Earth Cup Scores

Balram and Jin Young= 10
El and Finn=10
Nikara and Amy=10 
Steve,Aj and Matthew=9
Angel and Soo Hee= 10
Denis=7
Anmol and Tasha=9
Annie and Jaja=10
Ice and Tora=8
Pornkamol=6
Palak and Anadi=9
Ninko and Prawah=10
Sid and Kong= 10 

Earhtquake in Thailand

The location: of this earthquake is in Chang Rai.  Chang Rai is in the Northern part of Thailand.
Magnitude: of 6.3 
Epic Center: in Mae Lao 
Impact killed: 1 person killed,3,500 house,10 temples,there schools,threee hospital,a hotel and a road were damaged.

Paws Reflection

Paws Reflection

Paws was really cool. I really felt bad for that cat. The cats back bone was broken because someone hit her back till it broke.  Ms.Amy was really nice. I really like her foundation to cats. Cats deserve to be on our earth. Ms.Amy told use the 5 things cats need. Cats need a good environment. They need to have food and water. They need to have friends and someone to take care of them.

Shark Guardians Reflection

Shark Guardians Reflection

When the shark guardians came to our school was a very good experience. Ms. Liz was the shark guardian. She is a very nice lady. When I heard they were coming to Thailand I was very excited because when I went to the shark guardians at TCIS I was scared to ask questions. I was scared because there were so many people there. Then when I heard them coming to our school I was happy because I could ask questions. I knew a lot about shark because of the first shark guardian I went to. When she came to our school she did not teach that much as last time. This time it was more of a Q & A session. I was very interesting knowing about the mercury in shark fin soup. I really liked asking questions to Ms. Liz. The shark guardians are doing a very good thing to society and good to Earth. 

In honor of Earth Week

This is my poster

Earth Notes

Earth stands out because 70% is covered by water. The water is divided by continents 4 oceans. The largest is the Pacific Ocean. Atlantic is second largest and Indian is third and Arctic is last. 4.5 billion years ago there was not ocean. Volcanoes and others were there. Then it started to rain and the oceans came. Earth’s shape changed a lot over time. There is sodium collide in the ocean that’s why it is salty.  Measure of the amount of dissolved solids in a given amount of liquid is called salinity. Some parts of the ocean are saltier than others. Coastal water is hotter and drier climate have lower salinity. The water movement can affect the water salinity. Places with not many waves will have high salinity. The water temperature is different in December and July.  It’s if you are near the equator and also where the sun points. It depends on the time of the year. Earth is made out of 3 basic compounds water, land and clouds. All of these three things are in the water cycle. The water cycle is continuous movement of water. Evaporation, Condensation and Precipitation. Earth needs to keep suitable for life. Oceans holds energy from the sunlight. That functions temperatures in the atmosphere.

Water Pollution

Water pollution is when you put bottles and other things that will pollute the water

1.       

      Nutrients Pollution: Waste water and the sewers that has nutrient in the water.

If it goes in a body of water it will grow algae and weed. Then it will make the water undrinkable and also clog filters. This can lead to oxygen dissolved in the water. The algae will block the sunlight so the plants underneath cannot get any sunlight. Seaweed is an example so if the algae is blocking it that means that the seaweed will not grow for a while. When the oxygen is low it can kill fish and the marine life in the water. 

2.       Ground Water Pollution: When people put chemicals in the soil. The rain will go push the chemical down underground and creates water pollution. So when people dig wells they will have to get the water cleaned. Ground water pollution is man made. It is from gasoline, oil, road salts and chemicals get into the ground water. Material can move from land surface throw the soil and ends up underground. 

3.       Surface Water Pollution: Where natural water like lagoons and rivers and hazards things comes in the water and it dissolves and that creates water pollution.Surface water is also man made. It is from all the resources in earth. We cause surface water pollution from the resources on earth. It will go to ocean,rivers,lakes. This can be polluted in a number of ways and its called surface water pollution.

4.       Oil Spillage: When the oil gets into the water and it will kill all marine life like fish and it will effect humans because if we eat the fish it is full with pollution. This is also man made. This is made by careless mistakes cause by an oil tanker that leaks oil out into the ocean. That is not the only way it will occur. Sometimes it will also break down and cause oil to leak. Sometimes it will even explode. Sometimes when people are at war the other country will dump oil into the other country's ocean.  

http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215471/oil_spills.htm
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/students/wastsite/grndwatr.htm
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/students/wastsite/srfcspil.htm
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/nutpollution.html

Easy Bib Version
Students. "Oil Spills." ThinkQuest. Oracle Foundation, Dec. 2001. Web. 11 Mar. 2014.
EPA. "Groundwater Contamination." EPA. Environmental Protection Agency, 8 July 2011. Web. 11 Mar. 2014.
EPA. "Surface Water Contamination." EPA. Environmental Protection Agency, 8 July 2001. Web. 12 Mar. 2014.
NOAA. "Nutrient Pollution Is the Process Where Too Many Nutrients, Mainly Nitrogen and Phosphorus, Are Added to Bodies of Water and Can Act like Fertilizer, Causing Excessive Growth of Algae." What Is Nutrient Pollution? NOAA, 23 Jan. 2014. Web. 12 Mar. 2014.




