Pacific Ocean Word Hoard

North Equatorial Current: “a significant Pacific and Atlantic Ocean current that flows east-to-west between about 10° north and 20° north. It is the southern side of a clockwise subtropical gyre.”

Trade winds: “are the prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds found in the tropics, within the lower portion of the Earth's atmosphere, in the lower section of the troposphere near the Earth's equator”

Mar pacifico: “peaceful sea”

Gyre: “any large system of circulating ocean currents, particularly those involved with large wind movements.”

Andesite line: “the most significant regional distinction in the Pacific. A petrologic boundary, it separates the deeper, mafic igneous rock of the Central Pacific Basin from the partially submerged continental areas of felsic igneous rock on its margins”

Mafic igneous rock

Aleutian arc

Subduction zone: “a geological process that takes place at convergent boundaries of tectonic plates where one plate moves under another and is forced or sinks due to gravity into the mantle”

Rodinia: a renaming of Pangaea (with a different proposed configuration)

Hypoxia: low oxygen levels

Grey whale

Monterey

Carmel

Highway one

Elephant seal

Pacific sanddab

California halibut

Starry flounder

California lizardfish

Rubberlip seaperch

Spiny dogfish

Wolves Hoard

Canis lupus-Scientific name for the gray wolf

Canis lupus familiaris- Dogs

Canis rufus-Red wolf

Cache

Rendezvous site

Ungulate-mammals with hoofs like deer or elk. The main pray for wolves

Pups

Canidae

Apex predator

Keystone species

Active Submission

buffer zone

carrion-decaying meat, wolves will only eat it if there is no fresh meat available

disperser

ecological niche

extirpate-To exterminate or wholly destroy a species in an area. ☹ America used to pay people to kill wolves.

guard hairs

hackles

scent post

pelage

Wild Writing

"At the Edge of the Woods: Why Writers Need Wilderness," is an interesting read in light of our earlier discussions this semester about "wildness" and if wild spaces still exist. Also, this time thinking about how this contributes to who we are as writers.

"Living near the woods has reminded me of an intense and strange power of imagination. If I ever stop wondering about the world--if I ever think I know all the secrets of the woods--I should stop writing. Until then, I'll head into the forest, thankful and ready."

Weather Word Hoard

Celsius

Drizzling 

Fahrenheit

Forecast

Frostbite

Heat-stroke

Icy

Precipitation 

Season

UV Rays: the damaging rays from the sun.

Ultra violet rays can cause skin cancer if you don't wear sunscreen.

Temperature

Atmosphere

Isotherm: a line on a map connecting points having the same temperature at a given time or on average over a given period.

The July isotherm of 80° crosses the state a little N. And S.; thus Odessa and Konigsberg are situated on the same winter isotherm.

Freezing Rain

Vapor Trail: a trail of condensed water from an aircraft or rocket at high altitude, seen as a white streak against the sky.

We can see where the rocket launched from because it left a vapor trail.

Chinook Wind

Balmy

Biosphere

Whiteout

Moisture

Final Eco-Topic Words

1.    Purple

2.    Fragrant

3.    Reincarnation

4.    Olive

5.    Centuries

6.    Bush

7.    Tree

8.    Petals

9.    Garden

10. Planting

11. Sun

12. Drained soil

13. Painting

14. Growing

15. Dying

16. Rebirth

17. Blooming

18. Alive

19. Impermanence

20. Seeds

Impermanence

Definition: The quality or state of being impermanent.

Sentence: My place in the world is impermanent.

Petals

Definition: One of the modified often brightly colored leaves of the corolla of a flower.

Sentence: The flowers petals bloomed in the spring.

Reincarnation

Definition: The rebirth in new bodies or forms of life, a fresh embodiment.

Sentence: The leaves and flowers are reincarnated every spring. 

River Word Hoard

Stream

Tributary

Estuary-the tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream.

Converge

rivulet

Runoff

confluence-the junction of two rivers, especially rivers of approximately equal width.

