nino?
7. How does the Pacific Ocean thermocline change during El Nino and El Nina?
2: Explain the Climactic, Environmental and economic effect it had on a world wide scale*.
1. The Corporation: This documentary film was made after the US Supreme court reorganized some corporations rights to be the same as those of people. (Corporations could be sued, or file lawsuits, as individuals, detached from their owners and workers.) The filmmakers then pondered the kind of person a corporation would be, based on past actions, by analyzing their actions as a psychiatrist would.
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