Real Life Example
Oil Spillage : Gulf War 1991 Kuwait
 Nutrients Pollution: Chesapeake Bay
 Ground Water Pollution:  Mississippi River some parts
Surface Water: Great Pacific Patch 

 

Soil Notes

Plants grow from the soil and the plants will feed almost all life on earth. 

The soil dwellers such as bacteria and fungi recycle once-living organisms into nutrients and soil organic matter

Most of them take in oxygen do their work and they give off carbon dioxide.

Soils are more than dirt. Dirt is a mixture of mineral, air, water and dead things

The possibilities are almost endless – bugs, bacteria, fungi, feces, worms and other things.

Soil has history they are unique, colorful and exotic layers give clue to have changed over time

Most of the earth’s land is in thin soil a variable mixture of minerals, air, water and countless living organisms

The earth’s skin is just not one soil each of it has its own story

Soils are alive they are born and breathe just like us

Soils are always created and lost. You can see soil almost anywhere.

Air, Water, Minerals, and organic matter are the basic ingredients of soils.

They occur in many combinations

Roots and organisms need the water and air that fills the space between particles.

Soils forms from deposited or exposed by sediments and things.

Soils develop as parent’s materials ages in place

Soils take it shape as the water moves

Weathering Notes

Weathering 1

Weathering is when rocks break down into the environment near earth surface. When looking at a mountain you will see piles of loose rocks from landslides weathering that has loosened them from the solid rock of the mountain. When you dig in the farm the soil you dig is the natural product of slow gradual weathering of rocks. There are two classes of weathering. Mechanical weathering: this method tear apart rocks by breaking them down. Physical fracture or pull rocks a part. Chemical weathering: this breaks down rocks atom by atom through chemical reaction. When you hit a rock into pieces by smashing it is mechanical weathering. This tear rocks apart by cracking them and they make them even smaller. Water expands when it freezes. When the temperature drops below freezing the upper surface freezes because of the air. Each freezing may wedge open just a tiny amount. Exfoliation is a term that describes peeling of layers like your skin. But for weathering it will peel of sheet of rocks. Crystals are rocks also expand and contract as they hear a cool. It does not expand that far.Rocks are poor conductors of heat. If the rock cannot take the heat it tends to break. Salt crystals grow in rock fracture or in small pores between sedimentary grains can cause rocks to lessen up and break. This happens when salty water gets into the rock of the water produces. Weathering for crystal growth is fairly restrictive there must be ready source of salt water. Ant other wedging is caused by tree roots. They are tiny and penetrate easily into fine fractures of rocks. The roots will grow anywhere. Abrasion is the mechanism of rocks breaking. The rocks will fall off the cliffs and will be left under the ground. Nearly all types of sediments. This could be in cold and wet environments. It need to be in a high elevation. 

Weathering 2

Rock will always wear away. When that happens it is called weathering. There are actually 3 different types of weathering physical, chemical and biological.

Physical Weathering

This weathering is caused by physical changes. So are when changes in temperature, freezing and thawing and the effects of wind and rain. When the rock gets hot it will expand a little when the rock gets cold it will contracts a little. Wind and rain can cause weathering.  The water expands slightly when it freezes into ice.

Biological Weathering

Animals and plants can wear away rocks. When this happens it is called biological weathering. When an animal digs into the ground also known as burrowing it will leave a crack in the rock making it split. When you see weeds grow in a crack of the rock that is because of plant roots. Plant roots can grow in side cracks. They will keep growing and the crack will keep getting bigger and bigger.

Chemical Weathering

The rocks weathered by chemicals is called chemical weathering.  Rainwater is naturally slightly acidic because of carbon dioxide. Minerals may react to rain water and cause the rock to be weathered.  

My VOLCANO

This is my volcano that i made with this cool website!

Girl Rising Note Taking

Questions I asked

1. What was Wadley’s mom’s job?

2.  How many countries did they go to help these girls?

3. How long did it take to put this film together?

4. Are we the only school who had watched girl rising?

5.  Why did the girl from Egypt have to wear the thing head?

6. Also why did she have to be silenced?

7. When the super girl killed the man then she got raped?

Note Taking

Why did the police take the houses down when they were living on the street? People should not life on the road so the police have the right to take their tent down. It is not her property.

Wadley’s mom sold potato chips

She had to cover her body with the cloth and be silenced because of their religion.

How did they choose the girl to be on the radio when she was not even educated? She was educated and she went to school.

Jasmine wanted to be strong so she told the police she got raped but she is still stood strong.

Girl Rising - Wadley in Haiti

This is her quote that she wrote "I will come back everyday until i can stay" 

Wadley was only 7 years old when the Haiti earthquake came. It had destroyed her home and her school. Haiti is near Miami. There was a huge earthqquake in 2010 that had destroyed most of Haiti. There was not much if a food supplies. Wadley Story won the Academy Award. Now Wadley is back in school learning. 

Polar Vortex Mini Research (Sean 7B)

In the USA and Canada there is this thing going around called the Polar Vortex. it has been very cold in those country's. It has at  -30. That is a all time world record. Russia and Europe have been getting more warmer. They have been getting this snow storm and strong winds after New Years. It is so bad that they had to stop planes from going any where. The airplanes are not allowed to fly now because it will be very dangerous and risky. They also had to stop the trains. It is also causing global warming. This is mainly happening in New York.
http://rt.com/news/warm-russian-winter-polar-vortex-465/ 
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/01/polar-vortex-2014-photos-of-a-chica

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