First of all i would like to clear up the definitions of all of the above wards noted in the title. Abiotic means the physical and chemical aspects of an organism’s environment or not containing or supporting life. Biotic basically is the aposite of abiotic in that it reflects organism's that contain or support life. Mutualism is an interaction between two or more species where both species derive benefit. An example of this is such as monkeys living in trees. They both benifit from each other in that the trees provide nutrience for the monkeys and the monkeys eat the seeds off the trees and replant and furtilize the seeds in their poop. Comensulism is where one benifits without hurting the other such as a flower growing in or on a tree. Parasitism is just like it sounds. parasites like leaches or ticks in which literaly suck the life out of you. tigers and bears well that was just a catchy fraze just ignore it! ok well basically that is it!
ps spelling is bad just ignore. spell check does not work in word or here! Arg
Monday, March 19, 2007
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Paper
What I have never noticed is how much News paper damages our environment. Think of how much paper that is every year. Sure the comics are fun to read, but what about all the rest of the paper that most do not read? What becomes of these huge amounts of News papers? They Are Either thrown away or they are recycled and eventually thrown away. Just latly we have stoped the use of using lead in our ink. But before we were just throwing away tons of lead. What we need to do is completly erase news papers from our society for ever. We can do this through the use of the internet and already many people have converted to this new and growing way of getting your news every day. This is the future and we must act now!
Sunday, March 11, 2007
The War on Global Warming Movies.
By Parker Forman
Even though the world at some point in time will come to an end, weather it is due to global warming or just the fact that it is, our society as a whole and our views alike have truly been altered by and deluded by the Film industry. I say this not in that these films, such as The Inconvenient Truth and Water World, are wrong, but that they are contradicting each other as well as deluding the overall message of Global Warming. Through the creation of these movies the overall message of Global Warming has been dramatized to not only make a profit, but to also create an exciting story. Although these films may be exciting and produce a profit, this whole concept of creating a profit without any of this money going to the Global Warming eradication is appalling and hypocritical. The Inconvenient Truth is just one of these Films that is hypocritical.
Although throughout his film, Al Gore, is seen discussing how we need to stop Global Warming through the act of every person doing there own share in lessening our impacts on the Earth, Al Gore is not contributing his own share. Within this film he is consistently seen either flying on a private plane or driving a Suburban on his family’s huge ranch. Is this what a model spokesman for global Warming should be like? Sure The Incontinent Truth won a Academy award for best documentary, but the life style in which Al Gore is living not only deludes the overall cause, but it also creates a world in which is led by hypocritical lies. How is it that Al Gore got to the award ceremony? He flew on his private plane and then once he got to LA he was driven in a hybrid to the award ceremony after being escorted by a convoy of armored SUVs and secret service. Is it just me or is he so ashamed of his life style that he has to hide it form the public? Or does he think that just doing a little will do a lot in the end result. When he was going to the ceremony he might as well have been driving a Hummer because the short drive from his hotel to the Beverly Hilton would not have made so much more of an impact than that of his usually life style. Al Gore is a hypocritical model for Global Warming and the data as well as his predictions in his film are far to over exaggerated. Sure the earth is getting warmer, but it has been getting warming since the last ice age. The human race has been contributing to the overall cause of Global warming, but hay our Earth has been going through these cycles since the beginning of time, it is natural. As with Al Gore’s graphs shown in the film the future temperature increases are far to over exaggerate. When he gets on the man lift to show what the future would look like within the next few years, the slope of the line on the graph increased to the point that it looked almost vertical. Is that possible? How is it that within the up coming years our generation will sky rocket the temperatures faster than anyone in the history of the world? We can’t especially what is currently being research in the fields of cleaner energy. Although The Inconvenient Truth is filled will exaggerations as well as a poor spokes model such movies like the Water World mislead the viewer in a different way.
