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=Water Shortages= =toc= 1. ship water to other areas 2. reduce amount of water used

=**Water Pollution Activity A**= 1. I looked at places from Pennslyvania, New York, Ohio, Texas, Alabama, and Alaska. In most of the states the problems are effluent and some of the others are compliance schedule violation.

2. In most of the rural areas the pollution is from sewage and drainage that's not hooked up. In the city areas most pollution comes from the drainage from waste water factories.

3. These pollutants are point source pollution problems.

=Climate change research=

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1. A difference of 6 degrees on earth would be devastating, most scientists if it would happen would call it doomsday scenario. They say that at 6 higher the oceans would become marine wastelands and the deserts would expand.

2. El ninos are not related to global warming, because evidence suggest that el nino has been present for million of years. However in the past recent decades when el nino occurs they have been more intense than before.

3. The temperatures have increased .74 degrees since the 19th century. The warming has not occured everywhere in the U.S. In southeastern U.S. and parts of north atlantic have slightly cooled. The warmth has occured more over North America and Euraisa. Eight of the warmest years recored have been since 2001 and the 10 warmest year have all been recorded since 1995.

=Individual Project=

Honda Accord – The engine in the Honda accord varies from a 166 hp V6 to a 2.5 175 hp. The mpg for this car is 21 for city and 31 for highways. The car weighs 3125 pounds. The cars doesn’t weight that much and so its gets good gas mileage on the highway.

Civic Hybrid – The hybrid engine runs on electric and gas but it use very little gas to do anything. It gets 40 mpg in the city and 45 on the highway. The weight of the car is 2877 pounds. This car runs mostly of electric and therefore it gets high gas mileage on the highway and in the city.

=Oil= U.S. trade deficit is widening our trade deficit. We spend $1 billion a day overseas instead of investing the funds over here. Burning oil that exacerbates global warming. Last year we imported form 1o dangerous or unstable countries. This is a big threat to our national security.

How is oil production/distribution as well as political and economic issues related? Our country gets its oil from countries that are unstable and they spend $1 billion a day to bring oil over to our country. The oil is helping raise global warming and we are trying to stop it.

=Petroleum=

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=Essay Topics=

1. Energy efficient lights 2. Wind or Solar? 3. Nuclear Energy

=Energy Efficient Lights=

Energy Efficient Lights

The problem in the school that I have identified is that we waste more energy than that is needed. The teachers leave lights on when there is no one is in the room. The auditorium has 120 lights, its one of the least use rooms in the school, however the lights are always left on. I think there is a reasonable solution for solving this problem and that to buy energy efficient lights for all rooms. It says that if one person in every house would replace one bulb with an energy efficient light in one year it would save about $700 million in annual energy costs. It would also prevent 9 billion pounds of green house gases emissions.

Whenever you enter most rooms all the lights are on and there is no one actually in the room, so we are burning unnecessary energy and wasting money to pay for the bills. Most teachers leave their laptops plugged in and leave the room. I think that because the school has issued the student’s computer that the teachers should upgrade everything to use the computers. While doing this you save money on the electric bill because teachers are not using the lights as much. Also if a teacher can’t upgrade everything to a computer than if you replace the lights your still saving money by cutting down on light use and green house emissions. The lights that you would replace the old ones with use 75% less energy than a regular light bulb and it also last about ten times as long.

=Finished Essay=

Joey Pisano

Energy Efficient Lights

The problem in the school that I have identified is that we waste more energy than that is needed. The teachers leave lights on when there is no one is in the room. The auditorium has 120 lights, its one of the least use rooms in the school, however the lights are always left on. I think there is a reasonable solution for solving this problem and that’s to buy energy efficient lights for all rooms. Sources say that if one person in every house would replace one bulb with an energy efficient light, in one year it would save about $700 million in annual energy costs. It would also prevent 9 billion pounds of greenhouse gas emissions.

Whenever you enter most rooms all the lights are on and there is no one actually in the room, so we are burning unnecessary energy and wasting money to pay for the bills. Most teachers leave their laptops plugged in and leave the room. I think that because the school has issued the student’s computer that the teachers should upgrade everything to use the computers. While doing this you save money on the electric bill because teachers are not using the lights as much. Also if a teacher can’t upgrade everything to a computer than if you replace the lights your still saving money by cutting down on light use and green house emissions. The lights that you would replace the old ones with use 75% less energy than a regular light bulb and it also last about ten times as long.

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= State Commodities = Connecticut 1. Commodity - a product of agriculture or mining. 2. Northeast 3. The Connecticut River, The Twin Lakes, and the Berkshires. Other mountains in Connecticut are the Bear Mountains, Canaan Mountains and the Haystack Mountains. 4. Connecticut's climate is moderate. In the winter the average temperature is slightly below freezing. In the summer it's humid and hot. There are only about 10 days a year, which the temperature is above 90° F and only about 3 days a year. 44-48 inches of rain. Its population is 3,271,800. There are many places in Connecticut people like to visit. Such as, the Peabody Museum, Yale University's Art Gallery, and the Mark Twain House. In New Haven people like to go to the Mystic Seaport, Mystic Marine Life Aqarium, and the Barnum Museum. In Bridgeport some popular places are The Gillete Castle, Nautilus Memorial, and Groton, where you can see the first nuclear-powered submarine. Also, the Foxwards Casino and the Memorial Library at Yale University. 5. Nursery stock, Christmas trees, tobacco, and vegetables such as, mushrooms, sweet corn and fruit such as apples. Connecticut has many natural resources such as, timber, lumber, sand, gravel, clay, stone, and soils. Also Minerals and iron. Manufactures many important things such as, aircraft engines and parts, submarines, helicopters, instruments, and machinery, computer equipment, electrical equipment, electronics, medical instruments and pharmaceuticals. 6. Milk, maple syrup, Christmas trees

=National Questions= Joey Pisano

National Questions 1. In each area they produce something different than the other, such like Connecticut may be able to provide Christmas trees rather than Nevada. 2. In Connecticut they produce Christmas trees and fruit, and grain crops like wheat and hay dominate places like Nevada. 3. Many of the states in my region also produce maple syrup but in other states they have broiler farming. 4. The farther to the west you go the more crops like wheat and corn. 5. Greenhouse/nursery, this is not used often because its not necessary for most states to the west and in other areas. 6. California, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming 7. Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Hawaii, California, Oregon, Washington 8. Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio 9. Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas 10. Hawaii, Arkansas. 11. Its easier for them to use the greenhouse water to help kill weeds that kill crops, it also won’t affect the crops that are planted. 12. Hawaii is growing but they I think that they won’t be able to keep up with states like Texas. 13. I wouldn’t think that sugar cane would be grown there considering that it is such a tropical place. 14. Louisiana is far away from Alaska but yet the both grown sugar cane. 15. I wouldn’t think that Montana would grow any citrus fruits like oranges because they have such cold weather. 16. Graph 17. California, Texas, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois. They are mostly to the South and they have more land to be able to grow crops and raise cattle. 18. Alaska, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Nevada, West Virginia, Massachusetts. They have less land and can’t produce as much as states to the west. 19. The climate, fertilizer they use, elevation, type of soil. 20. Christmas trees because now everyone is using artificial trees they won’t sell as many, and also greenhouse/nursery, its not that common now and they use different things to help kill weeds.

=Land Stand=

I think that the land that is owned by people should be able to be sold or used in any way that the owner wants to use it. If there is land that is not in use near a road or other major area, the state could buy it and make wider roads fix roads that need fixed. The government doesn’t allow you to sell your own land, but if you are paying taxes then you should be able to sell it in any way that you want.

=Rwanda=

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