JustineK

=toc= = = =About Me=

Hi I am Justine. Here are some of my likes and dislikes. Likes!! I like to go hunting and play basketball. On Junior Varsity I am number 34. On Varsity I am number 24. I am in band. I play the bass drum, mellophone, and french horn. I like to go mudding. I like to have fires during the summer. I like loud lifted Dodge trucks. I like to listen to music. I like lots of country. I like to go ice skating in Indiana. I like to sleep. I like Monster energy drinks. Hunter Kovach... he is my Favorite! :) I love him to death!!  Codey, Shawn, Eric, and Danny... They make me laugh.. : ) Dislikes!! I dislike people that think they are better than everyone else. I dislike people that make up excuses dealing with others. I dislike people that interfere with other people's relationships. I dislike how Hunter lives like 45 minutes away from me. I dislike homework. I dislike people that are happy all the time. I dislike when Cessna won't let me play the tamborine. I dislike when people constantly ask you whats wrong when you just want to be left alone. I dislike when you ask someone to keep stuff between the two of you and they don't. TRUST ISSUSE'S!!!! I dislike when people tell you they will do something and they don't or the other way around. I dislike when people won't even take the time to talk about stuff to try to work things out. I dislike when people won't talk to you for no reason. I dislike when I don't have my phone. I dislike when I don't get to see Hunter.



=Uses of the Allegheny Forrest=

question #1
 * hunting
 * fishing
 * hiking
 * campgrounds
 * boat launches
 * beaches
 * picnic areas
 * family time
 * first oil well in the world is 40 miles from the site

question #2
 * nature based land activities
 * day hiking
 * visit a wilderness or primitive area
 * visit a farm or agricultural setting
 * viewing/learning activities
 * view or photograph natural scenery
 * visit nature centers
 * sightseeing
 * developed-setting land activities
 * walking for pleasure
 * family gathering
 * picnicking
 * water based activities
 * swimming in an outdoor pool
 * swimming in lakes or streams
 * visit a beach
 * snow and ice based activities
 * snow and ice activities (any type)
 * downhill skiing
 * snowmobiling

=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.

New Delhi, India Phoenix, Arizona Suggestions to boosting the supplies
 * they fill up as much water as they can so that they have enough water to do them throughout the whole day.
 * they wake up to a megaphone saying that water will only be available for and hour or so.
 * they have sprinklers constantly going
 * they allowed irrigation to shift away from farms to the cities and such
 * improved methods to desalinate water
 * the article that I used was:
 * http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=facing-the-freshwater-crisis

=Types of Pollution Activity A=

Questions: 1. What places did you look at and what were the pollution problems there? 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. 3. Are these pollutants or problems point source or non-point source pollution problems?
 * Dubois--Dubois city STP-sewage systems
 * Conneaut Lake--Conneaut Lake Jt Mun Auth STP-sewage systems
 * Brackenridge-Allegheny Ludlum Corp--cold-rolled steel sheet, strip, and bars.
 * Elizabeth Town--Hersey Conewago Recreacampground LLC--hotels and motels
 * Philidelphia--Northeast Wpc Plt--Sewage systems
 * out of the five places i chose the most common type of pollution is sewage systems
 * sewage--the pollutants in the five locations in Pennsylvania that i have would use the sewage systems for point source because you could locate the plant or what not for where the plant is leaking the bad chemicals into the water area.
 * hotels and motels--the other ones however would be non point source pollution because if there are numerous hotels and motels for example you would just know that in general that is where the pollution comes from.
 * cold-rolled steel sheet, strip, and bars--The one in brackenridge could also be called industrial pollution because you are making the steel parts and the chemicals are going into the air from that.

=Types of Pollution Activity B=

Question 1 & 2:: Why is this a problem? How is human health, aquatic organisms, and other organisms affected?

Answer 1 & 2:: This is a problem because the animals that are found decomposed are filled with waste products. This shows that the animals are some how being exposed to these harmful items and are intaking them into their system. This is causing death. Human health is being affected because if someone was to kill an animal to eat but it has the harmful products in them then they will hopefully be smart enough to remove all the bad things. However if something has gotten into the blood stream or such then it would be hard for your average human to remove it. Aquatic organisms are being harmed because water is being polluted every day. Industrial plants are dumping toxic wastes into the water ways or just onto the ground and then it is being soaked up into the water. Either way the toxins are entering the water and eventually gettting to where there are fish or other underwater plants. The fish are in the water 100% of the time so they are not immune to bad chemicals entering their habitat. Other organisms are being affected because in the food chain everything leads back to one small item and somewhere along the lines one or more of the animals have been affected by pollution.

An example of nonpoint source pollution can be found here: Litter and debris in water ways

Trash island Question 3:: What steps do you think need to happen in order to stop this from becoming a larger problem?

