If you’re ready for some advanced cellular biology, here’s a link to the same video with a descriptive narrative and no music. (Life just seems more interesting when set to music)
September 6, 2006
Pollution from eastern China often blows out over the Pacific Ocean. Sometimes, it reaches halfway around the world to North America. NASA Earth Observatory.
New research shows that more and more pollution from China is blowing across the Pacific Ocean and reaching the coast of North America. One-third of the pollution is from dust kicked up by gusty winds due to drought and deforestation. The rest is soot, sulfur, and small amounts of metals from the burning of fossil fuels by industry in eastern China.
According to estimates from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), about 25 percent of the pollution over Los Angeles and other California cities starts out in China. As industry grows in China, the total could soon reach one-third of all of California’s pollution. Research stations in Oregon and Washington show the same pattern. Large amounts of ozone, carbon monoxide, mercury, and pollutants have been traced to China.
The increased pollution is one of many environmental problems spawned by China’s huge increase in industry. …more…
I want to thank Mr. Yost who filled in for me today, enabling me to attend teacher development sessions. Yes, teachers still go to school and learn new things to make them better at their profession. Education is a never ending, life long process. In addition to the formal training session run by Principal Lucas, I was able to observe two other science teachers here at Lakeview. Afterwards we discussed various strategies to improve the effectiveness of our classes.
So while I was training today you were taking a test on weather. I hope everyone did well and that our review yesterday was helpful. If you finished your test early enough you began our unit on environmental science by reading about Elroy Masters who works for the BLM. Elroy’s job is to protect the desert wildlife habitat along the Colorado River.
Internet Extra Credit:
Florida has a number of unique wildlife habitats that are currently being protected. Identify one of these areas and write a paper about it. You determine the length of the paper needed to effectively convey the following information:
1) The name of the area
2) Draw a map showing where it is located
3) Write a description of the type of habitat, include major biotic and abiotic factors, include pictures or drawings if possible
4) Tell why it is important to protect this area
5) Explain what threats the area faces
6) Tell who (what agency) is responsible for protecting the habitat
7) List all the sources you used to find this information
Tell us where we can find more information
This is a major extra credit project equivalent to a full multi-day class lab, 100 points. This project may be turned in anytime between now and the end of the second marking period. Projects must be neat, well written and accurate. You may use short direct quotes however they must be in quotation marks and the sources credited. The majority of the project must be in your own words, do not plagiarize.