Final Exam part 2 the earth in space

Our solar system is just a tiny speck in the Milky way galaxy, and the Milky way is just a tiny speck in the universe so on and so forth. Our solar system is a measly 28,000 thousand light years from the center of the universe.1 Our solar system is also 20 light years above the equilateral plane of the milky way.1 Our galaxy, the Milky way, is about 100,000 light years wide and we are about 28,000 light years away so our solar system is one of the closest systems to the middle of the milky way galaxy. The universe is one of the most unfathomable ideas to the human brain. the universe has never been accurately measured.  There theory's to the universe, like how the universe could still be growing,1 or that we can only really see 3 percent of the universe.1the structure of the universe is another story, the universe is supposidly started when the big bang occured billions of years ago.1 It created this mass of matter that fused and mixed with others to make galaxies and nebulae.1 the universe itself is like "primodial soup" of galaxies and  Nebulae.1 The last wondrous part of the universe is the age, before 1999 scientists had to guess the universes age but now the scientists of the world can date stars from all over the universe.1 Scientists have concluded that the universe is 13.7 billion years old, with a 200 million years missing here or there.1The big bang theory is a theory that 13.7 billion years ago our universe started as a black hole or sigularity and had a very small, really hot, infinitely dense mass that suddenly expanded and cooled to the size of the univese we have today.2 Which begs the question is our universe the only universe or could there possibly more. Cosmic Microwave background or CMB is a low level of energy released for the big bang when it happened.1 cosmic microwave backgrounds were released 380,000 years after the big bang these waves were visible to radio static and Astrophisists study them to help date the universe back to the big bang.1Once these lines used to be visible because the radiation amounts were so high from the big bang they slowly dispersed.2
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big-bang-theory.com, allaboutscience.org, copyright 2002-2011,11/21/2011,http://big-bang-theory.com/


www.nasa.gov, Goddard space flight center, 9/12/2011, 11/21/2011, http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/030827a.html




http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/030827a.html 1
http://big-bang-theory.com/ 2
http://www.metaphysics-for-life.com/big-bang-theory.html 3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang 4
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/galaxy.html 5

Final Exam part 1, Climate change

Climate Change is a rapidly changing thing in our earth's atmosphere. The green house effect is where sunlight enters the atmosphere of earth and can not leave do to buildup of gas from around earth.2 The gases that cover the atmosphere and cover our skies are mostly are Co2, Methane, Nitrous Oxide and flourinated gasses.1 First is Co2, co2 is from most natural things like animals to the 8 billion people on earth. Co2 can also come from wood products to factories using coal or oil.1 Another big greenhouse gas is Methane, methane comes from natural resources like termites or Permafrost to a wildfire in a forest. Methane can also come from human causes like Biomass burning or waste management.1 The third biggest greenhouse gas is No2 or Nitrous Oxide is also like Methane by being man made and natural.1 Man made No2 comes from water treatment, to waste management and nitrogen fertilizer's.1 The main natural N02 comes from Micro Bacteria in rainforest's.1 The last big greenhouse gas is Flourinated gases come from man made products, or processes like, aluminium products to electric powering, and Magnesium products.1 With all these gasses floating in our atmosphere they mix with the radiation from the sun. The energy comes in and reflects off of the earth's surface and gets reflected by the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (Co2, Methane, No2 and Flourinated gasses).2 These gases have strong heat trapping abilities and also acted as a blanket to help keep the sun's heat trapped on earth.2 These ain't the only things that can help cause climate change, you have natural problems to. You can have Volcanic explosions that launch ash and debris into the air blocking the sun.3 There are super volcanoes all around the world and when all of or one of them explodes they could block the sun and send us into another ice age. You can also have Sunspots that raise earth's solar radiation for a short time period.3 Another natural issue is the earth's axis is tilted so parts of earth get more energy than other parts increasing warmth of the earth. When you add these factors up they increase and help the warm up and change our climate.2 When the earth's axis is tilted it rotates oddly around the the sun giving us the seasons.


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www.epa.gov, Environmental Protection agency, April 20, 2011, 11/20/2011, http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
www.climatechangechallenge.org , 8020 CIC, 11/20/2011, www.climatechangechallenge.org/resource%20Centre/Climate-change/3-what_causes_climate_change.htm


http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ 1
http://www.climatechangechallenge.org/Resource%20Centre/Climate-Change/3-what_causes_climate_change.htm 2
http://www.ucar.edu/learn/1_3_1.htm 3
http://www.tilmari.pp.fi/tilmari6.htm 4
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/theweekinpictures/7528448/The-week-in-pictures-26-March-2010.html?image=1 5

MSU experience

I loved going to MSU. In the cyclotron building I learned...
1. the MSU cyclotron goes at half the speed of light.
2. the magnet they have is cooled down with liquid helium and has no resistence so the electrons will not stopped for 5,000 years.
3. they are adding on to the building so the cyclotron goes 99.9 to the speed of light.
4. they cyclotron will be done in 2015
5. the cyclotron experiement to find Magnesium 42 took 2 weeks to find 2
In the Planitarium i learned...
1. there is a constelation that is in greek mythology that will be eaten by a sea monster.
2. It is very easy to get motion sickness on a fast moving screen.
3. the northern star never moves in earth's rotation.

