Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Mass movements!!!!!


The primary cause of mass movements gravity, a mass movement is basically when a rock slide or mud slide happen (so when stuff moves down a hill or mountain). there are actually different types of mass movements which include land slides and mud slides. these mass movement are caused by heat rising, earthquakes, and human made mass movements. mass movements will cause social and economic impacts. social because people die or lost valuable items. economic impact because of cost for new stuff. one example of a mas movement was Nepal a 7.8 magnitude earthquake mad caused a mud slide.
an example of a mass movement
stuff falls down mountain and create mass movements

Monday, May 18, 2015

San Andreas Fault- the big one

firat of the movie San Andreas should technically be renamed to puente hills for Los angles is above the puente hills fault. But one the other hand it should not be changed because San Andreas (in the movie) effects the world,  puente hills effects only L.A.

The last "major" earthquake was in 1860 it was a 7.5 magnitude earthquake. Dr. Jones is a sizemetologist with the USGS and is known for watching a 7.2 E.Q. Dr. Jones is worried about all the buildings that would fall down. Retrofitting is when you reinforce old buildings that would fall over if there was a big E.Q. Today if there was a 7.5 magnitude Earthquake about 18,000 people would die  millions would be homeless and 250 billions in damage. Puente Hills is under L.A. And San Andreas is over 30 miles away from L.A.
Example of San Andreas Fault
L.A. Bad things will happen to this city when earthquake happens

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Sea level rise

So the vary basic thing that I can say is that the sea level is riseing slowly but Shurly. Some reasons that the sea level is rising is because of the heat from the industral revolution which is melting land based ice and heat will make the water expaned. Also the less gravity the higher the water. The way scientists are able to measure the rise and drop of water Levels is because of satilite altimetry it measures how long a radio wave hits the water (satiltie to ocean back to satiltie). So they recorde the height of the ocean and see if there is sea level rise, decrease, or the same. See a graph here .
This waters are on the rise at times
The CO2 has made the oceans rise because of this

Monday, April 20, 2015

Ocean Acidification

So basically the ocean is becoming  more acidic due to the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere and ocean. The increase of CO2 is due to the burning of fossil fuels and other things that us humans do. The chemistry of the ocean has changed due to the CO2 in the water which is making the ocean more acidic and marine shell creatures are becoming smaller because they canot grow there shells. The the ocean is more acidic like a battery but it should be like distilled water and a base is bleach.
Battery's an example of an acid
Milk a base ( opposite of an acid)

Friday, April 17, 2015

Human footprint,carbon and sustainability

First of here are some low impact places ( from left to wright on map below)1) kepreanof, alaska, population around 27 people. People moved out to more populated areas and this mostly fishermen Barley and cars. 2) King William Island, population 1,279(as of 2011). So this place is just an island with a few towns and some other stuff with little cars. 3) Town of Leaf Rapids, Canada population in 2006 was 539. The town was developed as an experimental model; a model that other northern communities could replicate as they strove for modern convenience and luxury in a northern environment. 4) nuuk greenland, population 15,666 it was built to be a tourist stop and information center. So not much impact on the earth. 5) Grindavik, Iceland, population 2,888. This town was founded by Vikings and the U.S. Navy has radio antennas out there but that is really all that is out there.

Now here are some high impact places ( from left to wright on map below) 1) Seattle, Washington this city has huge ports and docs with a population of 652,405 as of 2013. Also has sports teams that cause traffic. 2) Houston, Texas population in 2013 was 2,195,914. Has a sports team and a lot of cars to make an urban area. 3) Detroit Michigan, home to Detroit Tigers (baseball team) population in 2010 was 713,777. Has a lot of cars and some factorys. 4) Jacksonville, Florida in 2010 had a population of 1,345,596. Has a lot of cars for a metropolises area and has the biggest population in Florida. 5) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania home of many sports teams in 2010 had a population of 1,526,006 people over 1.5 million people Philadelphia also has many historical places that people go to see and that means a lot of hotels, rental car places and an air port.

View my map here.

Los Angeles a high impact city
A part of Alaska that is low impact

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

carbon + me

The carbon cycle is the process of how we reuse carbon in the earths ecosystem. There are many ways that carbon enters the carbon cycle here are a few, respiration and diffusion. Respiration is when animals release CO2 though breathing out. Diffusion is when CO2 enters through land, oceans, and atmosphere. Carbon is good because it keeps the green house gas here which is like a blanket over our earth (heat is still here). We also get fossil fuels from carbon  after a long time of carbon being I the ground. One bad thing about carbon is that the earth is getting warmer because of the greenhouse gas effect. Things that will convert to fossil fuels include plats and animals if left in the ground with little oxygen for a long time. my own carbon I avoiding 491 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per year but the average American.
This is equivalent to the emissions from driving a car 524 miles.
(Link to graph)https://infogr.am/global_fossil_carbon_emission2
the greenhouse gas effect (carbon is one greenhouse gas)


carbon is in the air because of industry (burning fossil fuels in factorys)

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Why am I on restriction


Dear kearny high school students we are being restricted on water usage because of the drought. On March 17 2015 the accosted press said that new water restrictions have been put into effect. And people can get fined up to $500 for wasting water.

Some water restrictions include watering lawns two times a week, in a restaurant you must ask for a refill of water not the waiter will just refill your water without your permission. you can now say that you want to use your old sheets/ towels in hotels and motels. if there is a leak water specialists will notify you and tell you to fix it. this water law will be enforced by water department people giving you a $500 fine if you do not obey the flowing rules.
 a representation of the drought in California
 only do this twice a week from now on