Monday, April 21, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Why Should We Care If the Glaciers Are Melting.
It’s Christmas vacation , and again I’m m in Florida. My family took our drive down to South Beach to have lunch at our favorite Cuban restaurant, buy me some clothes at Quicksilver, then hang out at the beach.
Over the years of growing up, I notice the beach getting smaller, as the sea level rose. It seemed so gradual, I hardly noticed. But then the changes started happening quicker. We were warned about the effects of global warming, particularly about how the melting land ice would raise sea levels,
I remember when I was 11 and 12 years old parking on the street, putting money in the meters, as we pulled into the 12th Street parking garage, three miles west of Collins Ave.
The dive shop was crowded with tourists renting wet suits and regulators. I dressed quickly, excited about our tour of the old Lowes hotel. I remember when I went there to fence. If I fenced here nobody would beat or loose against me. Fencing masks did NOT have breathalyzers.
The Lowes lobby was incredible, but there were water spiders in the chandelier. The swimming pool was now part of the biggest swimming area in the world. Their Ballroom was the chamber that held the breathalyzers. The canopies of all the pre-Atlantis era were now attached to the surface and were the easiest way in.
Quicksilver quickly focused on snowboarding ever since the pre-Atlantis era
We should have seen the signs. The glaciers melting. It wasn’t the water-ice that was bad, it was the Land Ice.
I am Lane Lubell, I am 19 years old, and this is what’s named after Atlantis. This is the atlantian era
Over the years of growing up, I notice the beach getting smaller, as the sea level rose. It seemed so gradual, I hardly noticed. But then the changes started happening quicker. We were warned about the effects of global warming, particularly about how the melting land ice would raise sea levels,
I remember when I was 11 and 12 years old parking on the street, putting money in the meters, as we pulled into the 12th Street parking garage, three miles west of Collins Ave.
The dive shop was crowded with tourists renting wet suits and regulators. I dressed quickly, excited about our tour of the old Lowes hotel. I remember when I went there to fence. If I fenced here nobody would beat or loose against me. Fencing masks did NOT have breathalyzers.
The Lowes lobby was incredible, but there were water spiders in the chandelier. The swimming pool was now part of the biggest swimming area in the world. Their Ballroom was the chamber that held the breathalyzers. The canopies of all the pre-Atlantis era were now attached to the surface and were the easiest way in.
Quicksilver quickly focused on snowboarding ever since the pre-Atlantis era
We should have seen the signs. The glaciers melting. It wasn’t the water-ice that was bad, it was the Land Ice.
I am Lane Lubell, I am 19 years old, and this is what’s named after Atlantis. This is the atlantian era
Alaska Geography Worksheet Answers
1. In this area summer heating produces average maximum temperatures in the upper 70’s with extreme readings in the 90’s.
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/narratives/ALASKA.htm
2. On June 21st, the North Pole is tilted towards the sun. As the earth rotates on it’s axis, the sun appears to move in a low circle in the sky. It only dips below the horizon for a few short hours. Although, the sun is never showing at midnight in Denali, you would have to go further north above the Arctic Circle for that, it does stay light out for 21 hours. When the sun sinks below the horizon, it does not get really dark but just stays a gray dusk clled twilight
3. They are:
a. Pacific Mountain System – Southern Coast and String of Islands
b. Rocky Mountain System -North of the Central Uplands and Lowlands area (includes Brooks Range and the Brooks Range foothills)
c. Central Uplands and Lowlands - Between the Pacific Mountain System in the south and the Brooks Range of the Rocky Mountain System in the north
d. Arctic Coastal Plain: The northernmost geographic area, north of the Rocky Mountain System and slopes gradually toward the Arctic Ocean.
http://www.netstate.com/states/geography/ak_geography.htm
4. they are
a. the pacific ocean
b. arctic ocean
c. the gulf of Alaska
5. plate tectonics
6. There are an estimated 100,000 glaciers in the State
http://www.susanmilne.com/glacier/glacier.htm
7. A glacier is a large, slow moving river of ice, formed from compacted layers of snow, that slowly deforms and flows in response to gravity.
8. at a point in the glaciers’ time it gets too heavy. At that point in time it looses
9. The rate of melting exceeds the new snow accumulating during the winter months. Many scientist believe this is a product of global warming.