Answer 3:: some steps i think we should take to make this become less of a problem would be to put up no littering signs in the areas where the animals "hang out" a lot or have people designated to pick up trash around the area to prevent this.

Question 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?

Answer 4:: correctly dispose of hazardous household products use nontoxic household products whenever possible. recycle and dispose of all trash properly conserve water

=Types of Pollution Activity C=

Question:: How does the polarity of water make it essential to living things?

Answer:: it has an equal distribution of charge. repelling nonpolar compounds.

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=Eutrophication= View this animation and determine what causes eutrophication and what is eutrophication? []

--What causes eutrophication? it is a natural process sometimes humans just emphasize the effect of it

--What is eutrophication? "It is the process in which high nutrient run-off from land can lead to low-oxygen water environments" excess nutrients from the fertilizer and such get into the water stream.

=Climate Change Questions= 1. Why do bubbles form in ice when ice is formed?? http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0370-1328/77/3/327 http://www.iop.org http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_an_ice_cube_have_air_bubbles_when_it_freezes http://wiki.answers.com
 * bubble concentration and size have been found to be related to the rate of freezing
 * air bubbles are gasses dissolved in the water.
 * in an ice cube bubbles are normally located in the center because that is the last place that freezes.

2.How long can tropical trees extend their roots ? http://catalpatreeseeds.com/tropical-trees-roots-explained http://catalpatreeseeds.com
 * the root structure under ground has a special strength due to living in such a warm wet climate.
 * stranglers grow roots down the host tree
 * with out a systematic root system these tropical trees would not survive

=Vocabulary--energy=


 * By-product - ** something produced in the making of something else, a side effect, a secondary result
 * Fossil fuel - ** a hydrocarbon deposit, such as petroleum, coal, or natural gas, derived from living matter of a previous geologic time and used for fuel
 * Petroleum - ** a thick, flammable, yellow-to-black mixture of gaseous, liquid, and solid hydrocarbons that occurs naturally beneath the earth’s surface can be separated into fractions including natural gas gasoline naphtha kerosene fuel and lubricating oils paraffin wax and asphalt and is used as raw material for a wide variety of derivative producs.
 * Crude oil - ** unrefined petroleum
 * Extraction - ** the act of extracting or the condition of being extracted. (taking something out of something else
 * Natural resource - ** a material source of wealth such as timber fresh water or a mineral deposit that occurs in a natural state and has economic value
 * Renewable resource - ** things on earth that can be renewed it is replaced by natural process at a rate faster than the rate of humans
 * Nonrenewable resource - ** a natural resource that cannot be reproduced re-grown regenerated or reused on a scale (when they are gone they are gone)
 * Bedrock - ** solid rock that underlies loose material such as soil clay or gravel
 * Hydraulic fracturing - ** a method in which sand water mixtures are forced into underground wells under pressure the pressure splits the petroleum bearing sandstone thereby allowing the oil to move towards the wells more freely
 * Hydrocarbons - ** chemical compounds that contain only carbon and hydrogen a vast number of different hydrocarbon compounds exist
 * Natural gas - ** a mixture of hydrocarbon gases that occurs with petroleum deposits principally methane together with varying quantities of ethane propane butane and other gases and is used as a furl and in the manufacture of organic compounds
 * Offshore drilling - ** the operation of oil wells on the continental shelf sometimes in water hundreds of feet deep
 * Fractional distillation - ** distillation to separate volatile chemical substances in which the products are collected in a series of separate fractions each with a higher boiling point than the previous fraction
 * Volatile - ** tending to violence explosive
 * Viscosity - ** a measure of the resistance of a fluid which is being deformed by either shear stress of tensional stress
 * Polymers - ** large molecule composed of repeating structural units typically connected by covalent chemical bonds.
 * Combustion - ** the sequence of exothermic chemical reactions between a fuel and an oxidant accompanied by the production of heat and conversion of chemical species
 * Tar sands - ** sands or sandstone deposits containing tarry, viscous, bituminous oil
 * Oil shale - ** an organic-rich fine grained sedimentary rock contains significant amounts of kerogen from which technology can be used to extract liquid hydrocarbons

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=Individual activity 2 cars..=

Dodge Cummins



Dodge Viper SRT-10



=Oil is more than energy=

How is oil production/distribution as well as political and economic issues related?
 * economic because its burning and doing harm

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

Write 5 statements that are concerns expressed in this article.
 * In 2008 the US consumApproximately 25 percent of [|ConocoPhillips]’ imports were from “dangerous or unstable” countries—116.7 million barrels—in 2008, contributing to its $52.7 billion profit.ed 23 percent of the worlds petroleum. 57% was imported
 * US holds less than 2% of the worlds oil reserves
 * burning oil that is imported from dangerous or unstable countries release 640.7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. this is the same as keeping more than 122.5 million passenger vehicles on the road.
 * 25% OF Conoco Phillips imports were from dangerous or unstable countries there were 116.7 million barrels in 2008 it contributed to a $52.7 billion profit.
 * passing clean energy and pollution reduction legislation will be affordable and even save consumers money while creating a net of 1.7 million jobs.

