INSTRUCTIONS: The purpose of the current event assignment is to apply some of the knowledge you have learned from this course to a current event or topic in the news. For this current event...

INSTRUCTIONS:

The purpose of the current event assignment is to apply some of the knowledge you have learned from this course to a current event or topic in the news.

For this current event assignment, find an article in a newspaper, weekly magazine, or web-site that relates to a topic or concept that is covered in our textbook in the chapters about the LITHOSPHERE. The article should be typical newspaper article length and cover the topic in sufficient depth that you can relate to it and explain it. Provide the following when posting this assignment:

• Source and date of article (or articles, if you present information from multiple sources) in an APA-formatted reference (Links to an external site.) list


• One paragraph (100-125 words) in your words to explain the topic relationship to physical geography concepts. Include the chapter/topic and define and explain any physical geography key terms or concepts.


• One paragraph (100-125 words) in your own words to summarize the article and discuss why it is important (for example, how does this affect human lives, infrastructure, economy, biodiversity?)