This week you should refer to the resources listed under Readings & Recommendations, and you need to complete the assignment listed under Event Study Assignment & Rubric. This week’s assignment focuses on …

• Reading and learning more about factors influencing global circulation
• Serving as a "Sphere Expert" to your Event Team
• Contributing your Sphere Group's knowledge on the interactions between the event, a hurricane, and your sphere
• Looking for possible interactions and interrelationships between the different spheres of the system 
• Writing causal chains to synthesize the interactions

Event Study Assignment & Rubric
This week you and your Event Team will look at sphere to sphere interactions and will synthesize your interactions into causal chains.

You may want to review the hurricane event before you do the Event Study Assignment & Rubric.

Read: Science Is a Study of Earth. pp. 125-134. Sources of Activities & Resources.

Recommended Web Sites: Inside the Climatologist's Toolbox: The Why Files

Marine Geology & Geophysics Images