10. the blue is caused by the snow’s absorption of red and yellow light
11. the Dena’ina Mountain Range
12. The taiga is found throughout the high northern latitudes, between the tundra, and the steppes.
13. The tundra replaces the taiga when you have passed the northern tree line
14. what helps them survive in this harsh environment are:
a. warm, fur hides
b. heat-efficient body shape
c. growth and reproduction
d. camouflage
e. hibernation
f. using snow as insulation
15. 1500
16. cold, partly in a permafrost
17. they are:
a. the Black tailed dear
b. Alaskan moose “the Godzilla of the deer family
c. Kodiak deer
d. Raspberry deer
18. there is estimated to be 7,000-11,200 in alaska and over 5,000 in the lower 48 states. Around the world there are estimated to be around 200,000 in 57 countries, compared to up to 2 million in earlier times
19. there are the:
a. stellar sea lion
b. rough eye rock fish
c. halibut
d. arrow-tooth flounder
e. pacific cod
20. There are the:
a. Beluga whale
b. Grey whale
c. Harbor porpoise
d. North pacific right whale
http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/narratives/ALASKA.htm
2. On June 21st, the North Pole is tilted towards the sun. As the earth rotates on it’s axis, the sun appears to move in a low circle in the sky. It only dips below the horizon for a few short hours. Although, the sun is never showing at midnight in Denali, you would have to go further north above the Arctic Circle for that, it does stay light out for 21 hours. When the sun sinks below the horizon, it does not get really dark but just stays a gray dusk clled twilight
3. They are:
a. Pacific Mountain System – Southern Coast and String of Islands
b. Rocky Mountain System -North of the Central Uplands and Lowlands area (includes Brooks Range and the Brooks Range foothills)
c. Central Uplands and Lowlands - Between the Pacific Mountain System in the south and the Brooks Range of the Rocky Mountain System in the north
d. Arctic Coastal Plain: The northernmost geographic area, north of the Rocky Mountain System and slopes gradually toward the Arctic Ocean.
http://www.netstate.com/states/geography/ak_geography.htm
4. they are
a. the pacific ocean
b. arctic ocean
c. the gulf of Alaska
5. plate tectonics
6. There are an estimated 100,000 glaciers in the State
http://www.susanmilne.com/glacier/glacier.htm
7. A glacier is a large, slow moving river of ice, formed from compacted layers of snow, that slowly deforms and flows in response to gravity.
8. at a point in the glaciers’ time it gets too heavy. At that point in time it looses
9. The rate of melting exceeds the new snow accumulating during the winter months. Many scientist believe this is a product of global warming.
10. the blue is caused by the snow’s absorption of red and yellow light
11. the Dena’ina Mountain Range
12. The taiga is found throughout the high northern latitudes, between the tundra, and the steppes.
13. The tundra replaces the taiga when you have passed the northern tree line
14. what helps them survive in this harsh environment are:
a. warm, fur hides
b. heat-efficient body shape
c. growth and reproduction
d. camouflage
e. hibernation
f. using snow as insulation
15. 1500
16. cold, partly in a permafrost
17. they are:
a. the Black tailed dear
b. Alaskan moose “the Godzilla of the deer family
c. Kodiak deer
d. Raspberry deer
18. there is estimated to be 7,000-11,200 in alaska and over 5,000 in the lower 48 states. Around the world there are estimated to be around 200,000 in 57 countries, compared to up to 2 million in earlier times
19. there are the:
a. stellar sea lion
b. rough eye rock fish
c. halibut
d. arrow-tooth flounder
e. pacific cod
20. There are the:
a. Beluga whale
b. Grey whale
c. Harbor porpoise
d. North pacific right whale
Civics Worksheet
People to People
Civics Worksheet
1. George W. Bush
2. Dick Cheney
3. Republican Party
4. Lower Taxes, Big Business, Smaller Government
5. Condoleezza Rice
6. The Secretary of State, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of Senate, is the President’s chief foreign affairs adviser. The Secretary carries out the President’s foreign policies through the State Department and the Foreign Service of the United States.
7. Senator Barrack Obama and Richard J Durbin
8. Rahm Emanuel
9. Our Senator, Barack Obama running for President and the 2016 Olympic Bid
10. Governor Rod Blagojevich
11. Chicago offers an urban lifestyle similar to that of NYC.
It is filled with museums, galleries, awesome architecture, parks, and also has a beach right in ethe City.
12. Watching the British attacking Fort McHenry, he must have been thinking that America would prevail against the British, the 3rd line is about the American flag and the its designer. He was also thinking about how bad of a fight it had been. The bombs, fireworks, and that hat we won he was free.
13. it was a dark day 9/11. this song strains all of the good in the world in America from the ramparts we watch
14. I think that it is not a great decision, however it makes the song flow a great deal better.
Civics Worksheet
1. George W. Bush
2. Dick Cheney
3. Republican Party
4. Lower Taxes, Big Business, Smaller Government
5. Condoleezza Rice
6. The Secretary of State, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of Senate, is the President’s chief foreign affairs adviser. The Secretary carries out the President’s foreign policies through the State Department and the Foreign Service of the United States.
7. Senator Barrack Obama and Richard J Durbin
8. Rahm Emanuel
9. Our Senator, Barack Obama running for President and the 2016 Olympic Bid
10. Governor Rod Blagojevich
11. Chicago offers an urban lifestyle similar to that of NYC.
It is filled with museums, galleries, awesome architecture, parks, and also has a beach right in ethe City.
12. Watching the British attacking Fort McHenry, he must have been thinking that America would prevail against the British, the 3rd line is about the American flag and the its designer. He was also thinking about how bad of a fight it had been. The bombs, fireworks, and that hat we won he was free.
13. it was a dark day 9/11. this song strains all of the good in the world in America from the ramparts we watch
14. I think that it is not a great decision, however it makes the song flow a great deal better.
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