Name 1: Name 2:
Name 3:
GOALS: (1) Make observations from CO2 and temperature records to (1) decide how CO2 and temperature have been, and are, changing, (2) practice and example of “doing calculations by hand” to provide test data for coding, (3) practice very rudimentary “algorithm design”.
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Make 3 observations about each of the temperature and CO2 records
Temp1. _________________________________________________________________________________________
Temp2. _________________________________________________________________________________________
Temp3. _________________________________________________________________________________________
CO2-1. _________________________________________________________________________________________
CO2-2. _________________________________________________________________________________________
CO2-3. _________________________________________________________________________________________
B. Write down one question you have about each record. (Try to pick a different question for each one).
1. _________________________________________________________________________________________
2. __________________________________________________________________________________________
C. Estimate (from the graphs) by how much temperature and CO2 have between 1960 and the present.
Temperature:_________________________________________________________________________________
CO2:_______________________________________________________________________________________
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D. Imagine you have a file that contains the data needed to make the plot in 4 columns with year, month, temperature, and CO2 (i.e. an average value per month of CO2 and temperature) in each column and you wanted to write code to do the calculation in C. What would your code need to do? Try to break this down into very explicit steps (any number of steps)
Step 1:_________________________________________________________________________________________
Step 2:_______________________________________________________________________________________
Step 3:_______________________________________________________________________________________
Step 4:_________________________________________________________________________________________
Step 5:_______________________________________________________________________________________
Step 6:_______________________________________________________________________________________
D. Based on the data in the CO2 plot, for how long do you think you need to observe CO2 to decide whether it is increasing? Write down how you decided this.
How long?_____________________________________________________________________________________
Reason?_______________________________________________________________________________________
E. Based on the data in the temperature plot, for how long do you think you need to observe temperature to decide whether it is increasing? Write down how you decided this.
How long?_____________________________________________________________________________________
Reason?_______________________________________________________________________________________