Watershed

Inlet

Flood

Tide

phloem

Torrent

riverine-relating to or situated on a river or riverbank; riparian.

aqueous

Kill

Riverbed

Flow

Bioluminescence Word Hoard

1. Islet - a small island or a portion of tissue structurally distinct from surrounding tissues.
2. Aposematism- describes an antipredator adaptation in which the organism uses a warning signal (such as strange coloring, specific fur shading, or bioluminescence) that is associated with unprofitability (toxicity, difficult to eat, aggression) as prey
3. Coelenterazine- the specific luciferin (the light emitting molecule) found in many aquatic organisms.  
4. Ostracod
5. Caye
6. Luciferin
7. Luciferase
8. Helical
9. Cypridinidae
10. Chemiluminescent
11. Acorn worm
12. Phosphorus
13. Dinoflagellate
14. Chemiluminescence
15. Autogenic
16. Catalyze
17. Counterillumination
18. Aggressive Mimicry
19. Pyrosome
20. Tunicate

Aurora Word Hoard

Aurora Word Hoard:

• Aerglo - The name Aerglo is a play on the word ‘airglow’, a natural glow of the night sky from the reactions that take place in the upper atmosphere of the Earth.
• Castor - Castor is the name of the brightest star in the Gemini constellation. Together with its brother Pollux, they are called “The Great Twins” in the Greek mythology. So if you are blessed with a twin, Pollux and Castor could make excellent starry choices.
• Celestial
• Dawn 
• Eos - The Greek Goddess of Dawn
• Sunrise
• Cockcrow
• Aura
• Corona
• Halatian - the spreading of light beyond its proper boundaries to form a fog around the edges of a bright image in a photograph or on a television screen.
• Nimbus - a luminous cloud or a halo surrounding a supernatural being or a saint.
• Radiance
• Glimmer
• Sheen
• Luminous
• Ephemeral - lasting for a very short time. 
• Oblivion
• Stellar
• Astral - connected with, or resembling the stars.
• Terrestrial - relating to the Earth 
• Divine

Volcanoes Word Hoard

Lava, magma
Rupture. erupt
Mountain
Ash
Gases
Magma Chamber
Crust
Tetonic Plates
Pacific Ring of Fire
Core
Clouds
Sulfiric acid
Acid rain
Cyrovolcanoes- ice volcanoes found on other planets
Pheratic eruption- a erupton generated by steam
Mud Pots
Fumaroles- a hole in the crust often near a volcano that emits steam and gases such as carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen chloride, and hydrogen sulfide
Hot Springs
Geysers
Stratoshphere

Autumn Crocus Word Hoard

• Purple
• Bulb
• Seed
• Poisonous
• Lanceolate: shaped like the head of a lance; of a narrow oval shape tapering to a point at each end
• Autumn
• Perennial
• Meadows
• Colchicaceae
• Plant
• Europe
• Gout: a specifict constitutional disease occurring in paroxysms, usually hereditary and in male subjects; characterized by painful inflammation of the smaller joints, especially that of the great toe, and the deposition of sodium urate in the from of chalk-stones; it often spreads to the larger joints and the internal organs.
• Therapeutic
• Bloom
• Petal
• Solitude
• Colchicine: a poisonous alkaloid that inhabits mitosis, is extracted from the corms or seeds of the autumn crocus, and is used especially in the treatment of gout and to produce polyploidy in plants
• Flower
• Toxin
• Absorption

Lake Word Hoard

• Basin
• Drainage
• Algae
• Dimictic: a type of lake whose layers of temperature/density mix twice a year in the spring and fall
• Evaporate
• Water lily
• Silt
• Hydrilla (aquatic plant; invasive in the United States)
• Microcosm
• Kingfisher
• Aquaculture: the farming of fish, algae, and other aquatic organisms under controlled conditions; may also be referred to as a fishery
• Bluegill
• Floating heart (plant similar to water lilies)
• Erode
• Catfish
• Groundwater: water beneath Earth's surface which can feed into lakes or be fed by lakes
• Gar
• Flood
• Cattail (also known as typha)
• Rip current