Even though Water World was a typical Kevin Costner Film, there were many flaws in its probability of actually happening, which is not surprising. The possibility of the ice caps melting and covering all of the land on Earth is very unlikely. First of all there is not enough glaciers and Ice to be melted in order to cover the whole earth in water and secondly only the lower elevations would be effected if all the Ice caps and glaciers were to melt. If all the Ice and glaciers were to melt I find it ridiculous and inconceivable that the world would be covered in ice, instead I think that In some ways the Inconvenient Truth was right as to what would possibly happen if the temperatures would increase and all ice would melt. In the Inconvenient Truth Al Gore proposed that the Conventional currents of the Ocean would ultimately stop and that would lead to another Ice Age not a land of only oceans. Films such as Water World were ultimately created in order to just produce a profit, however this movie died when it first came out and mad almost no money and with this movie died the over all concept of stopping Global Warming if that was its intention in the first place. Unlike the Inconvenient Truth, Water World was created for financial purposes. These films were alike in that they deluded and glamorized the concept of Global Warming by either being far to boring or so exciting that they lost all meaning. If there was a Film that took both the informational data from the Inconvenient Truth and the excitement of Water World, the concept of Global Warming would be appealing to a larger crowd and thus more action could be taken. Such a movie does exist! The Day After Tomorrow.
The Day After Tomorrow was the perfect Global Warming movie, not in how precise it was, but how it displayed the overall tragedy of could happen if we do not do anything to stop our polluting ways. This movie also displayed the way the government and most people in general feel about global warming and that is that it will not happen in our live times. This common human stereotype is played out by the Vice President in the movie who constantly ignores the oncoming crisis and in the end pays for it with the loss of a lot of American lives. This film took the best parts of two ok movies and created its own super film if you will. It was educational in that it was very plausible outcome to Global Warming but it had the excitement of all Kevin Costner movies combined. Although some aspects of the movie, such as the tornado scenes and the overall speed in which the tragedy happened are debatable, the overall message was far greater than any movie of its class to date.
The Film industry has had a huge impact on the views of such debatable topics like Global Warming. The Film industry has the power to inform the public on this topic. However movies like The Inconvenient Truth and Water World are either to boring for the A.D.D Generation or they are so exciting that they have lost their whole meaning and confuse the viewer. The future is right around the corner and with the help of such movies like the Day After Tomorrow, hopefully the message has gotten through to those who need Riddlin on a daily basis. We need to change now or we may never be able to. The future is in my genreration's hands, lets hope it will stay within our grasps.
By Parker Forman
Even though the world at some point in time will come to an end, weather it is due to global warming or just the fact that it is, our society as a whole and our views alike have truly been altered by and deluded by the Film industry. I say this not in that these films, such as The Inconvenient Truth and Water World, are wrong, but that they are contradicting each other as well as deluding the overall message of Global Warming. Through the creation of these movies the overall message of Global Warming has been dramatized to not only make a profit, but to also create an exciting story. Although these films may be exciting and produce a profit, this whole concept of creating a profit without any of this money going to the Global Warming eradication is appalling and hypocritical. The Inconvenient Truth is just one of these Films that is hypocritical.
Although throughout his film, Al Gore, is seen discussing how we need to stop Global Warming through the act of every person doing there own share in lessening our impacts on the Earth, Al Gore is not contributing his own share. Within this film he is consistently seen either flying on a private plane or driving a Suburban on his family’s huge ranch. Is this what a model spokesman for global Warming should be like? Sure The Incontinent Truth won a Academy award for best documentary, but the life style in which Al Gore is living not only deludes the overall cause, but it also creates a world in which is led by hypocritical lies. How is it that Al Gore got to the award ceremony? He flew on his private plane and then once he got to LA he was driven in a hybrid to the award ceremony after being escorted by a convoy of armored SUVs and secret service. Is it just me or is he so ashamed of his life style that he has to hide it form the public? Or does he think that just doing a little will do a lot in the end result. When he was going to the ceremony he might as well have been driving a Hummer because the short drive from his hotel to the Beverly Hilton would not have made so much more of an impact than that of his usually life style. Al Gore is a hypocritical model for Global Warming and the data as well as his predictions in his film are far to over exaggerated. Sure the earth is getting warmer, but it has been getting warming since the last ice age. The human race has been contributing to the overall cause of Global warming, but hay our Earth has been going through these cycles since the beginning of time, it is natural. As with Al Gore’s graphs shown in the film the future temperature increases are far to over exaggerate. When he gets on the man lift to show what the future would look like within the next few years, the slope of the line on the graph increased to the point that it looked almost vertical. Is that possible? How is it that within the up coming years our generation will sky rocket the temperatures faster than anyone in the history of the world? We can’t especially what is currently being research in the fields of cleaner energy. Although The Inconvenient Truth is filled will exaggerations as well as a poor spokes model such movies like the Water World mislead the viewer in a different way.
