2009+Kellie+F

__**The Power of ONE **__

Hello, my name is Kellie Faber. I am a Senior at Brokfield High School. I have blue eyes, and blonde hair. I like to draw, and paint. I like to go hiking, and I am in love with Huskies, and I would kill for one. :) I am hopefully going to college at Western Connecticut State University, and I'm majoring in English, and minoring in Art, hopefully to become a teacher in one of those subjects.

We are surronded by science all the time; the science topics that I tend to hear most about is the enviornment, and how the air is polluted. The air is polluted because of all the cars, and because of the way that people treat the enviornment, and how they seem to not care.  [|Climate Change:] Is is change in long term weather patterns. The amount of snow fall, or rainfall, can either increase or decrease. For example, the weather normally for March, and April is suppose to be warm weather, but right now, its very cold, with a foot of snow on the ground! [|Global Warming:]  Is an average increase in the Earth's temperature, which ends up causes climate change. Such issues that global warming would affect would be, changes in rainfall patterns, a rise in sea level, and a wide range of impacts on plants, wildlife, and human life. 

1) Spread of the disease: The biggest disease now-a-days is malaria. These mosquitoes carry a whole bunch of diseases and plague with them when they move to the northern, warmer areas. This is the number one concern about global warming, because as of right now malaria is the number one killer, and you never know which mosquitoe is carrying this disease. Its scary because you might get bit by one of these, and think nothing of it, and then next week, you are feeling sick, and end up dying because you have this disease.Also, these mostiquoitoes reduce the populations of dragonflies, lacewings, and frogs that eat the mosquitoes, which mean that there will be many more mosquitoes flying around.
 * __ Why should we care about global warming ?? __ **

2) No more Tropical Island vacations: There is going to be no more of these nice, expensive vacations, because all of the coral in the ocean is going to be gone, thanks to global warming. One sign of global warming is when the color of the coral is bleached, which is also a sign of no alive animals. The brighter colored coral is telling you, that one, the coral is alive, and two the animals are alive in it. Another thing, that would be affected by global warming is the Islands themself, because without the coral reef, the island has no protection from the rough sea, and if there is no protection, then if a big hurricane comes, then the island is basically just going to be washed away.

3) No more big salmon dinners, or lobster dinners: The way the water is becoming warmer due to global warming, wild pacific salmon have already vanished from 40 percent of their habitats in the Northwest. They are either leaving, or dying becasue of the way the water is, the warmer waters are going to erase 41 percent of their natural habitat. Lobsters love the cold water, that is what they live in, and when the water rises in temperature it gets harder for them to survive. So they also are going to die, or move to another ocean.

4) Marine life attacks!: Last year at least 30,000 poeple were stung by jellyfish along the Mediterranean coast, some area's had more than 10 jellyfish per square foot of water. Jellyfish normally stay in the deeper waters where the water is more warmer, but when jellyfish realized that the water was warmer near the shore, and near the swimmers, they migrated there and when they felt attacked they would sting. Giant squid also known as an “aggressive predator” which grows up to 7 feet long and can weigh more than 110 lbs! The Giant squid used to only be found in the warm waters along the Pacific equator. Hotter waters mean today they’re invading the waters of California and even Alaska, which means that they are going to be swimming where humans swim, which means more deaths. __Carbon Cycle__
 * __Carbon Cycle:__** Th e carbon cycle is a complex series of processes through which all of the carbon atoms in existence rotate    . Carbon is cycled through the air, ground, plants, animals, and fossil fuels. The carbon cycle starts off with carbon moves from the atmosphere to plants,next crbon moves from plants to animals, next carbon moves from plants and animals to the ground, after that carbon moves from living things to the atmosphere, next carbon moves from fossil fuels to the atmosphere when fuels are burned, and after that, carbon moves from the atmosphere to the oceans. A pretty good website that I found was : [|Carbon cycle website]. The other website that I found was, [|Carbon Cycle Website 2]

__**Greenhouse Gases:**__ It mainly helps with keeping the earth at a specific tempeture, and the temperature that I found that that the greenhouse gases keep the earth at is 33 degrees Celsius warmer than it would be without these gases in the atmosphere. Which, is also called the greenhouse effect. Over the past century the earth's temperature has lowerd .5 degrees celsius. Greenhouse gases absorb this heat and ‘trap’ it in the lower atmosphere. Greenhouse gases, and the greenhouse effect have much in common, which is something that I never knew. A website that was good for the greenhouse gases is this one: [|Green house website] and other website is, [|green house website 2] ** Fossil Fuels **: Are non-renewable sourse of energy. Fossil fueles are formed by plants and animals that we alive 300 million years ago. Fossil fuels are told to be found in deposits beneath the earth. The fuels are burned to release the chemical energy that is stored within this resource. Over 85% of our energy demands are met by the combustion of fossil fules.

