SeanM

toc =About me= I'm Sean i like skateboarding, football and boxing i am athletic and i love food.

=Uses of the Allegheny Forest= The forest is 512998 acres and it was established in 1923 The forest is known its hard wood like black cherry maple There use to be a lot of wolves which kept the deer population down The vegetation was very diverse Early settlers cut down some timber for houses 1900 the deer population almost bit the dust due over hunting The fast growing trees suck up carbon and give a lot of oxygen back The forest lies in the most common place of oil Also the forest established the first research center and they were able to study relationships among vegetation and animals. The kinzua damn was the most dramatic change to development recreation in the forest

=Activities=

1. Day Hiking 2. Visiting a wilderness or primitive area 3. Visit a farm or agricultural area

1.View photograph natural scenery 2. Visit nature centers 3. Sightseeing 4. Gathering mushrooms

1.Walk for pleasure 2. Family Gathering 3. Picknicking

1. Swimming in an outdoor pool 2. Swimming in lakes and streams 3. Visit a beach

1. Snow and ice activities 2. Downhill acivities 3. Snow Mobiles

=Individual activity C=

To save water Install a dual flush toilet Go to a car wash instead of washing your car by hand Some places want to desalinate salt water but producing that takes a lot of energy and time and most likely money

=Activity A water pollution=

1. Some places i looked at were a lot of places that have industry or a power station which is where most of the pollution is coming from like in Meadville Pa they have a bronze foundry which has 24 violations and then in Armstrong pa their power plant has 12 violations. 2. There seems to be more pollution in the city most likely because there is a lot more industry and a lot more people who just don't care. 3. They seem to be point source.

http://www.wri.org/publication/content/7709/what-are-effects-of-climate-change?gclid=CKC2lKnIxJ4CFdA65QodJxBTpw http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/pages/glaciers.html http://environment.about.com/od/globalwarming/a/greenhouse.htm

=Climate Change Research=

1. Q: What are the effects of global warming? A: There are several effects of global warming that could happen like intense storms drought hurricanes etc. and if that would happen it would cause so much damage we could be in another economic crisis. 2. Q: What are some of the problems being noticed with ice burgs? A: Some problems being noticed with ice glaciers is that they are melting at an extensively fast rate. If they continue to do this then that will have drastic effects on the penguins and polar bears. 3. Q: What does burning fuels create that is bad for our ozone layer? A: Burning fuels creates carbon dioxide witch is bad for our environment and also it creates methane. With those being around it lets more rays get to the earth.


 * Ford Mustang Cobra || Mpg-14 city, 21hwy || 5.8 liter v8 || 3,354 lbs ||
 * Toyota Prius || Mpg- 44 city, 54 hwy || 1.2 liter 4cyl || 1,254 lbs ||

The Ford Mustang Cobra is a two-door sports car made for looks and its speed. The engine is a 5.8 liter v8 pushing around 460 horsepower. If you’re looking for a fuel-efficient car the Cobra is not the car for you. Being that it ways close to two tons due to handling reasons and its giant v8 motor in it its not going to be good on gas. Although if you buy a mustang with a 5 speed manual transmission it will still be bad on gas but the motor wont be constantly shifting up and down in gears therefore saving you a little bit on gas but not much.

The Toyota Prius is a four door compact car made to help decrease the air pollution and conserve on gas. Now if your looking for a car that is good on gas then the Toyota Prius is the car for you. The Prius has a little 1.2-liter 4cylender engine in it and also it runs off battery power. The car is very light waying in at 1,254 pounds it would not be a gas hog. The only problem with the car being that light is that losing control coming around turns on windy roads is possible and the cars are not that big in size making it bad if you wreck. But for the most part they are the most fuel-efficient eco friendly cars that are out not that people can afford in the world. So if you do a lot of traveling then the Prius would be the right car for you.

It says that the United states is spending over a billion dollars a day on oil over seas instead of investing the funds at home where the economy needs it. That is very true our economy sucks and could use the funding

The article states that the united states iported oil from dangerous countries which is stupid because it could put us in more of a threat Our demand for oil is so high that the prices are going up because of that. Also our oil dependance is getting hard to satisfy

If our dependance gets any higher then we may be forced to use oil that is very dirty and will take more money to clean it.

