Dergiler / Batı Anadolu Eğitim Bilimleri Dergisi / 2015 / Cilt: 6 - Sayı: 12
Revealing Temperature Inversion Through Environmental Education
- Sayfa
- 37–46
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Özet
Environmental education refers to organized efforts to teach about how naturalenvironments function, how human beings can manage their environment, ecosystem and todetermine some properties of the environment in order to live sustainably. One of the mainaims of environmental education is a learning process that increases people’s knowledge andawareness about the ecological properties of environment through the distribution of plantscharacterizing the ecological properties of a given area. It can be called outdoor educationand environmental education. Some special plants mostly trees and shrubs clearly showsome important aspects of the natural environment assessment. For example, temperatureinversion occurring in depressions can reveal the distribution of trees that resist against thegiven temperature. If black pine (Pinus nigra) occurs in the bottom of depression and redpine (Pinus brutia) is widespread above black pine (Pinus nigra) in the upper part of thedepression it can be stated that temperature inversion takes place in such depression.Because the resistance of Pinus nigra against cold is higher than Pinus brutia. In order toassess the existence of temperature inversion in Ovacik depression located in the BozMountains, Aegean Region is visited with a group of students. The bottom land of Ovacikdepression, which is at an elevation of 800 m, is the main occurrence areas of Pinus nigra, while the upper part of the depression at an elevation of 1000-1200 m is the main spreadingareas of pure Pinus brutia, Pinus brutia and Pinus nigra mixed forests. This situation clearlyreflects the temperature inversion occurring in winter and early spring periods.
Abstract
Environmental education refers to organized efforts to teach about how naturalenvironments function, how human beings can manage their environment, ecosystem and todetermine some properties of the environment in order to live sustainably. One of the mainaims of environmental education is a learning process that increases people’s knowledge andawareness about the ecological properties of environment through the distribution of plantscharacterizing the ecological properties of a given area. It can be called outdoor educationand environmental education. Some special plants mostly trees and shrubs clearly showsome important aspects of the natural environment assessment. For example, temperatureinversion occurring in depressions can reveal the distribution of trees that resist against thegiven temperature. If black pine (Pinus nigra) occurs in the bottom of depression and redpine (Pinus brutia) is widespread above black pine (Pinus nigra) in the upper part of thedepression it can be stated that temperature inversion takes place in such depression.Because the resistance of Pinus nigra against cold is higher than Pinus brutia. In order toassess the existence of temperature inversion in Ovacik depression located in the BozMountains, Aegean Region is visited with a group of students. The bottom land of Ovacikdepression, which is at an elevation of 800 m, is the main occurrence areas of Pinus nigra, while the upper part of the depression at an elevation of 1000-1200 m is the main spreadingareas of pure Pinus brutia, Pinus brutia and Pinus nigra mixed forests. This situation clearlyreflects the temperature inversion occurring in winter and early spring periods.