{"id":1642,"date":"2014-02-28T21:19:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T21:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jo-online.vsb.bc.ca\/blogs\/jo\/martin\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2014-02-28T21:19:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T21:19:43","slug":"mini-science-10-martin-28-feb-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/jsmartin\/2014\/02\/28\/mini-science-10-martin-28-feb-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini Science 10 Martin 28 Feb 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albedo and Heat Islands:  Choose a city (other than Vancouver) and compare the albedo of the urban areas to that of the surrounding natural landscape.  Explain how this could contribute to the city as a &#8220;heat island&#8221; (see p. 461).  Ensure that you demonstrate an understanding of albedo, and refer to the absorption\/reflection of radiation, as well as insulation of infra red radiation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albedo and Heat Islands: Choose a city (other than Vancouver) and compare the albedo of the urban areas to that of the surrounding natural landscape. Explain how this could contribute to the city as a &#8220;heat island&#8221; (see p. 461). Ensure that you demonstrate an understanding of albedo, and refer to the absorption\/reflection of radiation, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/jsmartin\/2014\/02\/28\/mini-science-10-martin-28-feb-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mini Science 10 Martin 28 Feb 2014<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mini-science-10-martin-1-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/jsmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/jsmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/jsmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/jsmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/jsmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/jsmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/jsmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/jsmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/jsmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}