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toc =About Me= I am a junior in high school. I enjoy writing poems and hanging out with friends. I spend most of my time with my family. I am also currently in college taking up politics. I am going to college to become a lawyer or teacher.

=Uses of the Allegheny Forest=
 * 1) In 1981 the Allegheny Forest was used for its oil.
 * 2) Today it is known for its black cherry, maple, and other hardwoods.
 * 3) In the 1800's it was mostly cleared out for agricultural purposes, also to provide timber for cabins and barns.
 * 4) The hemlock bark was used for tanneries.
 * 5) From 1850 to 1900 people growing west demanded lumber to build homes, stores, and furniture.
 * 6) The demand for paper and pulp products also increased.
 * 7) In the 1900s overhunting caused deer and their predators to go almost extinct.
 * 8) Between the years 1890 and 1930, wood chemical plant were producing charcoal, wood alcohol, acetic acid, acetate, and other similar products.
 * 9) In 1911 the government was allowed to buy land and make it a national forest.
 * 10) Cherry, red maple, black birch, and sugar maple became common species in the understudy.
 * 11) In 1897 watersheds came about and supplied people with trout.
 * 12) In the 1940's the forest service gradually let lumber services start cutting trees again. This was under strict studies.
 * 13) In 1923 they started doing research on it. They research animals, vegetation, nutrients, soil, disease, and weather.
 * 14) In the 1930's people started hunting and fishing.
 * 15) In the 1850's tanneries that used hemlock for curling leather began to appear.

=Recreational Uses= Nature-based land activities - visit a wilderness or primitive area, day hiking, and visit a farm or agricultural setting. I found driving off-road interesting. Viewing/learning activities - view/photograph natural scenery, visit nature centers, and sight seeing. I found view/photograph fish interesting. Developed-setting land activities - Walk for pleasure, family gathering, picnicking. I found driving for pleasure interesting. Water-based activities - swimming in an outdoor pool, swimming in lakes, streams, etc., visit a beach. I found waterskiing interesting. Snow/Ice-based activities - snow/ice activities (any kind), down hill skiing, snowmobiling. I found cross-country skiing interesting.

=Water Shortages= Look at some of the articles on this site http://www.scientificamerican.com/report.cfm?id=water List some of the ways that areas are coping with water shortages and making water available.

They are limiting the use of water by limiting the supply. They are raising the cost of the water so they use less. They are taking the water out of the oceans and lakes

=Water Pollution Activity A=

1. What places did you look at and what were the pollution problems there? Western Pennsylvania -
 * 1) Plum Boro Mun Auth/ Holiday Pk - high violations
 * 2) Watson Standard Company - high violations
 * 3) Hampton Twp Allison Park WPCP - high violations
 * 4) Ambridge Boro STP - high violations

Mississippi -
 * 1) Woodland Park Mobile Home Village - high violations
 * 2) Chevron Texaco Products Co - low violations
 * 3) Hc/Long Beach Pass Christian - low violations
 * 4) Diamondhead Water/Sewer Dist - high violations

New York -
 * 1) Winebrook Hills Sd STP - low violations
 * 2) Old Forge (T) Sewage Disposal Plt - low violations
 * 3) Speculator (V) WWTP - high violations
 * 4) Adirondack Fish Culture Sta - low violations

Hawaii -
 * 1) Wailua WWTP - high violations
 * 2) Kailua Regional WWTP - low violations
 * 3) Waikiki Aquarium - high violations
 * 4) Honouliuli WWTP - high violations

Ohio -
 * 1) Ken Butts Dba Laurel Bell Apartments - low violations
 * 2) Russellville W.W.T.P. - low violations
 * 3) Dayton Power & Light Co. J.M. Stuart Station - low violations
 * 4) Our Lady of Visitation Church - low violations

Oregon -


 * 1) City of Coos Bay STP No. 1 Coos Bay - low violations
 * 2) Northwest Aluminum Company Northwest Aluminum Company - low violations
 * 3) Confed Tribes of Warm Springs Warm Springs WWTP - low violations
 * 4) City of Coos Bay STP No. 2 Empire Coos Bay - low violations

2. Discuss in your group the various places you chose. What common pollutants/industries/problems exist among the area? You may need to discuss them as rural vs. city issues. They are from industries. The rural areas aren't as bad as the cities because there are less industries in the rural areas.

3. Are these pollutants or problems point source or non-point source pollution problems? They are non-point because they aren't dumping them directly into the polluted area.

