Morgan+T

=toc= = About Me = Hello. (: I'm Morgan. I like to hang out with my best friends and sleep. I love my besties Angie, Sonya, and Kaylee. (: I have a dog named Oreo, he is a black toy poodle. I have an older brother, Kyle. My favorite colors are Blue, Limegreen, and Purple. (: Mkay, bye. (:



toc = Uses of the Allegheny Forest =

-Wildfires, floods, and erosions were a threat because of such heavy mining and logging. -Resources found or produced there are Oil, Gas, coal and wood. -Using to much of the resources and cutting down trees are ecomomic issues.

= Recreational Activities = Nature-based land activities - Day hiking(35.4%), visit a wilderness or primitive area(34.2%), and Visit a farm or agricultural setting(32.3%). Viewing/Learning activities - View/photograph natural scenery(66.7%), visit nature centers(60.0%), Sightseeing(57.8%) Developed-Setting Land Activities - Walking for Pleasure(87.2%), Family Gathering(77.4%), Picnicking(65.5%). Water-based activities - Swimming in an outdoor pool(50.0%), Swimming in lakes and streams(49.2%), Visit a beach(47.0%) Snow/Ice-based activities - Snow/ice activities (any type)(38.0%), Downhill Skiing(9.8%), Snowmobiling(8.9%) = Types of pollution: Activity A. = 1. What place did you look at and what were the pollution problems there? Pennsylvania - Sewage problems. West Virginia - Sewage systems. North Carolina - Sewage problems. Kentucky - Sewage systems. New Jersey - Pharmaceutical Preparations, Industrial Inorganic Chemicals, NEC, Sewage systems. Delaware - Industrial Inorganic Chemicals, NEC

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. -Sewag problems are common within our group.

3. Are these pollutants or problems point source or non-point source pollution problems? Point source.

= Activity B: = 1. Why is pollution a problem? How did it happen? -It's a problem because the birds are dying. It happened because of people littering.

2. How is human health, aquatic organisms, and other organisms affected? Give an example of organisms affected and the problems it is causing. -Other animals could eat the dead birds and they would get sick, and they could get other animals sick.

3. What steps do you think need to happen in order to stop this from becoming a larger problem? -They need to stop people from littering.

4. What should people do to reduce water pollution that affects all of our water? -Stop littering.

= Glaciers = -A glacier is a perennial mass of ice which moves over land.

Why do glaciers melt? -Every glacier melts because of the surrounding temperature. When snow falls during the cold seasons, it gets compressed into ice with further snowing. When the temperature does get warmer the outer layers of snow or partly formed ice begin melting and flowing down into streams and rivers.

Why does water make tunnels through ice? -When it gets warmer then usual the outer layers of snow or partly formed ice melt and the melted snow begins flowing down into streams and rivers. The melted snow provides fresh and pure drinking water, water for agriculture, and in many nations this flow of water is converted into electricity without polluting the atmosphere.

Sources: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/how-do-glaciers-melt.html

=Individual Activity.=

= Oil is more than energy. =

How is oil production/distribution as well as political and economic issues related? -Oil production and distribution causes political and economic issues because the costs get higher and we don't have as much each day. Oil is bad for the environment when its burned. View this resource to see where we get our oil: [|http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/01/oil_imports_security.html.] -From foreign countries.  Write 5 statements that are concerns expressed in this article. -The United States is spending about one billion dollars on Oil everyday. -Causes global warming. -Burning oil is a major driver of climate change. -Our reliance on oil from Algeria, Chad, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Syria could have serious implications for our national security, economy, and environment. -Climate Change could threaten to destabilize governments, intensify terrorist actions, and displace millions of people, due to frequent and severe natural disasters, higher incidences of diseases such as malaria, rising sea levels, and food and water shortages.

= Products from Petroleum. =



= Essay Topics. = 1. You don't need so many lights on all the time. -You can keep only half the lights on in classrooms. -You don't really need all the lights in the hallway. -In the bathrooms you don't have to have the lights on all the time. 2. Keeping all the things your not using unplugged. 3. Fixing the heaters.

= Word Document. = I think that schools should cut down on the use of lights. In classrooms they should only have half the lights on. In the halls they should have either half the lights or no lights and in the bathrooms they should have motion-censored lights, the school would save a lot of energy just by doing this. The classrooms don’t always need all the lights on. Most of the time we are just working with computers and we don’t need lights on to do that. And if we aren’t working with computers, the windows should let in enough light to work. If the windows don’t let in enough light then the teachers could just turn half the lights on. Most of the teachers in this school keep all the lights on in their classrooms. In the halls you don’t really need light. The windows let in enough light since all the kids are doing is walking. The classrooms also let light out into the hall, so they shouldn’t even need to keep any of the hall lights on. If we really need the lights in the hall they could just turn half of them on. All the hallway lights are on all the time. The lights in the bathroom don’t always need to be on. People aren’t in the bathroom every second of everyday. The lights are on all day everyday in every bathroom in this school. I think that the school should get motion-censored lights in the bathroom. They would save so much more energy if they got them. Some schools did get them, like Harvard. They saved more energy by using the motion-censored lights in their bathrooms. So, by turning off half of the lights in classrooms off, turning all or half of the hallway lights off and by using motion-censored lights in the bathrooms we could save quite a bit of energy. It would be pretty easy to do, and it would save money. Right now, most of the lights in the school are always on.


 * //__Sources:__//** http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/articles/2008/09/29/campuses_adjust_to_being_green/

= Land Stand Survey. = I think that we should keep the state parks and land because too much of it is getting destroyed. Pretty soon there will be no more open land. Everything will just be city. There wont be anywhere for animals to live. We should set aside land for wildlife to live on. Three out of sixty-three disagree with that. Twenty-nine agree with it. And thirty-one strongly agree. So I think that we should definitely set aside at least a little bit of land.

= American Ginseng. =

The plant grows in eastern North America and also in China. It is endangered. It was traditionally used to treat headaches, fever, indigestion, and infertility. It can also help treat type 2 diabetes because it lowers blood sugar levels. It also helps with the cold, flu, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. They use the roots of the plant for medicine. Anyone who has the symptoms listed above would benefit from this plant.

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