What do you think? Research more information if needed to back up your statements.
 * It seems to me that alot of our oil is being imported from other countries and such. If we trust these countries thats good ya but some things would be cheaper from our own country. we would just have the cost of finding the oil not paying for it to be shipped over.

=Petroleum=



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=Essay Topics=

1.unplug unused items in your rooms when the room is not in use. (like on weekends during lunch breaks holidays) 2.do not open your windows in the winter when it is to hot in your room have someone look at the heater. 3.keep your lights on only when they are in use dont leave them on if it is super bright out and the students can see fine without them also if you are working on the computers you do not need the lights on just use common sense with them ask students if they need them on or not.

3---if it is sunny out open the blinds and let the light in -if it is possible move the desks closer to the windows so that the students are closer to the windows the sun produces 999,000,999,346,000,000,000 watts of energy -the highest lightbulb wattage I found was 75000 and im pretty sure they dont use them in school ---florescent tube lights are typically the ones found in schools ---typical light bulbs are 60, 75, or 100 watts flourescent lights put out 50-100 lumens per watt which puts a 15 watt flourescent bulb equal to a 60 watt incandescent bulb ---

=Energy Essay=

There is a large light issue in our school. People of importance wonder why the electric bill is high. Well it is not only because this is a school but it is also because no one really seems to care. The amount of energy that is used but is unnecessary to use is just ridiculous. People need to consider different situations when using energy. One of these considerations should be the use of lights in the class rooms. In my Science for Living class we discussed energy problems and ways to fix them. Then we did an energy audit. During this audit we went around to different rooms in the school and surveyed the use of energy in those rooms. We found that in the majority of the rooms all of the lights were on even when it was only necessary to have half or none of them on. Teachers that have many windows in their rooms and those rooms face the direction of the sun still had their lights on. In that case I think the lights should be turned off or at least turn half of them off. Only days that it is raining would it then be slightly necessary to have all the lights on even just half would work for days like those. In most rooms teachers have all their lights on. This is only completely necessary if you are doing a lot of bookwork or teamwork. Examples of bookwork would be if you have to silently read a book it is better to have a well-lighted area so that you don’t strain your eyes. Also it would be appropriate if you have to do a lot of writing. An example of teamwork would be if you are in a science class doing a lab you would need the area to be well lit so that you can see what you are doing. Some rooms keep half of them off. Some times you would only need half would be when you are really not doing any book or writing work. If the teacher is just talking and you are occasionally looking at a book or an example then you would only need half of them on. Another example would be if you are typing a paper on your computer you could get along fine only using half of the lights to see the paper because your computer is giving off some light as well. You could also keep all the lights off. When you are doing certain things there is no need to have on all of the lights. On days that it is bright outside and there are windows in the room you would not need to have the lights on. If you are just doing computer work you could leave the lights off because the computer screen would give off enough light for you to see just fine. When you are just having a study hall there would be no need to have the lights on at all because most of the time students don’t use that time constructively. Some more efficient ways to save energy would be to change the bulbs. This can help with money and energy. Energy Star light bulbs use 75 percent less energy than regular bulbs. They also last 10 times longer. Using this type of light bulb will save about $30 during the time that it worked. [] Something that people never think of would be that you use more energy every time you turn your lights on and off. Each time you flip the switch the operating time of the bulb goes down. Incandescent lights are to be turned off when not needed or in use. For fluorescent lights it is usually better to just leave the lights on. I found this to be very interesting because I always thought that if you turned off the lights it saved energy not wasted. So this is a new factor to consider. [] Only turn your lights off if you will be out the room for 15 minutes or more. It will be cheaper than turning them off then back on all the time. [] Next time you go to turn the lights on think about what you are going to be doing. Ask yourself if you really need all the lights, half the lights, or any of the lights on. Also ask what will you be doing that day and does it require good lighting or does it even matter. Just think if you can make a difference and save energy.

