Aimee-Jo

Aimee-Jo

I’m Aimee. When I’m outside of school I like to hang out with my friends just like any other teenager. I nanny and spend lots of time with kids. I also love to travel i’m obsessed with the Caribbean; i’m there any break I get.

Currently I have been hearing issues with oil refineries being attacked in Libya. Along with the nuclear power plant releasing tons of radiation in Japan. Whenever you open a paper, turn on the news, sign online their is always something about one of these topics. It’s the world’s biggest news today because not only is it polluting our planet its killing/ harming thousands of people. Many might not think that its science related when you first think it but when you look at it deeper it’s majorly related. Oil refineries being attacked is giving off fumes released into the air that people and animals’ breathe. Pollution is a big issue that goes hand and hand with global warming. In Japan thousands of people had to evacuate their homes due to radiation exposures. Radiation doesn’t only harm people, if enough of it is exposed it kills everything. In Chernoblyl, Russia a power plant exploded leaving the town empty due to such high radiations levels and now today 25 years after the explosion plants are finally starting to grow again and people are starting to go back. If that happened again in Japan it leaves a major impact not only to our planet but to millions of lives. media type="youtube" key="g7yeqU98dX8" height="274" width="373"
 * Assignment #1**

Renewable energy can be easily replaced, such as water and sunlight energy. Nonrenewable energy cannot be easily replaced as in the fossil fuels (natural gas, oil, coal) that took millions of years to form. The three major types of fossil fuels are **coal, oil and natural gas.** ** Oil ** is the most widely used of the types of fossil fuels. Oil (petroleum) is found in natural reservoirs underneath the Earth's surface. Pumps and piping are drilled down underground to reach these stores of oil, and then it is pumped up to the surface. ** Coal ** forms from plants such as ferns, moss and trees which lived near shorelines and in swamps and bogs. When these plants die, they are slowly covered with sediment and over time pressed deep into the earth where they are affected by mounting heat and pressure. Under these conditions, the organic matter becomes richer in carbon and hydrogen, and increasingly deprived of oxygen. Coal goes through various stages of development based on its increasing carbon content, and coal containing higher levels of carbon burns cleaner than those with lower levels. The purest form of coal is graphite, which consists almost entirely of carbon. **Natural gas** forms mainly from the remains of plankton, or a type of small water organisms including algae. Consisting mostly of methane, natural gas is often found on top of deposits of petroleum due to its lower density, and is extracted in the same process. However, deposits containing only natural gas do exist. Natural gas is desirable in part because it burns cleaner than coal and petroleum. Natural gas is commonly used in residential applications for home heating and has a myriad of other applications.
 * Assignment #2**

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Sun is a renewable resource; the benefit of sun is light and heat. We live our daily life on night and day and without sun not only wouldn’t there be light, there wouldn’t be plants. Plants grow off of sun/light and water and without sun we wouldn’t have our plants. Also without our sun we wouldn’t have heat from our sunlight which dramatically affects everything we do. Wind is also a renewable resource though many think we would be better off without wind it has major benefits. Solar wind power relies off wind hence “solar wind” it saves money and energy by using the wind to give us power instead of power plants. The negative thing about wind is it can make a mess of things; hurricanes and tsunamis are followed by high winds that can rip things out of the ground. Wind also tends to be very cold and no one likes cold.

__//**Time-stamp: Friday 4-15-11, (10:30pm) Aimee has completed lesson #1 and lesson #2 on this wikispace.**// __


 * Assignment #3**

Global warming is a serious issue then is affecting the whole world. It is killing and damaging plants, animals, land and mostly humans. We should care because we should care about ourselves and the things around us. It is not a subject that we can't do anything about, global warming is preventable if everyone put in some effort to keep our earth clean and stop littering and polluting everywhere.
 * Why should we care about global warming?**


 * Global Warming: ** Due to green house gases such as methane, carbon dioxide and water vapor trap light and heat from the sun and makes the earths temperature dramatically increase. Then causes negative affects like uncontrollable forest fires, ice burgs melting, warmer water, polar bears dying, flooding land, plants dying and the list continues.


 * Climate Change: ** Long tern affects on the weathers climate. Seasons changing quicker or seasons not changing at all. Example Florida climate change is completely different then ours we get all four seasons, its summer year round there.