**"** How is the balance of the carbon cycle affected?"

made of carbon. If they emit more carbon dioxide than they absorb, they are carbon sources. are released into the atmosphere. to produce energy in the form of ATP. contained in their body, enters the earth's crust. for million's of years, eventually returning some of the carbon through volcanic euruptions. photosythesis storing the carbon in their cells. because they take more carbon out of the atmosphere then they had to. ||
 * Carbon Sources (+) || Carbon Sinks (-) ||
 * * Soil, natural gas, peat and coal are mainly
 * A carbon source is greenhouse gases is that
 * An organism that can use carbon sources
 * Burning wood
 * burning plastics
 * Power Plants |||| *When plants and animals die the carbon
 * The earth's crust keep carbon locked up
 * Plants soak up carbon dioxcide during
 * Plants & tree's are known as carbon sinks

How can __YOU__ make a difference? 3 bad habits that I have are: 1) Not recycling enough 2) Doing large loads of laundry at early times 3) Driving around town, with no place really to go.

An action plan to state how I could change these three bad habits in order to improve the carbon cycle, would be that I could really try and recycle my bottles at school.. Normally, it's sad but true, is that I'm to lazy to open up the top of the recycling box to throw my bottle away, instead I just throw them in the garbage, where they are not recycled. I've heard this many times, and I'm not sure if it's true, but doing your bigger amount of laundry after 8pm saves energy, because most people around that time are heading off to bed, and not doing laundry, and I've also heard that running your dishwasher over night is better, which I can say, that my mom does do. But the only down fall about that, is that it would require me to stay up a little extra longer to get my clothes, and put them in the dryer and fold them; but I am to tell you the truth going to try it tonight, and see how it goes! And the last thing, is I have this tendency to drive around town with no place to really go, when instead I could take my dog for a walk, or go hiking in the back of my woods, and then just drive to places that I really have to go to, and then just drive to work, and school. If I lived closer to the school, then I might think about walking, but I do not live close to the school to walk to it.  **__<span style="font-size: 120%; color: #ba1c1c; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;">How can YOU make a difference? __** YES! I most definitly think that one person can make a difference. Even if it's not a big difference, every little bit counts these days. If someone who feels that he/she cannot make a difference because they are one person I would tell them, why on earth would you think that? And then I would sit down and I ask them if they were aware with what was going on with the enviornment, and maybe they just don't know how much is happening to world. I would talk to them somemore, and tell them how if we keep cutting down the tree's then not only are animals going to not have a place to live, but we won't be able to survive, believe it or not because tree's give off oxegyn, and they help us breathe. If we don't have tree's then there will be to much carbon dioxcide in the air, and it will harder for us to breath, leading to deaths, and ending up killing us. I would tell this person that I found a really good website that he/she should go to, and talks more in depth about ONE thing that you can do, here check out the website: [|Jodi Rell's: One Thing] This website is good, because it tells you, not one, not two, but MANY different ways that you could help with the enviornment, and some of them aren't even hard to do, for example like carpooling saves us from pollution. A pretty good video that I found, I would definitly show to this person, is [|Global Warming], and one about the [|Carbon Cycle]. These are not boring video's and I was even interested in them, which means that some other teenager would be interested in watching them also. I would also show them these pictures below:
 * __Action Plan:__**

([]) [|( Ice cream cone website)] The first picture on the left shows you about the greenhouse effect and the warming of the atmosphere by the trapping of longwave radiation being radiated to space. The gases most responsible for this effect are water vapor and carbon dioxide. and the second picture shows all about global warming, and how you can see that the world is going to melt soonger or later. And the picture below shows about the carbon cycle (left) and the one on the right is polar bears and how their enviorment is becoming to an end because of global warming that all the ice is melting, and they can't swim as far as they think that they can. Well I'm hoping with the video's and the pictures that I changed your mind how much you can help the enviorment, even if its just ONE, SMALL thing, YOU can make a difference

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