Your task for this unit is to do your own research project to answer a question about patterns in the Earth's climate. That will involve developing your hypothesis, determining your own procedure, finding data to test your hypothesis, analyzing the data, and drawing conclusions.   You will face some of the problems that scientists face when they are trying to find answers to similar questions.  If you do a good job you will learn something new about the Earth!

 The Task is your overall goal for the Unit.  A series of Activities will help you accomplish the Task.
The Rubric's Cube symbol suggests the task provides a challenge for you to deepen your understanding of science. 
 

 
We shall not cease from exploration
and the end of all our exploring
shall be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time.

Little Gidding
T.S. Eliot


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Landscape of Ice, Nunavut Territory
  CANADA

 Nunavut, in the extreme northern part of
 Canada, covers an area of 772,260 square
 miles (1.9 million km2) of archipelagos, water,
 and ice. In the winter, when temperatures can
 go as low as -34¡F(-37¡C), the permanent ice
 floe at the center of the Arctic and the coastal
 ice floe formed by the freezing estuaries and
 bays link up, offering a landscape of
 continuous ice that can be traveled by dogsled
 and snowmobile. In the summer the ice melts
 and is broken up by sea currents and winds,
 creating drifting platforms called packs. This
 seasonal release of the waters reopens the
 migratory routes of whales and other marine
 mammals. Nunavut is occupied by more than
 20,000 Inuit, who represent 85 percent of the
 local population. Its name means 'our land' in
 the Inuit language, Inuktitut. 

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