An Elevation Experiment:
How Quickly Does Spring Climb Mountains?
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2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
| Colorado
Town (lat., long.) |
School |
Elevation |
A Number of feet higher in altitude from Pueblo? |
Calculate
how many days difference: 100-feet units (A/100) |
Predicted
Emerge Date |
Actual Emerge
Date |
| Pueblo (38.30, -104.54) |
South Park Elementary |
4,662 feet |
0 |
0 |
(Actual) |
3/3. |
| Aspen (39.12, -106.79) |
Aspen Elementary |
7,907 feet |
3,245 |
32 |
4/4 |
3/30 |
| Fraser (39.96, -105.83) |
Fraser Valley Elementary |
8,550 feet |
3,888 |
39 |
4/11 |
? |
| Crested Butte (38.89, -106.92) |
Crested Butte Community
School |
8,909 feet |
4,247 |
42 |
4/14 |
? |
Calculate and Predict
- Begin by calculating columns 4 and 5 (remember Teale's theory that spring advances 100 feet each day).
- Next, watch for South Park Elementary in Pueblo to report their tulips emerging and enter the date into columns 6 and 7.
- Use your calculations from column 5 to enter your predicted dates for the other towns in column 6.
- Watch the Journey North Web site for the remainder of the schools to report tulips emerging, and record the dates into column 7.
- After you have completed the table, check to see how accurately spring can be predicted using Teale's theory.
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