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=About me=

My name is Jake and im a junior this year. I like to play ping pong, and tennis. I plan on winning the school ping pong tournament this year. I play on the Punxsy Tennis team. My favorite part of school is gym class and study hall.

=Uses of the Allegheny Forest= 1) One of the environmental problems was overhunting, deer and predators were almost eliminated. Tornadoes, ice storms, wildfires, and floods are also environmental problems. 2) Some of the resources produced here are charcoal, wood, alcohol, and acetic acid. 3) Some economic problems are people making campground improvements, electricity, and hot showers in the forest. 4) The Civilian Conservation Corps have a say in environmental and economical issues. Some recreational activities are camping, boating, going to the beach, having picnics, and hiking. =Total Population= 1. The 3 activities that are done here are day hiking, visiting a wilderness or primitive area, or visiting a farm or agricultural setting. 40.3% of the people who hike are between the ages of 16 and 34. 36.3% of the people who visit a wilderness or primitive area are between the ages of 35 and 54. 28.6% of the people who visit a farm or agricultural setting are age 55+. some of the other activities include mountain biking, off-road driving(which is not illegal), primitive camping, horseback riding, and migratory bird hunting.

=Individual Assignment= - In New Delhi, they get a good amount of rain and they conserve it by making it available for only 1 our in the morning. - Other people check their sinks, faucet, and toilets for leaks that could waste a lot of water over time. - They only run their washing machines and dishwashers when they have full loads of cloths and dishes. - In other places, people even use rain barrels to catch rain water and they use it to water their gardens. =Types of pollution - Activity A= The **Calumet Penreco, LLC** in Karns City, PA had 11 inspections and 55 violations. **Cuba, Village** in Cuba, New Mexico had only 1 inspection but they had 139 violations. The **Town of Bernalillo** in Bernalillo, New Mexico had 3 inspections but 71 violations. The **Naugatuck, Borough** Naugatuck, Conneticut had 22 violations. The **Wildwood/Lower Region WTF** in Wildwood, New Jersey had 10 inspections but only 2 violations. The **Usdoe Ornl** in Anderson Country, Tennessee had 1 inspection and 7 violations. b) Bernalillo, New Mexico - the problems were 48 effluent violations, 4 compliance schedule violations, and 10 **other** violations. c) Cuba, New Mexico - the problems are 1 compliance schedule violation, 35 effluent violations, and 4 **other** violations. d) Naugatuck, Conneticut - the problems were 11 effluent violations. e) Wildwood, New Jersey - the problems were 1 effluent violation. f) Anderson Country, Tennessee - the problems were 2 effluent violation =Types of pollution - Activity B= 1. This is a problem because the litter can hurt animals and their habitats, it happened from ships, boats, offshore drilling platforms, and offshore rigs.
 * 1.** a) Karns City, Pennsylvania - the problems were 6 effluent violations and 16 **other** violations
 * 2.** I chose one of my places in New Mexico and the common places were sewage systems, most of the problems were schedule violations.
 * 3.** My places were point source pollutants.

=Global Warming Notes= 1. What is global warming? It is when glaciers melt, sea levels rise, cloud forests die, wildlife is try to keep up the pace. http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/gw-overview.html

2. The greenhouse effect is the rise in the Earth's temperature. - http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/greenhouse.html

3. The keeling curve is a graph showing the variation in concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide. It shows the first significant evidence of rapidly increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeling_Curve

4. The increase in the temperature is going to lead to increasing precipitation. Certain areas will be affected by drought, tropical cyclones, and tsunamis. - http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_global_warming

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=Acid Lake Activity= 1. aluminum 2. lower body weight and smaller size and m ake fish less able to compete for food 3. frogs can survive better with acid 4. Bass, trout, perch 5. they prevent the build up of a large biomass of aquatic algae and detritus, and in nutrient cycling 6. if they could not live in the lake with acid, the biomass of aquatic algae and detritus would build up 7. 8. they use coal with a low sulfur content, they can remove the sulfur from the smoke their plants release, and can limit processes to generate high levels of acid rain. 9.car makers oppose controlling acid rain because they fear their profits will drop.

