Tuesday, March 1, 2011

mudslide

What are some natural factors causing mudslides in Guatemala?

The natural forces that cause the mudslides are earthquakes, hurricanes, and heavy rains that turn the soil into mud, making the soil loose.

What are some human factors causing mudslides in Guatemala?

Sense there are barley any tree it not helping they cut trees down for homes and fire wood that make room for the mudslides.

What is being done to help reduce mudslides and mudslide damage?

They are going to plant more trees like pine trees that will help soak up the water and not make it as easy to get through.

Monday, January 31, 2011

global temp. and CO2 graph




1. The horizontol scale is 1880 to 2000


2. 120 years


3. The left side is parts per million thats for the CO2 line. The righ side is degrees in celsius that for the temp.


4.The units are 20


5. -1.0 to 1.0 and 280 to 380


6. I could't find where it can from.

Friday, January 14, 2011

Questions

1 - What do you think the global average temperature is? I would say the it is somewhere in the 70's.


2 - People are often talking about "global warming." How much do you think the average global temperature has increased in the past 100 years? I think that it has increase by about maybe 10 or 12 degrease.
Do you think that this is a lot? yeah I think that its way to much


3 - What do you think is the hottest the Earth has ever been? I think the hottest 130. How about the coldest the Earth has ever been? The coldest -90. I said this becuase i think these are the the highest we could survive.


4 - Are you concerned about "global warming?" Why or why not? Yes I am because it's could kill all life on the planet and eventually it could destroy the world

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

questionn 4

4. In the grassland depending on the rain they can have a lot of grass but not a lot of trees but the soil is still fertile enough for farming. In the forest there is usually enough rain to support trees and the ground is still fertile enough for farming.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Journal Entry

To me the people that are at fult in the oil spill are the people that made the rig and the government for not making sure it was gonna work. They might have tried to stop it but not really it was poring galons and galons of oil into the water and all they did was have meetings to try to stop it with out really going out there and stopping it. So for a punishment I think that the government that owned the rig should pay for all the damages and be sued for a lot of money to make the place the same as it was. So I think that the government that made the oil rig should pay but also our government for letting them put it their so its really also our fault for demanding the need for oil so much so to me a lot of people are at fault here.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

what is coal and how is it made coal?

Coal is a black rock-like which is most of the time burned for heat it is made up of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and and some sulphur. How it is formed is dead plant material builds up and makes peat, which is the first step. Then it is caked together with other sedimentary rock to make lignite. Then after more build up and heat and pressure it makes coal.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Danté's peak

Scientifically Accurate:
1.Pyroclastic
2.The volcanic activity made the lake acidic.
3.They used a C.O.S.P.E.C


Scientifically unaccurate
1.They couldn't out drive a pyroclastic flow.
2.The acid burned through the boat really slow
3.They out ran a lava flow