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Friday, July 26, 2019

Hurumanu - Recycling

Aim: To learn practical ways of recycling so that we can make our world a better                                                                       place.
Plastics: Recycling plastic help us to avoid the air pollution because we don't need to burn them, instead we can make a new thing from this things.

Paper: We can make new things from the paper and avoid cutting down the trees.
Steel: We don't need to burn a coal and avoid the carbon dioxide.
Video questions:

What is Zero Waste?
What can we do on the planet?
  1.   Instead of throw at the trash the broken appliances we can repair it so we can use it again.
  1.   Recycling the plastics from the trash to make new things and new products.
  1.   Instead of putting the organics on the trash we can put it on the soil       because they helping the soil t be more healthy for the plants.
  1.   Put the right rubbish at the right rubbish bin to avoid the carbon dioxide on the air.
  1. Make Plants.
  1. Have Zero Waste.
What is a carbon footprint?
How can you make your Carbon Footprint smaller?
                       ENERGY SAVING TIPS FILM
  1.  Turning off the lights when there is no one using it and turn it off when you are sleeping.  
  2.   Put the rubbish at the right rubbish bin so the thing that we can recycle, organics is on the same rubbish bin.
  3.  Reduce playing some video games to reduce the electricity that we are using every day.


How can we prevent climate change though recycling these products?

Cycling or walking: We don't need to use a car every time we need to buy something specially if the store is just to our house and the we can avoid the dirty smoke that coming from the cars.



One of the quickest ad cheapest ways a community can immediately reduce climate impact.


What do we need to recycle?
We need to recycle the plastics and the other rubbish that we can use to make new things or the things that we can't burn to avoid a pollution on the air and the water.

What does recycling do?
It reduce pollution, help to avoid habitat distraction, reduce the carbon dioxide and we can do new product using plastic bottles and any kind of rubbish that we can recycle.

How much of our rubbish is food scraps?
We have 42% of our food rubbish is food scraps.

What does soil do to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
It help us to reduce carbon dioxide.

What do we need to do?
We need to learn how to do recycling because recycling is have big contribute for us to avoid the climate change.



Name 4 of the tips.

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AT WHAT RATES DO DIFFERENT ITEMS DECOMPOSE?
MY INVESTIGATION.
Name: 
  • Aluminim can
  • Platic bottles
  • Milk carton
  • Plastic bag

  • Glass bottle

Choose 5 items from the list and investigate them. 
You need to answer three questions.y

1. How long do they take to decompose? 
  • Aluminum can take 200-400 years before it become decompose.
  • Plastic bottles takes 400-500 years before the decomposition
  • Milk carton takes almost 5 years before is decompose.
  • Plastic bag takes 10-20 years if decomposition.

  • Glass bottle takes 500 years but because it makes of glass there is a possibility that it can't be decompose.
2. What resource / fossil fuel are they made from?
  • Aluminum can are made by metal, iron and coal.
  • Plastic bottles have a fossil fuels like liquid petroleum gases, natural gas liquid and natural gas.
  • Milk carton are made of paperboard, coated by waterproof plastic.
  • Same as plastic bottles plastics bags is made of  liquid petroleum gases, natural gas liquid and natural gas.

  • Glass bottle is also made of natural resources like silica sand and limestone.
3. How is this resource recycled?
  • It then goes through a re-melt process and turns into molten aluminium, this removes the coatings and inks that may be present on the aluminium.
  • We can recycle them by melting the plastic bottles and make to anew products that we can sell to earn an money.
  • They are separated from other types of paper and sent out to paper mills, which turns them into new products. 
  •  They can be melted down and used to create new batches of plastic bags. 

  • Glass is sorted by colour and washed to remove any impurities. The glass will be then crushed and melted, and then be molded into new products.  
4. How does making this object contribute to climate change?
  • If we melt a aluminum can this is going to produce a different gases that will help the temperature become hotter.
  • Burn plastics bottle will cause of the air pollution so if we can recycled it we need to do it so we can use them and to avoid a air pollution.
  • They don't contribute to climate change. But the dairy cows and their manure produce gas emissions, which contribute to climate change.
  • Like the plastic bottles if we burn it it's the cause of the air pollution.

  • While recycling glass and get emitted during the production of glass. The materials can contribute to acidification.

Monday, July 22, 2019

Hurumanu - The Water Cycle

               AIM: TO LOOK AT THE WATER CYCLE AND HOW                         CLIMATE CHANGE IS AFFECTING IT.