=Water Sources Activity B=


 * 1) Why is this a problem? How did it happen? People are going and leaving their plastic, cigarette butts, and balloons on the beaches and not cleaning it up.
 * 2) How is human health, aquatic organisms, and other organisms affected? Give an example of organisms affected and the problems it is causing.human heath is effected by the area being polluted and not managed and it is killing our sea life and limiting the supply of food we get from it. It is hurting the animals that get food from the area such as birds. The garbage is going into the rivers, streams, and oceans and the sea life is eating/breathing it in and it could potentially kill them.
 * 3) What steps do you think need to happen in order to stop this from becoming a larger problem? We need to clean the area more and give fines out to the people and other things that pollute the area. We could ban them from the premasis.
 * 4) Our households are a major problem of pollution. Read the articles here and there. What should people do to reduce water pollution that affects all of our water? they could use less chemicals and cleaners, We could put filters on our systems.

=Climate Change Research= 1. What are the main contributors to global warming? 2. Is there such thing as global warming? 3. Will there be another ice age? 4. What is the economical impact of global warming?
 * Fossil Fuels such as: coal, oil, and natural gas, carbon dioxide. Other chemicals such as: methane, nitrous oxide, and halocarbons. and black soot. other additional chemicals related to urban pollution also contribute to greenhouse warming. carbon dioxide is the main contributor to greenhouse warming. It stays in the air longer and longer as the concentrations continue to rise.
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 * Yes there is such a thing as global warming, it is a state of the earth that shows signs of warming up but not cooling down. The rate of warming is increasing. The 20th century's last two decades were the hottest in 400 years and possibly the warmest for several millennia, according to a number of climate studies. And the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports that 11 of the past 12 years are among the dozen warmest since 1850. The arctic is melting and is believed to be all ice before the year 2040 comes around. Glaciers and mountains are rapidly melting as well. Montana Glacier National Park only ha 27 glaciers compared to its 150 back in 1910.
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 * Global warming has delayed the next ice age. Miller and his colleagues' have newest studies that reveal that the 20th century's abrupt warming has in fact interrupted millennia of steady cooling. Miller added that Earth will eventually slip back into the pattern of steady cooling but it may be thousands of years before it does so. Miller and his colleagues found that the wobble in Earth's tilt causes Arctic temperatures to drop by about 0.36 degree Fahrenheit (about 0.2 degree Celsius) every thousand years during a cooling phase. Human-caused global warming has overwhelmed that gradual cooling in the mid-1990s, shooting temperatures up by about 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit (about 1.4 degrees Celsius) over the course of a few decades. Four of the five warmest decades in the past 2,000 years has occurred in the 1950s.
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 * caused a small increase in forests and small decrease in non-forest vegetation. An authoritative international study of the impacts of global warming on food security concludes that as many as 63 to 369 million additional people could be at risk of hunger in 2060 if global warming is not controlled. Crops would decline and food could become scarce. If the sea-level rises caused by melting ice from the polar ice caps then over 20 million people in Egypt and Bangladesh will become displaced into other areas in the world. A much greater sea-level increase could be in danger of happening if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet were to just suddenly collapse. Although scientists think it is remote it cant be ruled out. the United States would loose 8000 square miles of land, valued at about $650 billion, and 30-80% of its coastal wetlands. Global Warming has increased the amount of rain fall in the United States cause the warmer air can hold more water vapor than the cooler air. When it rains, it pours. It is causing more diseases to be appearing more often such and lyme disease and malaria due to the warmer weather.
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=Individual Project=

Car !: 2010 Hybrid Honda Civic Sedan - how they effect fuel economy - this is a smaller car so the more mpg it would have. this has a 4-cylinder engine so it omits less junk into the air and it will have better miles per gallon. this is a manual car so it would make is slightly more efficient. it is a 5-speed so it would be more efficient than to one below. it has a top speed of 123 so it would be polluting less and last longer. this has a horsepower of 140 so it has a pretty small engine therefore it wont be as big of a burden on fuel economy.
 * engine - manual
 * engine layout -
 * cylinders - in-line 4
 * displacement - 1.799
 * horsepower - 140
 * @ rpm - 6300
 * torque - 128
 * compression ratio - 10.5:1
 * top speed - 123 mph
 * 0-60 mph - 9.7 seconds
 * fuel consumption - city (estimate) - 26 highway (estimate) - 34
 * speed - 5

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Car 2: 2010 Porsche Boxster - how they effect fuel economy - this is a slightly bigger car so it would have a little less mpg. this is a 6-cylinder engine so it would omit more junk into the air. this is an manual engine so it would be more efficient. this is a 6-speed so it would be less efficient than the one above. it has a higher top speed so it will be burning more gas and polluting more air. this has a horsepower of 255 so it has a slightly bigger engine therefore it would be a bigger burden on fuel economy than the top one. []
 * engine - manual
 * engine layout - mid engine
 * cylinders - 6
 * displacement - 2.9
 * horsepower - 255
 * @ rpm - 6400
 * torque - 214 lb. ft.
 * compression ratio - 2.5:1
 * top speed - 163 mph
 * 0-60 mph - 5.6 secondse
 * fuel consumption - city (estimate) - 19 highway (estimate) - 27
 * speed - 6