=Washington land proj.=

· [] 1.what is the name of your region? · Pacific northwestern · [] 2. what are the top commodities of the state you are researching? · Apple · Milk · Wheat · Cattle & calves · Potatoes · Hay · Forest · Farm nursery & greenhouse products · sweet cherries · grapes · all pears · onions · hops · barley · eggs · chickens & broilers · asparagus · sweet corn · all mint oil · corn, grain · corn, silage · Christmas trees · Aquaculture · Red · Raspberries · Sugarbeets · Green peas · Processing · Carrots, all · Dry edible peas · Peaches · Dry edible beans · Mushrooms · Lentils · Kentucky · Bluegrass · Seed · Alfalfa seed · Cranberries · Blueberries · Hogs & pigs · Wrinkled seed peas · Trout · Apricots · Strawberries · lettuce · [] 3. What landforms are part of the state? · Praries · Mountains · Lowlands · Bays · Plains · Coastal mountain range · Willapa hills · Puget sound lowlands · Strait of Juan de Fuca · Cascades · Mt. Rainer · Mt. Adams · Mt. Baker · Glacier peak · Mt. St. Helens · Columbia plateau · Rocky mountains · Columbia river · Okanogan river · Snake river · Baker lake · Chelan lake · Ross lake · [] 4. describe the climate, population, largest cities, and any other factors that affect those that live or visit there. · Climate: due to the cascade mountains there are two different climates. The western third has a temperate rain forest climate, the eastern two thirds is warmer and drier · Population: 2008--- 6,549,224 · Largest cities: Seattle, Olymipa, Spokane, Yaklma, Walla Walla · Other: · [] · [] 5. what are the top 5 commodities in you region? Are any of these the top 5 commodities nationally? If so which ones? · Milk · Wheat · Cattle · Potatoes · Grass seeds Nationally · Milk · Grass seeds · Wheat · cattle 6. what unique commodities are found in your region? Why are they unique? · Dungeness crab. It is not found in every area due to its habitat.
 * Define commodity**—an economic good as a product of agriculture or mining, an article of commerce especially when delivered for shipment, a mass- produced unspecialized product

=Land Stand Survey Paragraph=

Land owners including farmers should have the right to sell their land in any way they choose.

If a person owns a portion of land then they should have all rights to that land. If the government wishes to buy part of their land for building purposes they should be able to say no. I understand that this would cause a lot of trouble when it comes to new road ways or new stores but by right that individual owns the land so they have a say in it too. On roadways the state already owns 10 feet from the edge of the road. I understand regardless of your property line you can not fight that 10 feet. The survey results show that I am not alone on strongly agreeing with this matter. 35 out of 62 people participating in this survey also strongly agree. 26 out of 62 people agree and out of those 62 people only 1 person disagrees

= Nightshade, //Atropa belladonna// =

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=Bangladesh=

Facts: 1. Area (in square kilometers) 2. Total population 3. Major cities and their populations 4. Per capita income 5. Percentage of people undernourished 6. Natural resources 7. Major agricultural products 8. Soil type 9. Literacy rate 10. Description of its climate (include temperature and precipitation patterns)
 * 143,998 sq km
 * https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bg.html#top
 * 156,050,883 (July 2009 est.)
 * https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bg.html#top
 * Dhaka- 6,482,877
 * Chittagong- 2,202,637
 * Khulna- 884,445
 * Rajshahi- 388,811
 * Tongi- 283,099
 * Narayanganj- 241,393
 * Rangpur- 241,310
 * Mymensingh- 227,201
 * Barisal- 192,810
 * Jessore- 176,655
 * Comilla- 1665,519
 * Dinajpur- 157,914
 * Bogra- 154,807
 * Nawabganj- 152,223
 * http://www.citypopulation.de/Bangladesh-Mun.html
 * $1,600 (2009 est.)
 * $1,500 (2008 est.)
 * $1,400 (2007 est.)
 * https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bg.html#top
 * 30.2% in 2001
 * http://globalis.gvu.unu.edu/indicator_detail.cfm?IndicatorID=55&Country=BD
 * natural gas
 * oil
 * https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bg.html#top
 * rice
 * jute
 * tea
 * wheat
 * sugarcane
 * potatoes
 * tobacco
 * pulses
 * oilseeds
 * spices
 * fruit
 * beef
 * milk
 * poultry
 * https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bg.html#top
 * Flood Plain Soils
 * Brown Hill Soils
 * Terrace Soils.
 * http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/ad104e/AD104E03.htm
 * total population: 47.9%
 * male: 54%
 * female: 41.4% (2001 Census)
 * https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bg.html#top
 * Main seasons
 * Winter: November-February
 * Summer: March-June
 * Monsoon: July-October
 * Maximum temperature: 34°C.
 * Minimum Temperature: 8°C.
 * Lowest amount of rainfall: 47"
 * Highest amount of rainfall: 136"
 * http://www.betelco.com/bd/bdsintro/bdsintro.html

Analysis:

1. Summarize why hunger is such a problem in that country. Explore political, environmental, and social issues that are involved in the hunger problem, and describe at least two issues that have caused the hunger problem for that country. 2. Summarize what efforts are being made to reduce the occurrence of hunger. 3. Research an organization that is providing aid to your country, and include a description of its work in your summary.
 * The Hunger Project
 * it has been active in bangladesh since 1990
 * http://www.thp.org/bangladesh/
 * http://www.thp.org/bangladesh/

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