Definition:

A green box with icons and white text. Text reads: Where is Earth's Water? 96.5 percent is in the oceans; 1.7 percent is in lakes, rivers, streams, and soil; 1.7 percent is in polar ice caps, glaciers, and permanent snow; 0.001 percent is in water vapor in Earth's atmosphere

Scientific words:


  • Evaporation. When water is heated by radiant energy it turns into water vapor.
  • Transpiration. Evaporation from plants.
  • Condensation. When water vapor cools, molecules join together and form clouds.
  • Precipitation. When clouds get heavy the waters falls as rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
  • Acidification: the action or process of making or becoming acidic.

We will be conducting an experiment that looks at the different ways that climate change is affecting the water cycle.
An illustration of the water cycle showing how water travels from rivers and streams to clouds to snow and back again
Material:

  1. Vivid Marker
  2. Plastic bag (ziplock)
  3. 1 cup of water and half a cup of water
  4. Food colouring
  5. Litmus paper
Steps:
  1.  Grab a plastic bag (ziplock) it should be partly large.
  2.  Grab a pen and start to draw the clouds, water, trees, and words.
  3.  Pour a cup of water into the bag not too much.
  4.  add at least two drops of food coloring the color of your choice but ideally blue
  5.  Stick the bag on a window where the sun comes through regularly.

THE WATER CYCLE EXPERIMENT

Bag 1: Normal Water cycle
Bag 2: Water cycle with CO2 added: like Oceans in climate change
Bag 3: Water cycle with ice added: like Antarctica in climate change


The Water Cycle: Bag 1
CO2 Water Cycle: Bag 2
Acid
Desert Water Cycle
Bag 3
Does it cycle?
YesYesYes
Amount of Water
222
Acidity
121

Key: Water and acidity amount: 1 = none 
2 = small drips
3 = large drips

Other comments:

  1. Water Cycle: Bag 1 - I had no acidity and the water cycled in bag 1.
  2. Water Cycle: Bag 2 - It has a small drips of acidity and small drips of water.
  3. Water Cycle: Bag 3 - It don't have any amount of acidity.

Conclusion: For our science hurumanu we did 3 bags of different water cycle, first water cycle that we did is just a water, second one we use a soda water and the last one we use a sand a small amount of water and the water cycle on bag 1 and bag 3 don't have any amount of acidity. Water cycle on bag 2 have a small drips of acidity. All of them have the same amount of water on their bag.





TODAY YOU WILL BE INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS THAT CLIMATE CHANGE HAS ON THE WATER CYCLE.

  1. Using your SOLO hexagons poster write a paragraph about the different aspects of climate change.
  2. Write about the following Climate Change concepts:
You can do these by powerpoint, embedding a movie , on your blog, on a doc or any other form of presentation. It is up to you.


ACIDIFICATION definition:

 Is refers to a reduction of the ocean over an extended period of time. these changes in ocean chemistry can affect the behavior of non calcifying organism as well.



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HOW does acidification affects climate change?

Ocean acidification refers to decreasing levels in the ocean which makes the sea more acidic. It takes long time to change in seawater because of the absorption of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

DEFORESTATION Definition:

Is the permanent destruction of forest, like cutting down the trees to use them for the other activity of human that needed to have a wood and some of the people that cutting the trees is selling them to make a money.


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HOW DOES DEFORESTATION AFFECT CLIMATE CHANGE?

Trees is helping us have a fresh air and to absorb the carbon dioxide but if we don't have a trees the temperature is going to get hotter and hotter and it will cause a bad effect to climate change because earth hate the atmosphere is it's to hot.

ICE CAP MELT: 

Ice melting is happening because of the overall increase by global temperature. It is where icecap melts because of climate change which causes the water to get warmer and when the sea level rises it is much easier for it to melt.


Picture:


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HOW DOES ICE CAP MELT AFFECT CLIMATE CHANGE?
Because icecaps are a dark color it absorbs more sunlight and also releases it in the air which helps climate change and that heat warms the air and melts the icecaps. 

WATER VAPOUR: 

 Water vapor is a gas it is caused by evaporation or boiling water but that is aqueous vapor water vapor is invisible.





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HOW DOES WATER VAPOUR AFFECT CLIMATE CHANGE?

When we dump greenhouse gas into the air, of course, you know it makes the air humid and warmer but because of water vapor which is a greenhouse gas itself helps the carbon dioxide which makes it worse.