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recyclee!

1. How can Fayetteville residents recycle? How about other Cumberland County residents (outside of Fayetteville, i.e. Hope Mills and Spring Lake).
Fayetteville can recycle by using the blue recycling rollout cart to collect recyclables all week long. You could just go to the nearest recycling site closest to where you live.


2. Where is the closest recycling drop-off center to your house? (or our school)
The Cliffdale site.

3. Give 2 reasons why it makes sense to recycle.
Because we can save our environment and we can save a lot of energy.

4. Most people agree that recycling is a good thing. List 9 things that recycled plastic can be made into.
bottles
shower stalls
recycling bins
scouring pads
paint brushes
industrial strapping
drainpipes
plastic lumber
flowerpots

5. What is the benefit of recycling glass?
Every ton of glass recycled saves the equivalent of 9 gallons of fuel oil needed to make glass from virgin materials.

6. List 5 things that recycled metal can be turned into once it has been melted down.
cans
automobile parts
siding
appliances
building materials.

MPG

1. Which five 2009-model cars get the best overall MPG?
2009 Toyota Prius 4-Door Liftback
2009 Toyota Prius 4-Door Liftback
2009 Honda Civic Hybrid CVT AT-PZEV w/ Leather
2010 Honda Insight EX w/ Navigation
2009 smart fortwo pure

2. Which five 2009-model cars get the worst overall MPG?
2009 Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 Coupe
2009 Ferrari F430 Coupe
2009 Bentley Azure Convertible
2009 Bentley Arnage R
2009 Ferrari California California

3. If your parent asked you for advice in picking out a new car, which car would you recommend? What criteria did you use? (you don't have to tell me what you think I want to hear)
The 2009 Honda Civic Hybrid. It would save so much money on gas and it's good for our environment. It also doesn't look like it was made by a blind person.
hahahaha :)

Lena Kelly's How To Be Green slides

1.

• If we keep exploiting natural resources, we might have to colonize to two different planets within a 50 year time period.
• We can do little things like recycling to get our Earth back where it should be.
• Stubborn people are the reasons our Earth is crumbling down. hahaha :)

2. The 50 year time period theory and that incandescent light bulbs can help our environment.

3. Is that 50 year time period theory true?

Recycle :)

I completed slides 1-4

Worst Weather Events

1. Which weather events kill the most Americans?
Flooding kills the most Americans.

2. Which weather events kill the most people (in the world)?
My guess would be a hurricane.

3. Are your answers to those two questions different? Why or why not?
Yes. Because I think more people would die from hurricanes because there is wind AND water. With floods, it could only be water.

4. Read this article. Do you agree or disagree? Why or why not?
I agree because water is really strong. They can do A LOT of damage and they could kill.

5. For your response to #1, find three weather events. Describe what happened (how severe was the storm, did anyone get hurt or die, how much property damage, include pictures, etc.).

Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Floyd were all very serve and caused a lot of damage. Katrina left 1,800 dead, Isabel left 50 dead and Floyd left at least 57 dead.

Air Pressure Maps

1. Which area of the country currently has the fastest wind speeds? (city, state) How fast is it?
It is about 29mph around Indianapolis, Indiana.

2. Which area of the state currently has the fastest wind speeds? How fast is it?
It is about 20mph around Charolette, North Carolina.

3. Which area of the country currently has the highest air pressure? (city, state) How high is it?
It is about 1022 around Coos Bay, Oregon.

4. Which area of the state currently has the highest air pressure? How high is it?
There is not no numbers on the map.

5. Why does lower pressure usually bring bad weather?
They usually bring bad weather because it brings low temperture which can cause snow storms.

Air Pressure

1. What is air pressure?
Air pressure is the pressure exerted by the weight of air.

2. Where is the closest high pressure system to Fayetteville? (city, state)
Memphis, Tennesse

3. What is the weather (temperature, precipitation, cloud cover) like there?
The weather is 53F, the precipitation is 10% and the cloud cover is partly cloudy.

4. Where is the closest low pressure system to Fayetteville? (city, state)
Boston, Massachusetts

5. What is the weather (temperature, precipitation, cloud cover) like there?
The weather is 45*F, the precipitation is 60% and the cloud cover is cloudy.

Reduce, Reuse andd Recycle

What, specifically about your topic, are you going to research?
I am researching reducing, reusing, recycling and how and if recycling can help our environment.

What conclusions did you come to? What do you recommend average citizens do to make a difference? Be specific. This is the main part of your assignment.
That we can definitely help our environment and how we can. Average citizens can buy eco-friendly shopping bags, reuse water bottles and recycle their trash.


