Acid Rain

#1) The major gases contributing to acid rain, are as follows:  sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) These mix with air and h2o to form mild solutions of sulfuric and nitric acid.

#2) The Burnning of fossil fuels.

#3) Acid rain can seveirly damage streams lakes and wetlands, making water acidic and killing some aniamls.

1) What is the Purpose of fracking? Fracking is a method of Natural Gas mining.

2) Water mixed with chemicals is forced down a tube into the earth, and is under high pressure, this then fractures the rock and breaks up the rock and allows natural gas to escape and go the the surface.

3) Because this water that is toxically contaminated this can flow into water sources.

Tier 2

Dams are an old technique used by humans and beavers alike. This, like everything has it’s positives and negatives but the positives out weigh the negatives. Damming a river  can be a very good thing because it can protect living things like humans that have built or live along side. This however can also be a negative because flooding can cause soil “rehabilitation” like what happens to the Nile. But this was interrupted and stopped by the Soviets. They built a dam and ruined the whole thing. This however this is a unusual case because the Nile and it’s flooding is rather unique. Dams are also used to create reservoirs. These are great because they create a large and new habitat that can accommodate more animals. In drought weather this can also save humans and animals, where the river would have been diminished the reservoir could hold much more water. And this also creates a cool and nice place to enjoy water sports. And the third is hydroelectricity production. Dams can harness the power of the water flowing and use it to turn a turbine creating electricity with no harmful bi products. Dams alone power 10% of our nations power use and that is with our limited use. This coupled with everything else is why i believe dams should still be used today.

Global warming

1. Answer the following questions about it:

1.  Years, segments in 100 thousand years. 
2. Right. 
3. Temp. In Celsius in five degree segments. 
4. Ice cores from Vostok and EPICA. 

The causes for mine explosions is gas that is trapped in the rock which is released and spreads throughout a shaft and ignites and begins to burn the coal dust which in turn catches alight the solid coal and could burn for years.

The families of the lost miners (from the US.) were compensated with 1.5 Million dollars.  The Chinese families were given a total of 103 thousand dollars plus 1700 dollars for funeral compensation.

I think the lacking safety regulations in China are because they are more worried about making money and power then safety. They are too interested in the result then what happens to get there. China is more focussed on making money and providing power because they are a "growing country" and need to meet the demand and safety has no place in their operations.

Trenton lloyd-Rees

BP's messup

The oil rig Deepwater Horizon's disaster has stuck thousands of lives. The finger of blame can be pointed toward a number of people, but I believe that the company that owned the rig is responsible. This company is called BP. They are responsible because they bought everything, the security features, they hired the personel, they did everything. And they should have to pay for the clean up. Plain simple and fair.

Turkey Quake

1.) What are the names of the two tectonic plates which are interacting to cause earthquakes in Turkey.  Eurasian and Arabian Plates.
2.) What kind of plate boundary is it? Convergent
3.) What is the most powerful magnitude earthquake that has struck Turkey in the past 100 years? M7.8