Powerpoint of Pluto

The link to Pluto.

Climate research (real)

 1. Tornadoes can happen anywhere on earth as long as the conditions are met. The weather that effects tornado alley is from the cool, dry air from canada mixing with the Warm, moist air from the Gulf.1

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2. Tornadoes happen when two different fronts mix making a thunderstorm the cool air lowers and the warm air rises making a funnel cloud that may make a tornado.1

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3. Tornadoes can cause damage anywhere from the breaking of windows to complete and utter destruction of buildings and cities. Tornadoes wind speeds can reach from 40-318 MPH. 2

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4. Tornadoes are some of the most deadly economic natural disasters there is. They can destroy everything, even human life, tornadoes can destroy homes to businusses to the people in those buildings. Like the employees to the parents or children. They can cause crop damage destroying a season or destory a city or towns Morale. 2

 

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5. Warnings are issued from the national weather service on your local telivision station. Your local community will have sirens that will go off if a functioncloud or a tornado has been spoted. Tornado signals can go off within minutes. 4

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6. The technology used is mostly doplar radar. On the doplar radar is the Tornado vortex signature or TVS is a tornadoes signature on a doplar radar using the radial velocity fields. 4

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http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/01424/where_do_tornadoes_occur.htm 1

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/primer/tornado/tor_damage.html  2

http://www.columbiatribune.com/photos/galleries/2011/may/23/joplin-tornado-damage/flash/ 3

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wtwistqa.htm 4

 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tornado_Alley_Diagram_fr.svg?uselang=fr?uselang=fr 5

http://skydiary.com/kids/tornadoes.html 6

http://www.tornadoproject.com/fscale/fscale.htm 7

Climate Research

Tornadoes can happen anywhere there is two different fronts converging. Mainly in tornado alley with the warm moist weather air in the gulf and the cool dry air coming from Canada.

Tornadoes happen because two different weather fronts collide and the warm air rises and mixes with cool falling air in a thunderstorm to make a funnel cloud that may turn into a tornado.

A tornado is one of the most dangerous natural disasters that can happen. They can move up to 300 Miles per hour.

Tornados can destroy cities neighborhoods or take human life. The most damage and costliest Tornado was Joplin MZ it cost 2,800,000,000 Dollars.

Great Lakes in the Regional Context

1. the biggest is lake superior and the smallest is lake Erie.

2. the most urban is lake Michigan the most rural is lake Superior.

3. the lake with the longest shoreline is lake Huron.

4. We can best manage the ecosystem by using less water for human activities.

5. two pollutants in our action project are Gasoline and Coal used in cars as energy.

6. The water goes into our septic tank. Runoff water is excess water that runs downhill our into the ground. Runoff water doesn't go to the same place as sewer water. It should't go to the same place. Because the water will pollute each other. Point pollution is direct affecting. Non point is travelling to a water system from a alternate source. A watershed is a water ecosystem that is protect by humans.

Conclusion for River Lab

I learned that there are a lot of variables that come into play in a river ecosystem. Our q-value for the river temperature was 13.02 and our final q-value was 9.30. I did not expect this and I didn't know what a q-value was. Our action project is on windpower and alternative energy. If we use wind power more it might cut carbon emissions and help  the plants and animals in the ecosystem.

Nature Walk

The Nature walk on friday was a fun experience. I got paired up with the boy named Robert. I learned about a lot of wild flowers and berries and we were the few who saw deer. I also learned about some bugs and diffrent leaves off trees. Overall it was a fun experience and Robert was the best Montessori kid ever.

Our water chemistry test connects to the project by warmer air causing the updraft.

We are the wind turbine group.

We don't even have the wind turbine up yet.

Keep Adam on task and to help get the word out on alterrnative energy.

Footprint post

www.mycarbonfootprint.org
It is a good site for me because younger kids wouldn't understand some questions.
My Carbon Footprint is 7.36 earths.
I can reduce my own carbon footprint by not buying stuff new.
The school can cut down their carbon footprint by turning off the lights and heat from November-March.
The community could run off more Hydroelectricity.
My action project is about the wind Turbine we are putting in the back of the school. I like Wind energy as a alternative to fossil fuels. I also like the machanics of a wind turbine I want to see how it is put together and how it works. I think wind energy is one of the best and most efficient types of energy. I hope in the future we can get more turbines.

1st post

I have never been good with computers. I want to learn how to use this macs without being frustrated or angry. I want to use technology to the best of my ability, the use of technology will only go up. If i can learn the basis of technology it can help me get a job. I still have a lot to learn and i hope this class helps.

post #1

I would like to learn a lot in global science this trimester. I want to learn more about the earth's sciences. But I would also like to learn as a society how we affect the earth, and how we can help. I want to know how to change and how to help change. I want to learn about the different sciences. I also want to learn about the solar system.