Prairie Word Hoard

• Sward: a bunch of grass, tillers tightly grown together to look neat and tidy
• Glume: each of two membranous bracts surrounding the spikelet of a grass (forming the husk of a cereal grain) or one surrounding the florets of a sedge (a leaf like structure below a spikelet in the inflorescence)
• An inflorescence: A group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches.
• Forb
• Fens
• Sedge
• Sphagnum
• Milkweed
• Rain shadow
• Mesic prairies
• Moraine
• Switchgrass
• Slough
• Pappus: Silky fluff of milkweed seeds
• Meadowlark, Western/Eastern
• Prairie Falcon
• Merlin
• Cliff Swallow
• Blazing Star Borer Moth
• Handsome Grasshopper
• Leonard’s Skipper Butterfly
• A prairie mosaic: https://prairieecologist.com/2016/03/08/prairie-word-of-the-day-shifting-mosaic-of-habitat/

Word Hoard

Word Hoard: The Pleiades

Subaru* – a Japanese word meaning unite, which also is a term for a cluster of stars in the Taurus constellation named “Pleiades” by the ancient Greeks.

Atlas* – A titan famous for his strength in classical mythology who was condemned to support the Earth and sky on his shoulders for eternity after the defeat of the Titans.

Pleoine – An Oceanid nymph in Greek mythology who was mother to the Hyades and Pleaides.

Hyades – The five daughters of Atlas and sisters of the Pleaides, placed by Zeus among the stars.

Alcyone – a word meaning “queen who wards off evil.” Alcyone is the central and largest star of the Pleaides constellation. She is often seen as representing the whole cluster of stars.

Asterope – A double star in the Pleaides constellation which literally translates to “lightening.”

Celæno – The wife of Poseidon. Translated, her name means “darkness” or “blackness.” Celæno is sometimes referred to as the Lost Pleiad, as her star is sometimes difficult to see with the naked eye.

Electra – The third brightest star of the Pleiades, Electra means “amber,” “shining,” and “bright.” Electra was the wife of Corythus. She was seduced by Zeus and gave birth to Damascus, who became the founder of Troy.

Maia – The eldest of the Seven Sisters, Maia was said to be the most beautiful. According to Greek myth, Maia was a lover of Zeus and gave birth to Hermes.

Merope – The only Pleiad to marry a mortal, her star shines less brightly than those of her sisters.

Taygete/a – After being defiled by Zeus while unconscious, Taygeta went into hiding. For her protection, she was transformed into a doe.

Taurus – The bull zodiacal constellation between Gemini and Aries, containing the bright star Aldebaran.

Orion – A constellation on the equator east of Taurus named after Orion, the hunter in Greek mythology.

Nebulosity – The quality or state of being nebulous; nebulous matter.

Luminosity – The intrinsic brightness of a celestial object (as distinct from its apparent brightness diminished by distance).

Arcminutes – A unit of angular measurement equal to 160th of 1 degree (1/60° = 0.016°).

Magnitude – The logarithmic measure of the brightness of an object in a defined passband, often in the visible or infrared spectrum, but sometimes across all wavelengths.

Cluster – A group of stars which share a common origin and are gravitationally bound for some length of time.

Constellation – An easily recognized group of that’s that appear to be located close together in the sky and that form a picture if lines connecting them are imagined.

Soraya* – A Persian word meaning “jewel” which is used as a name for the Pleiades.

*  Most obscured/interesting words

The First American Woman Botanist

Given our discussion of "Theories of Rain" today I wanted to share this find with you all. I found her last week during a Wikipedia wandering, and I love her.


This is Jane Colden. The first American woman botanist.

Joe Bartram (Hello! William Bartram's father!) regarded her as a fellow botanist.

She discovered the Gardenia.



For more info, check out her wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Colden


Or these links:

http://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2013/08/jane-colden.html

http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.edu/pdf/articles/1995-55-2-jane-colden-colonial-american-botanist.pdf

https://www.sierracollege.edu/ejournals/jscnhm/v6n1/colden.html