What would happen if, worst-case scenario, nobody listened to your recommendations?
Our environment could be dangered. Global warming could get worse.

What would happen if, best-case scenario, everybody listened to your recommendations?
We could have a healthier and safer environment. Global could decrease and maybe even end.

Astronomy 2 atricles

1. Which article did you read?

Scientists Pinpoint The Edge of Space.



2. When was it published?

On April 10, 2009



3. What are 3 things you learned?

1. The University of Calgary have created a new instrument that is able to track the transition between the relatively gentle winds of Earth's atmosphere and the more violent flows of charged particles in space. With that data, the University of Calgary scientists confirmed that space begins 118 km above Earth. The Canadian Space Agency invested $422,000 into the development of the Supra-Thermal Ion Imager instrument on JOULE-II.



4. What are 2 things you found interesting?

The Supra-Thermal Ion Imager was carried by the JOULE-II rocket on Jan. 19, 2007 and that the ability to gather data in that area is significant because it's very difficult to make measurements in this region.



5. What is 1 question you still have?

How do people find out how to invent these kinds of things??





1. Which article did you read?

Cool Stars Have Different Mix Of Life-Forming Chemicals



2. When was it published?

April 10, 2009

3 What are three things you learned?

Astronomers used Spitzer to look for hydrogen cyanide, in the planet-forming material swirling around different types of stars.

The researchers detected hydrogen cyanide molecules in disks circling yellow stars like our sun.

Hydrogen cyanide is a component of adenine.

4. What are 2 things you found interesting?

Young stars are born inside cocoons of dust and gas, which eventually flatten to disks.

Prebiotic molecules, such as adenine, are thought to have rained down to our young planet.

5. What is 1 question you still have?
How did they find the cocoons of dust and gas??

FIVE astronomy topicsssssss. :D

Black Holes

A black hole is a super dense object that has an intense gravitational pull. There are two parts to a black hole, a singularity and a event horizon. Imagine a star which is much more massive than our sun, which is large enough to cause a black hole to form. What keeps this star from collapsing onto itself and becoming a black hole? The answer is that there is an intense pressure caused by nuclear reactions within the sun. When the fuel that feeds the nuclear reactions gets used up the massive star cannot support itself anymore. It then collapses to form a black hole.

Dark Matter

Dark matter is simply a name which astronomers give to any stuff in the universe which we can detect gravitationally but not actually see. In other words, the material is not emitting light of any wavelength which we can detect, but we can measure its gravitational effect on other objects in the universe. The first evidence of dark matter was found in clusters of galaxies back in the 1930's. Astronomer Fritz Zwicky discovered that the mass of luminous material in a cluster of galaxies was much less than the total mass of the cluster implied by the velocities of the galaxies.

Dark Energy

Dark energy entered the astronomical scene in 1998, after two groups of astronomers made a survey of exploding stars, or supernovas, in a number of distant galaxies. These researchers found that the supernovas were dimmer than they should have been, and that meant they were farther away than they should have been. The only way for that to happen, the astronomers realized, was if the expansion of the universe had sped up at some time in the past. No one really knows if it's anything or not. No can really explain it either.

Big Bang Theory

The Big Bang theory is an effort to explain what happened at the very beginning of our universe.

Pluto

In Roman mythology, Pluto (Greek: Hades) is the god of the underworld. The planet received this name perhaps because it's so far from the Sun that it is in perpetual darkness. After the discovery of Pluto, it was quickly determined that Pluto was too small to account for the discrepancies in the orbits of the other planets. Now, it is known as a dwarf planet.

Earth Hourrr :)

1. What do the organizers of Earth Hour want everyone to do at 8:30 PM?
To switch off our lights in a vote for Earth, or leave them on in a vote for global warming.

2. What is the point?
If we reach the target of 1 billion votes, it will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009.

3. When was the first Earth Hour?
In Sydney in 2007

4. The website talks about the big upcomming election: Planet Earth vs. Global Warming. How would one vote for Planet Earth? How would one vote for Global Warming?
For Planet Earth, you turn off the lights in your house and vice versa for Global Warming.

5. What are five things that you could do during Earth Hour to celebrate the event?
To not use so much electricity in your house, sit outside and enjoy the night, put posters up to tell everyone, wear green! and tell everybody.

Chapter 18 Webquest

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Chapter 18 Webquest

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1. What are the four main types of air masses? What does each letter stand for?
They are continental, maritime, polar and tropical.

