Sunday, October 26, 2008

Green House Effect



1 What is the greenhouse effect?


The phenomenon whereby the earth's atmosphere traps solar radiation, caused by the presence in the atmosphere of gases such as carbon dioxide, water vapor, and methane that allow incoming sunlight to pass through but absorb heat radiated back from the earth's surface









2 What are the 3 most common greenhouse gases?


The three most common greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide, water vapor, and methane.



3 How are the greenhouse gases produced? By many things like deforestation






4 How does the greenhouse effect impact our lives?


It impacts our life because itcauses the earth to be hotter.




5 Is the greenhouse effect good or bad? Why?
I think it is very bad because It could cause many health problems

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Offshore Drilling

1. What is offshore drilling?
Offshore drilling is act of extracting resources, primarily oil, in an ocean or lake.


2. Why is it good?
It is a a viable source of domestic production for oil to be obtained.

3.
Why is it bad?
Pollution from everyday operations and oil spills from platforms, pipelines and tankers can occur, and when oil is brought up from beneath the ocean floor, chemicals and toxic substances such as mercury

4. How do you feel about it?
I feel that there are too many risks off offshore drilling, and if it is going to be done, there should be a 100% chance that the oil will be obtained safely with no spills possible.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

^^^^All Blogs Info^^^^

I think I should get a 50/50 for all of my blogs because i worked hard on all of my blogs from start to finish without taking any breaks at all. I should get a hundred percent since I checked my punctuality, grammar, and the main issues in all of my blogs. I made sure I focused on my work and I really stressed to get an A on my blogs. That's why i should get a 50/50 on all my blogs.

Friday, October 3, 2008

Recycling is good

1. Most people agree that recycling is a good thing. Why should we recycle glass, plastic, paper and metals.Recycling saves resources used to make new materials like it saves energy . Recycling significantly decreases both air and water pollution, Recycling is good for the economy.



2. What is better recycling or reusing things? Why? Give an example.

Recycling, because if we reuse things, we won't be impacting the world, just our own lives.



3. How can Fayetteville residents recycle? Use your blue rollout recycling cart and put it by the curb by 7 a.m. in the morning.

4. Where is the closest recycling drop-off center to your home (or our school)?
Waste management Macedonia Church Rd.

5. What can you realistically do to promote recycling?
I would tell publishers to write advertisement's of recycling in the daily newspapers, or i could also make blogs on the Internet to promote people to start to recycle.









Sunday, September 28, 2008

The 2 Arcticles

1. A new contender for earth's oldest rock
2. Nell Greenfieldboyce
3. NPR.com
4.Geology
5. The earth is only around 4.6 billion years old
Earth started as a big, hot blob of molten metal and rock
Scientist have found mineral grains called zircons
6. Find the age of rocks that look at the composition
There could be rock as old as 4.3 billion years old
7. Were the earliest completely destroyed by some unusual process?

1. Inflatable Lunar Habitat to be tested in Antarctica
2. Fraser Cain
3. Universe Today
4. Geology
5. NASA uses a 50 years old tent for a design called Jameson Hunt
They are setting up a permanent base for NASA
NASA and NSF are creating a new prototype
6. The purpose of the design is to the the Inflatable Habitat
Television viewers recognize the design in the show M*A*S*H
7. What else does the prototype do?

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

The Six Crystal Forms




The six crystal forms are streak , luster , crystal form , clevage , fracture , and density.


These six crystal form minerals like streak forms a mineral copper and luster forms diamonds.


While crystal forms and cleavage forms crystals and clevage forms quartz. Last , fracture and density forms asbestos and Galena.


Friday, August 22, 2008

Renewable Resource



There are many renewable resources but there is one specific one that I am mostly in to out of all of them. The renewable resource is solar energy which is the sun's rays that reach earth. Solar energy can be converted to thermal energy or heat energy and are used to heat water and heat spaces. Solar energy can convert in electricity in two ways photovoltaic and solar power plants. Solar energy is used for heating pools, heating water, space heatings of buildings.

Thats why solar energy is my favorite because with out it we would not have the energy source we have now.