=Alternative Fuels Pros and Cons= Battery Powered Vehicle: 2. Cons -
 * 1) Pros -
 * doesn't omit many chemicals
 * power last longer
 * uses a lot of electricity
 * not as much mileage

Garbage Powered Vehicle: 2. Cons -
 * 1) Pros -
 * unlimited supply
 * won't pollute the air with hazardous chemicals
 * not very much mileage
 * doesn't go very fast

=Oil is More Than Energy=

How is oil production/distribution as well as political and economic issues related? we are running out of oil and are fighting over it. different countries want it from the same source as other ones and disputes are breaking out. we are getting low and we need it so we are trying to get it from where ever we can.

View this resource to see where we get our oil: []

Write 5 statements that are concerns expressed in this article.
 * we are becoming too dependent on it.
 * we are spending too much money on it overseas other than here at home.
 * burning it opposes a security threat to our national and world's security.
 * we are causing the other nations to become dangerous and unstable.
 * we are causing benefits for countries that don't even sell it to us.

What do you think? Research more information if needed to back up your statements. I agree with most of it. we need to start putting more money into the u.s instead of other countries. it is one of the things causing our economy to crash. we are way to dependent on it, we need to lower the use and maybe even limit it. we need to stop taking it away from other countries because they may need it just as much or even more than we do. []

=Products From Petroleum= =Essay Topics= 1) putting sensors in the classrooms so we dont use lights when not needed. 2) eliminating text books all together so we can save paper. 3) eliminate the laptops.

Putting sensors throughout the school so we dont use the lights when not needed. schools with light sensors - Harvard Business School in Connecticut put in light sensors as well as in their dorms, dinning halls, lecture halls and offices. [] energy saved with light sensors - you save up to 1/4 to 1/2 of the energy you are using. 10% - 19% of energy saved has been reported in classrooms. 45% and 3% has been saved in offices and 86% and 73% for restrooms. [|www.lrc.rpi.edu/resources/pdf/dorene1.pdf] =Essay= The problem here in the school that I have discovered is that we are wasting a lot of energy by leaving the lights on through out the school when nobody is in the rooms. How we could change it is by putting sensors in the school so that when nobody is here they automatically shut off. We have found, by our own research, that out of all the rooms in the school about 33% have their lights on when nobody is even in the room. It is relatively cheap because all you would need to buy would be the sensors. There are no extra wires needed and the cost is as low as $21. By putting in light sensors you will be saving up to ¼ to ½ of the energy you are using. A study done by The Lighting Research Center said that they saved 10% - 19% of energy in classrooms, 45% and 3% in offices, and 86% and 73% for restrooms. Some schools that have changed are Harvard Business School in Connecticut. Links above apply to essay as well.

=State Commodities=

Mississippi:
Define commodity: **a raw material or primary agricultural product that can be bought and sold, such as copper or coffee.** //**Resources:**// [|food, land, and people resources.pdf] [] [] [] []
 * 1) What is the name of your region? **Mississippi/ Delta States**
 * 2) What are the top commodities of the state you are researching? **Nuts, make up major broiler-production area of the country, these includes soybeans, cotton, rice, and sugarcane. Crude oil, sand and gravel, cement, clays (fuller’s earth, stone.**
 * 3) What landforms are part of the state? **Mississippi Plain (Delta) in the west, Gulf Coastal Plain in the east, Woodall Mountain, Coastal Wetlands, Mississippi River, The Pearl (the states longest indigenous river), Big Black and Yazoo. Enid, Grenada, and Sardis, Ross Barnett (lakes), Mississippi Sound (bay).**
 * 4) Describe the climate, population, largest cities, and any other factors that affect those that live or visit there. **It experiences short, mild winters, and long, warm, and humid summers. Average high 40’s (winter), high 80’s (summer). Population:** **2,938,618. Largest cites (by population): Jackson (184,256)****, Gulfport (71,127), Biloxi ( 50,644), Hattiesburg (44,779), Greenville (41,633), Meridian (39,968), Tupelo (34,211), Southaven (28,977), Vicksburg (26,407), Pascagoula (26,200).**
 * 5) What are the top 5 commodities in your region? Are any of these the top 5 commodities nationally? If so, which ones?
 * 6) What unique commodities are found in your region? Why are they unique?