Hydrogen vehicles would be much faster than a gas powered car. The average miles per gallon is 100 mpg || The way they are made it could cost be costly which would slow the process of them if no one would want to buy them. Hydrogen could explode if they have high-pressured tanks in the cars. Right now they are made from methane and other fossil fuels so that really is not helping. ||
 * Pros || Cons ||
 * Hydrogen Vehicles ||  ||
 * Hydrogen vehicles do not emit carbon dioxide.
 * Hybrid Vehicles ||  ||

They either run off gas or electric They are not that expensive || Being that hybrid cars still run off gas technically they are still polluting the air but not as much. Making the batteries for the cars is bad for the environment. ||
 * They get about 50 miles to the gallon when its in the electric mode.

Essay Topics 1. Around our school of PAHS i would start off with puting sensors in the bathrooms where if no one is in there for 20 mins they shut off 2. In the summer reducing the air conditioning in the school and office and just use fans and windows 3. take the lap tops away and go back to standard book and pencil yes having this equipment is nice but is it really getting used as much as we thought it would be or are we just burning useless power for no reason.

1.In our bathrooms there is 7 lights some there is 6 but if we put motion sensors in the bathrooms and lowerd the bulb watt we could be saving tons of money even tho the motion sensors are relatively expensive becasue they use (pir) or passive Infrared it detects any change in radiation so its very useful schools have already started to use it even in pre-schools where there is only 3 or 4 lights in the bathrooms but the kids forget to turn the lights out themselves.

2. If you buy in a central air cooling system with a seasonal energy efficiency ratio or (SEER) you could reduce your carbon-dioxide emissions by more than 1,500 pounds a year.

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Sean McConnaughey March 31 2010 Essay topic

People always forget to turn off fans and lights in the bathroom that wouldn’t have to be a problem if there was motion sensored lights in the bathrooms. Middle schools and Elementary have already started to try it out and they have been saving money and electricity. Also if you have motion sensor and put compact fluorescent lights instead of regular ones schools could be saving mad money on the electric bill. They use 66 percent less energy than regular light bulbs.

Sean McConnaughey Science for Living Period 3

Here at Punxsutawney Area High School we use a lot of energy and a lot of it is wasted rather than used. We have bad drafts in the windows there is lights on all the time in places that don’t need to be lighted every second of the day we leave stuff plugged in that doesn’t need to be. As I was saying about the lights that don’t need to be on, in our bathrooms there is usually 7 lights some have 6 but they are always on and they don’t need to be if no one is using them. So I had come up with the idea of putting motion sensors in the bathrooms and using fluorescent light bulbs where they can be used to maximize the energy and money savings. How the motions sensors work is if no one is using the bathroom for a period of time the sensors shut the power down and of course they will pick up somebody walking in the rest room and turn the power back on. With the fluorescent light bulbs we can put those wherever they can be used like the bathrooms and other rooms in the school they use about 66 percent less energy and can last so much longer than your standard light bulb. If we replace the regular light bulbs with fluorescent ones in the bathrooms and put motion sensors in there the school could be saving more money then they think because we have 4 bathrooms up stairs and 4 main bathrooms down stairs and all the other bathrooms, which are located in locker rooms and the nurse’s office. At home I use energy efficient light bulbs and just using them in lamp lights and ceiling lights were saving about twenty-five dollars every electric bill. So if we put them in the school in all the bathrooms and any wear else suitable for them we could save the school hundreds maybe even thousands of dollars a year So that is what I think we should to conserve energy at our school. In the long run it will save money and energy and the money we save can go to a better heating system. Fix the draft in the windows, and any other thing that is also wasting energy at out school.

Sean McConnaughey Science Period 3

Commodity-A commodity is some good for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market.

1. central region 2. oil, gold 3. hills platues mountains valleys and plains

What I think the overall land use in the United States should be is agriculture and just land. I think that because we need plants and for many reasons and were tearing all of them apart for houses and crap we really don’t need. If we have more plants and more agriculture were benefiting many ways like plants give us more oxygen and also they can feed us, and make medicines for unknown vaccines. That is why I think the overall land use in the United States should be agriculture.

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