Current Events

When a tornado hit Joplin many homes were left without electricity after the twister touched down around 6 p.m. About 30 people had been killed, and 11 bodies had been recovered from just one location. Other deadly twisters that have killed hundreds of people in recent months, with Tuscaloosa, Alabama, still recovering from one that also tore through the center of the city in late April. Schools, apartment buildings, mega stores and fire stations were ravaged by the tornado.

A tornado in Minneapolis left one person dead and dozens injured in an area that covered several blocks. President Obama said the Federal Emergency Management Agency was being sent. National Weather Service, said on a scale from 1 to 10, the tornado looked to be a 8-9. Joplin High School’s windows were broken out and part of its roof was missing, church grocery store, large apartment building was demolished. There must have been 150 buildings destroyed.

Acid Rain

1.) List a few of the gases which lead to acid rain.
Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides .
2.) What is the source of much of the acid rain producing gases in Pennsylvania?
Coal in power plants.
3.) Briefly explain how acid rain forms.
Acid rain forms when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides in the atmosphere combine with water to form sulfuric acid and nitric acid, respectively. These acids, mixed with rainwater, fall to Earth as acid rain.

• What are some natural factors causing mudslides in Guatemala?
• - Frequent earthquakes, hurricanes and heavy rains over soak Guatemala's mountainous terrain and make the soil muddy.
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• What are some human factors causing mudslides in Guatemala?
• - From cutting down so many trees for fire wood with, with out noticing they have taken away many of the grounds main support to keep it together.
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• What is being done to help reduce mudslides and mudslide damage?
• - They are planting trees on high areas and making the ground more stable against wet grounds.

What is the horizontal scale of your graph? How many years does it show?
The x axis is years counting by 20 years and from 1960 to 2000.

What is the vertical axis showing? What are the units? What is the total range shown?
The y axis shows temperature, and the temperature ranges from -0.6 to 0.6 and it counts by 0.2 per a unit.

Can you tell from the picture's host page where the data came from? If so, where?
They don't specifically say where the data came from.

Text book thing

Where there is a lot of water/rain their are large amounts of tree and grass growth. When there is lower amounts of water there isn't much or none tree growth and there is grass.

This a Land Slide. These Land Slides can be caused by loose soil and heavy rain fall and other reasons.

Journal Entry

I understand the high need for fossil fuels such as oil, gas and others. I see no problem in what they need to do find it and collect it. But what I see a problem with, is the fact that they feel that they can take over peoples land and build an oil pump in their back yard. I also think that BP should take full blame for the Gulf oil spill. They should of been ready for this type of situation in different ways.