 * 5. **** 1. ** Polar ice caps melting, I think this is a very important one because is cause a lot of damage. Sea levels will rise which can cause flooding to lots of land. It will throw the global ecosystem out of balance. Ice caps are fresh water and them melting it gives fresh water into the ocean making it not as salty and everything gets screwed up. The temperature of water can kill certain animals. It could also cool down our earth; our sun reflects of the ice caps cause their white. If they melted they would reflect off the ocean and darker colors absorb sunlight


 * 2. ** Spread of disease: being healthy is really important. We all know countries have different type of bugs and animals tat can kill us. Look at swine flu or mad cow disease and so on. Global warming will warm the weather letting insects migrate bringing plague and disease with them. I don’t think anyone wants there town ro city being infected with bugs that can ill them.


 * Assignment #4**


 * 1. ** Global warming and climate change are not the same but global warming is making climate change a lot more likely. Climate change is when the weather is at the same for a long period of time or stays the same. Global warming is negative affects on the earth mostly because climate change. Its like if climate change didn’t exist we would be having so much global warming problems so in a way they are connected but not the same.

I think we all had the same idea and about global warming. It’s preventable so why do nothing. It affects our life and will affect our kids and so on.
**3**. The carbon cycle is the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the; biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atomosphere of the earth. It is one of the most important cycles of the earth and allows for carbon to be recycled and reused throughout the biosphere and all of its organisms




 * 4.**
 * Carbon Cycle ** : The carbon cycle is the process through which carbon is cycled through the air, ground, plants, animals, and fossil fuels.


 * Carbon sinks: ** carbon sinks is the carbon that we (humans) release and rain forest and ocean suck up. Anything that absorbs more carbon then they emit are called carbon sinks.


 * Carbon sources: ** opposite of carbon sinks if they emit more carbon dioxide than they absorb, they are carbon sources.


 * Greenhouse gases: ** gases that trap radiation emitted from the earth.


 * Greenhouse effect: ** natural process that heats the earth’s surface and atmosphere.

Greenhouse gases relate to the greenhouse effect because the greenhouse effect is a process by which thermal radiation from a planetary surface is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases and is re-radiated in all directions.

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**5.** ** A. ** Trees give out oxygen and by cutting them we are reducing are oxygen level and it messes the cycle up, our population will grow while are carbon decreases.


 * B ** . Burning fossil fuels will release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere causing the carbon dioxide rate to increase; which will create greenhouse effect, leading to global warming.


 * C ** . There are tons of things that can add carbon to the earth, any form of burning (fossil fuels), trees and plants, just us as humans breathing, engines and volcanoes. Carbon can be taken through photosynthesis.


 * Assignment #5 **

1. ** Carbon Footprint: ** The total amount of greenhouse gases produced to directly and indirectly support human activities, usually expressed in equivalent tons of carbon dioxide (CO2). Your carbon footprint is the sum of all emissions of CO2, which were induced by your activities in a given time frame.

** Ecological Footprint: ** The Ecological Footprint is rooted in the fact that all renewable resources come from the earth. It accounts for the flows of energy and matter to and from any defined economy and converts these into the corresponding land/water area required for nature to support these flows.



**3.** Service: 33% Food: 9% Shelter: 13% Mobility: 17% Goods: 28%

** 4. Three Negative Habits. ** 1, Littering, I have to admit to throwing stuff out the window while driving the worst thing possible! 2. Waste paper, I always print out or write on paper then mess up and redo it and just don’t care and I don’t even recycle its bad because it’s wasting trees. 3. I always feel the need to drive everywhere even if were going to the same place, the other day we took 3 cars to go to dinner with my family.

I can easily change all 3 by waiting till I find garbage instead of wanting to get rid of it. Using less paper and if i did mess up recycle the paper. I can start taking one car instead of 3 if were going to the same place.

Yesss! Its very important for people to understand everyone counts, Most people think “by just me doing this doesn’t count cause everyone else is still doing the opposite” but the thing is if everyone thinks like that then no ones going to do anything. If you do one thing it might to start to influence other people and your also contributing to the other people who feel all alone and making a difference.
 * 5**. //** HOW CAN YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE? **//

People always feel alone in making a difference because we are only one person and their is so much to change but its hard to explain the environmental way. If you look at it as when you’re going through issues and you talk to a friend and they say something that sticks they make a difference and their only one person. It’s the same thing throw away garbage, turn off tv your making a difference your contributing to saving energy and etc. You may not realize the impact you make but in the long run you will.

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