Global Change
First Midterm Exam
Professor Womersley
Due Thursday February 26th by email
Instructions
This is a take-home exam. Answer all questions, showing work where
necessary to demonstrate skills or learning, diagrams if asked or if it helps.
If you don’t know or can’t work out an answer, put down what you do know. You
may research answers. You may discuss
them with the instructor. You may not confer with other students. Submit
electronically, multiple files allowed including statistical files in JMP,
Excel, or Smith’s. Use PowerPoint for posters unless alternately agreed with
the instructor.
Exam is 20% of grade for class, 10% given for each problem below
- Access climate data using one of the web sites shown in class. Explore the data using a data analysis package such as .jmp or Smith’s Statistical Package. Develop a hypothesis relating to the data that can be tested using the package. Perform an inferential statistical analysis to test the hypothesis. Report the results, including the exploratory statistics. Discuss
- Create a poster explaining the one of the following at the high school science level:
- The Callendar Effect
- Earth’s radiation energy balance
- Tyndall’s experiments
- Keeling’s curve
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