Even though Water World was a typical Kevin Costner Film, there were many flaws in its probability of actually happening, which is not surprising. The possibility of the ice caps melting and covering all of the land on Earth is very unlikely. First of all there is not enough glaciers and Ice to be melted in order to cover the whole earth in water and secondly only the lower elevations would be effected if all the Ice caps and glaciers were to melt. If all the Ice and glaciers were to melt I find it ridiculous and inconceivable that the world would be covered in ice, instead I think that In some ways the Inconvenient Truth was right as to what would possibly happen if the temperatures would increase and all ice would melt. In the Inconvenient Truth Al Gore proposed that the Conventional currents of the Ocean would ultimately stop and that would lead to another Ice Age not a land of only oceans. Films such as Water World were ultimately created in order to just produce a profit, however this movie died when it first came out and mad almost no money and with this movie died the over all concept of stopping Global Warming if that was its intention in the first place. Unlike the Inconvenient Truth, Water World was created for financial purposes. These films were alike in that they deluded and glamorized the concept of Global Warming by either being far to boring or so exciting that they lost all meaning. If there was a Film that took both the informational data from the Inconvenient Truth and the excitement of Water World, the concept of Global Warming would be appealing to a larger crowd and thus more action could be taken. Such a movie does exist! The Day After Tomorrow.
The Day After Tomorrow was the perfect Global Warming movie, not in how precise it was, but how it displayed the overall tragedy of could happen if we do not do anything to stop our polluting ways. This movie also displayed the way the government and most people in general feel about global warming and that is that it will not happen in our live times. This common human stereotype is played out by the Vice President in the movie who constantly ignores the oncoming crisis and in the end pays for it with the loss of a lot of American lives. This film took the best parts of two ok movies and created its own super film if you will. It was educational in that it was very plausible outcome to Global Warming but it had the excitement of all Kevin Costner movies combined. Although some aspects of the movie, such as the tornado scenes and the overall speed in which the tragedy happened are debatable, the overall message was far greater than any movie of its class to date.
The Film industry has had a huge impact on the views of such debatable topics like Global Warming. The Film industry has the power to inform the public on this topic. However movies like The Inconvenient Truth and Water World are either to boring for the A.D.D Generation or they are so exciting that they have lost their whole meaning and confuse the viewer. The future is right around the corner and with the help of such movies like the Day After Tomorrow, hopefully the message has gotten through to those who need Riddlin on a daily basis. We need to change now or we may never be able to. The future is in my genreration's hands, lets hope it will stay within our grasps.
Monday, February 5, 2007
Green power tastes like purple
It comes from wind generated and solar generated power but that does not matter at some point in time we are all going to die because the sun will at some point in time blow up and either kill us all on the spot from the explosion or we would then die from not having the heat from the sun. Instead of worrying about global warming we should worry about how we are going move the Earth to another sun. But on a lighter note we can "save" our environment by the use of such renewable resources as solar, wind, biomass,Geothermal and hydrogen fuel cells. Although these ways are only a temporary patch in which may slow down the Earth's global shifts. Green power is power that is produced from renewable resources. When we are buying green power we are buying tickets in which relieve us from the blame of global worming. So pretty much if you buy Green Energy you are temporally healing the Earth.
Friday, February 2, 2007
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
The Single Largest air Polluter in the United States!
Coal Burning to Create Electric power.
At a coal plant they produce Electric power through the act of combusting coal.
The object of Coal burning is to produce Thermal energy into Mechanical energy with the final product being electric energy.
Fossil Fuel produces over 50% of Americas Electricity but the production of Electric power in this way is very damaging to our environment.
Burning coal produces:
Smog
Acid Rain
Global Worming
Toxic Air Emissions
Soot
World Wide the production of Energy through burning Coal produces is about40%. Can you imagine how much damage this is causing to our environment.
Advantages:
Lots of energy can be produced with low costs.