2. Which kind of air mass(es) do you think brings hurricanes?
cT air masses.

3. Which kind of air mass(es) do you think brings drought?
The cT air masses.

4. Which kind of air mass(es) brings lake-effect snowstorms?
Most likely the mT

5. Today we learned about the four main types of air masses. In reality, there any many more than four. What are two others? Explain them.
Arctic and Highland are the two other land masses. Arctic has the same characteristics as Polar air except it is colder with even lower dewpoints and Highland air mass occurs in regions with large elevation changes over short distance.

Article 2

1. Who is the author of your article?

Vince Stricherz

2. Who is the publisher? (CNN, geology.com, USA Today, etc.)

University of Washington News

3. What are three things that you learned?

Plates can be locked together for hundreds of years, there could be major complicatons for megathrust earthquakes and the plate could slip 50 feet or more during a megathrust earthquake.

4. What are two things that you found interesting?

A fault is called megathrust, and one earthquake was estimated to have a magnitude of 9.2.

5. What is one question that you still have?

What will happen to these plates one day?

Article 1

1. Who is the author of your article?

Unknown

2. Who is the publisher? (CNN, geology.com, USA Today, etc.)

geology.com

3. What are three things that you learned?

Cracks in floors and basement walls are typical types of damage done by swelling soils, expansive soils contain minerals such as smectite clays and expansive soils will also shrink when they dry out.

4. What are two things that you found interesting?

That this could actually put buildings at risk and all the damage it does.

5. What is one question that you still have?

Is it some sort of chemical reaction?

What do I deserve?

What grade do you deserve for you 1st Quarter Blogs?

Why?

Give specific examples of things that you have done to merit that grade.

I think I deserve a low A (at the most) or a low B(at the least)

I think I deserve on of those grades because I really do work hard in and out of this class, but I do think I've forgotten about two assignments.

:)

Mass Movement

1. Define mass movement.
2. What are the different types of mass movements?
3. Which mass movement has the greatest potential to cause the most damage? Why?
4. Include at least one picture of damage caused by your mass movement.

1. The transfer of rock and soil donslope due to gravity.

2. Rockfalls, slides, slumps, flows and creep.

3. Rockfalls because what falls is fragments of rock which can be very dangerous.

Mass Movements!

1. Who is the author of your article?

2. Who is the publisher? (CNN, geology.com, USA Today, etc.)

3. Which type of mass movement is described in your article?

4. Who was affected by this movement?

5. How did the mass movement affect them?

6. Include one photo of your mass movement type (for example, ANY picture of a rockfall, landslide, mudflow, etc.)

7. What are three things that you learned?

8. What are two things that you found interesting?

9. What is one question that you still have?

1. The author of the article is Drew Mikkelsen.

2. King 5 News is the publisher.

3. Rock fall was the mass movement.

5. 5-year old Mike Martin was affected by the rockfall.

6.

7. *Rockslides are very dangerous to be around.

*Someone could seriously get hurt if caught in

a rockslide.

* Rockslides can happen at any time.

8. That a 5-year old actually saved his friend's life and

that no one died.

9. Why would little kid's climb on boulders that could

fall at any time.

1. Noelle Crombie was the author of this selection.

2. Oregonlive.com, Oregon news was the publisher.

3. A mudslide was the mass movement in this selection.

4. 5 people were injured and had to be hospitolized.

5. The mudslide crashed into the house and it was unclear

how everyone got injured.

6.

7.*That mudslides are more than just water and mud, they carry great force.

*All of that water and mud could crash through a house.

*That I should never live too close to mountains. :)

8. That almost everyone got injured as bad as they did. No one died.

9. Why isn't the article very clear about everything that happened?

1. What are the four main sciences in Earth Science?
2. Which one is your favorite? Why?
3. Include at least 1 picture.

1.Geology, Oceanography, Meteorology, Astronomy.
2. I like meteorology because weather really grabs my interest.

Projection Maps

Today you learned about the four major map projections. Which one is your favorite? Why? Include at least 1 picture.

My favorite is the Mercator Projection because I like the shape and I think it's interesting why it is like that.

Q&A Blog! :D

What grade do you expect in this class? How will you achieve that grade?

I would like to achieve an A this semester in Earth Science. I probably will get a B though because I don't remember things easily. :) I will try to achieve an A by paying attention more than I usually do, turn in work on time, try not to talk as much as I usually do and work to my fullest potential. I do have a feeling that I will do a pretty good job in this class.

:)