=Individual Project= 1. Ford Truck - not fuel efficient because the body is not aerodynamic. It is fuel efficient because of the engine. It runs on less fuel than other engines. Ford trucks also have 4 wheel drive. Most trucks are not fuel efficient because they do not think about fuel efficiency when designing them. They thin, about payload, towing capacity, and cargo space. 2. Honda Accord - It is fuel efficient because it is aerodynamic, and it gets 31 miles per gallon. It also has smaller tires which makes it go further per gallon. 3. The differences in the size of the car, size of the wheels, and shape of the car all affect the gas mileage.

=Oil is more than energy= 1. because if we don't have any oil, then we cant use cars, and people will not make money. 2. We get our oil from the Middle East 3. -We are running out of oil -Increasing gap between imports and exports = = -We import about 4 million barrels of oil a day -The oil demand contributes to climate change -Reliance on other countries for oil could have negative effects on our national security, economy, and environment 4. I think that the United States should not import oil from other countries.

=Products From Petroleum Project=



=Essay Topics= 1. Running out of fuel - 2. Conserving energy - 3. Alternative fuels - some alternative fuels for our school are solar, nuclear, wind, bioenergy

=Science Essay=

Jacob Palaschak Period 1 The problem with our school is the over usage of energy. What would people do if one day soon all of our petroleum would be gone? This is going to happen because of how much we depend on it. Some problems we have at our school is over usage of lights, using heaters in the springtime, using air conditioners when it’s cold out, and using gasoline for buses. We can conserve energy in our school by using alternative fuels. Some alternative fuels are solar energy, wind energy, and geothermal energy. The first alternative fuel is solar energy. Our survey determined that our school uses a lot of lights in classrooms. If we could get a few solar panels for the roof of the school, we could cut down the use of energy. We would only be able to use them when the sun is out but that is better than using energy all the time. An average solar panel costs between $400 and $1500 dollars. It is expensive but it would be worth it. The second alternative fuel is wind energy. Wind turbines are very expensive. A commercial scale wind turbine costs anywhere from $1.2 million to $2.6 million dollars. It is usually windy around our school so wind turbines would be a good way to save energy. The third alternative energy is geothermal energy. Geothermal energy is energy derived from heat in the interior of the Earth. Hot water or steam is extracted from reserves beneath the Earth’s surface by using a heat pump. This would be very expensive but it would help with our problem. In conclusion, our school wastes a lot of energy. If we keep depending on the energy we are using, it will run out faster. We need to go green and start to use some of these alternative fuels. Wind energy, solar energy, or geothermal energy are three types of alternative fuels that would be useful for us.

=Essay websites= www.**solarpanel**info.com/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Wind**_power http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/kids/energy.cfm?page=geothermal_home-basics-k.cfm

=Land Stand Paragraph= The land in the US is being destroyed and forests are being cut down. They are doing this to make room for more cities and industry and to make more money. I think the forests that we still have should be protected and used for agriculture because there are not many forests or good land left.

=Using Plants As Medicine= 1. between 25 and 50% 2. They suffered from Scurvy 3. It contained vitamin C 4. It dates back to at least 5000 years to the Sumerians 5. half of the 270000 known plants are endangered 6. Us destroying rain forests is killing the plants. 7. Because the quality of our planet depends on it.

=Hunger in the world= - Area of Afghanistan: 652,000 square kilometers - Total population of Afghanistan – 31,889,923 - Major cities: **Kabul** – 3,000,000 **Kandahar** – 468,200 **Herat** – 397,456 **Mazar-i-sharif** – 300,600 **Kunduz** – 264,100 - **International monetary fund** – 486 **CIA world factbook** – 500 - Percentage of undernourished people in Afghanistan: **1980** – 37% **1991** – 58.8% **1996** – 64.9% **2001** – 61.3% - Natural resources – gas, oil, coal, copper, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, iron, salt - Agricultural products – wheat, barley, maize, rice, fruit and vegetables; livestock – sheep, goats, cattle, and camels - Literacy rate - 28.1% - Cold winters, dry summers. Mountain regions of the northeast are subarctic with dry and cold winters

=World Hunger Powerpoint=

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