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Chapter One : What Is North Carolina's Climate and What Makes It the Way It Is ?
1: The Summit School Almanac for Windows
2: Comparing Two Factors that Affect Energy Flux
3: Length of Daylight vs Daily Insolation Totals
4: Surface Air Temperatures and Insolation
5: Heating and Cooling Rates of Soil and Water
6: Heating and Cooling Degree Days
7: Comparing Surface Air Temperatures with Those of Higher Altitudes
8: How Consistent Are Local Annual Surface Temperatures ?
13: Dew Points at Higher Altitudes
14: Ingredients for Making Clouds
17: Winds at Varying Altitudes
18: Weather Map Station Models
21 : Effects of Location on North Carolina's Climate
22 : Station Model Forecasting
25 : Severe Weather Problem in North Carolina : Lightning
Chapter
Two : Which Celestial Objects Affect Us and
How
Do They Do It ?
27 : Solar Energy Applications
Chapter Three : What Are North Carolina's Geological and Oceanographic Features and How Did They Form ?
42: Cretaceous Rocks of the Coastal Plain
43: The Coastal Plain Geologic Province
45:
Radon in North Carolina Soils
Chapter Four : How Are We Affecting Our State's Environment ?
Chapter
Five : Which Local Sites Highlight Some of
the
Environmental Issues and Concerns Studied in this Course ?
53: Virtual Field Trip To Reynolda Gardens