=National Questions=


 * 1) Look at the US map. Why do you think the states are arranged into these 10 major farm production regions? **Answer:** that is the only place they can be grown.
 * 2) How do the commodities in your region compare with the commodities in other regions? Give examples. **Answer:** some have to be grown in warmer weathers than others such as the coconut and the peach down in the tropical areas such as Florida and Georgia and the corn and potatoes in Idaho and Kentucky..
 * 3) What are some of the similarities among the states in your region? What are the differences? **Answer:** we have some of the same commodities such as soybeans, rice, and cotton.
 * 4) What patterns do you see among the commodities across the country? **Answer:** There are a wide range of different things grown in the same regions as well as in the different ones.
 * 5) Which commodities are seen least often? Why do you think that is? What are the specific limiting factors? ( a limiting factor is something that prevents it from occurring more often). **Answer:** the tropical fruits and cattle because some places don't have the right temperatures and don't have enough grasslands for them.
 * 6) Which states grow oranges? **Answer:** Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina
 * 7) Which states grow cotton? **Answer:** Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Mew Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California
 * 8) Which states grow corn? **Answer:** Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio
 * 9) Which states have a lot of cattle? **Answer:** Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Mew Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming,
 * 10) Which states have greenhouses as their number one commodity? **Answer:** Alaska
 * 11) Why would Alaska have greenhouses as their number one commodity? **Answer:** the weather fluctuates a lot and they need a way to keep it stable so the plants grow.
 * 12) Alaska produces the least amount of agricultural products. Do you think this will remain so in the future? **Answer:** no because global warming will eventually get it where it stays warm and not up and down.
 * 13) What surprises you most about what is grown in Alaska? **Answer:** they produce dairy products considering the winters can be harsh and the cows need substantial weather.
 * 14) What surprises you most about what is grown in Louisiana? **Answer**: sugar cane.
 * 15) What surprises you most about what is grown in other states? **Answer:** that oranges can grow in South Carolina.
 * 16) Identify the top 5 commodities nationally. Count the number of states producing each of these commodities. List the commodity and number of states producing it below. Graph the number of states for each of these 5 commodities. Put number of states on the y axis and the commodity on the x axis. **Answer:**
 * 17) What are the top 5 states (top cash receipts)? In what ways are these states similar or different? **Answer:** Arizona, Nevada, California, Florida, Texas. They are all warm and don't have harsh winters. they have different things that make them this.
 * 18) What are the bottom 5 states (lowest cash receipts)? In what ways are these states similar or different? **Answer:** Delaware, Rhode Island, North Dakota, New Hampshire, and Maine. They are all on the eastern part of the united states. They have different commodities making them this.
 * 19) What factors would cause certain crops to be a leading commodity in one area and not another? **Answer:** the weather and amount of people living in the area/ cities taking up the land.
 * 20) What commodities do you predict will become less important in the future? Why? **Answer:** nuts and wheat because they don't have as many nutrients as the other things.

=Land Stand Paragraph:= I think that we should we should produce more agriculture because it is what most living things depend on to stay alive. We don't really produce enough for our people as it is and that makes me wonder if it is eventually going to get to where we don't produce any at all in the future. We need to keep state parks because they help provide shelter for the little animals that are running out of places to live because we keep taking their homes away but cutting down the forests. We need to limit the building of highways because in order to build most of them we need to clear out the area needed meaning we are cutting down more trees and limiting the homes for animals and also using up space that we could be using for agricultural means.

=Using plants as medicine= = = 1. How many U.S. prescription medicines come from plants? **Answer**: 25 - 50% of medicine comes from plants.
 * Go to the following website and answer the questions**: []

2. What disease did the sailors suffer from? **Answer**: scurvy a disease caused by vitamin c deficiency. 3. What did the cedar bark contain that saved the sailors? **Answer**: it contained the vitamin c they needed. 4. How long have people been using plants for medicinal purposes? **Answer**: for at least 5,000 years. 5. How many species of plants are endangered? **Answer**: 270,000 with 10% threatened to become extinct. 6. What is causing plants to become endangered? **Answer**: we are killing too many of them and not letting them grow back in time to reproduce. [] 7. Summarize the reasons why biodiversity is important. everything works together and if one thing goes missing then it makes the others depending on it become vulnerable and likely to become extinct as well.
 * Read the “How did the tree bark help the sick sailors?” section. Use it to answer questions 2 and 3.**
 * Go to the following website:**

Monkshood (Aconitum Napellus):
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 * Where the plant grows
 * Is it endangered?
 * What medicinal use does the plant have?
 * What part of the plant is used?
 * Who would benefit from products from this plant?