They are very a very efficient way of producing our energy other than the pollution that is emitted into our environment.
Disadvantage's:
Pollution
Global warning due to emission of tons of carbon dioxide
To produce enough energy for so many people large amounts of coal need to be mined which can be dangerous and tedious.
Resources:
www.answers.com
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/coalvswind/c01.html
http://home.clara.net/darvill/altenerg/fossil.htm
At a coal plant they produce Electric power through the act of combusting coal.
The object of Coal burning is to produce Thermal energy into Mechanical energy with the final product being electric energy.
Fossil Fuel produces over 50% of Americas Electricity but the production of Electric power in this way is very damaging to our environment.
Burning coal produces:
Smog
Acid Rain
Global Worming
Toxic Air Emissions
Soot
World Wide the production of Energy through burning Coal produces is about40%. Can you imagine how much damage this is causing to our environment.
Advantages:
Lots of energy can be produced with low costs.
They are very a very efficient way of producing our energy other than the pollution that is emitted into our environment.
Disadvantage's:
Pollution
Global warning due to emission of tons of carbon dioxide
To produce enough energy for so many people large amounts of coal need to be mined which can be dangerous and tedious.
Resources:
www.answers.com
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/coalvswind/c01.html
http://home.clara.net/darvill/altenerg/fossil.htm
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Web evaluation based on Berkeley Evaluation Checklist
AFDB
http://zapatopi.net/afdb/
Its domain is .net
This site was created by Lyle Zapato.
It was last updated 2005.
Noy very reliable credentials
Sources were very well documented
Does not seem to be altered or forged
Yes the links work
Their view points are not really bias but insaine.
many link to it including Amozon.com
It is not rated at all.
No real info given of the author on google
No It does not all add up.
This web site was put up in order to sell a horrible idea.
This is most definatly satirical.
http://zapatopi.net/afdb/
Its domain is .net
This site was created by Lyle Zapato.
It was last updated 2005.
Noy very reliable credentials
Sources were very well documented
Does not seem to be altered or forged
Yes the links work
Their view points are not really bias but insaine.
many link to it including Amozon.com
It is not rated at all.
No real info given of the author on google
No It does not all add up.
This web site was put up in order to sell a horrible idea.
This is most definatly satirical.
Monday, January 22, 2007
My mark on the world!
Well first of all one of my largest marks on this planet is the Co2 I have produced over the years through the act of breathing. In my opinion I think that we should declare a national holiday in which all people hold their breath or breath in small little baggies in which we can then either fill a rocket and send it into the sun or maybe just shoot it somewhere else. Through this process of not producing extra Co2 in the air I think that it will probably postpone Global Warming and or bring more snow to Colorado. I think that this National Holiday should be called Jeff's Mom's day which should be held on January 30th in honor of her Birthday.
Another mark I have made on this earth is a ton of waste. What am I going to do about all this waste, you may ask? Well here is the answer: I think that the most logical place to put it is space or the sun, so that it is completely out of my way. Inorder to do this I think I want to build a very large elevator into space in which my waste and others can be lifted into space. After this waste is lifted into space I hope to huck it out far enough so that when it comes back into our solar system it would be a very beautiful comit, in which in the year 2072 would hit the Earth killing all humans which would solve Global Worming and over Population. How crazy would that be! The future looks bright!
By Elmo
Another mark I have made on this earth is a ton of waste. What am I going to do about all this waste, you may ask? Well here is the answer: I think that the most logical place to put it is space or the sun, so that it is completely out of my way. Inorder to do this I think I want to build a very large elevator into space in which my waste and others can be lifted into space. After this waste is lifted into space I hope to huck it out far enough so that when it comes back into our solar system it would be a very beautiful comit, in which in the year 2072 would hit the Earth killing all humans which would solve Global Worming and over Population. How crazy would that be! The future looks bright!
By Elmo
The Final Exam Question!
When I was in the boy scouts they taught us a saying when we went camping. "Leaving only your footprints and take only your memories with you." Whether we like it or not our daily lives make an impact on the world around us. Nicely put we make a difference. I would like you to think about the footprints you leave in one day of your life. You should incorporate as many of the fallowing aspects of the Environment issube course into your answer.
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