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The flood still has huge amounts of peoples home under reptile infested water. They haven't had the best luck lately b/c of the oil spill last year and now this. According to the Associated Press the Mississippi River has reached 47.85 feet. This flood will happen for few more days according to an official. Now the Mississippi river is at 6 times its normal width. Record flooding is expected in New Orleans. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers planned on creating three major spill ways in Louisiana but this would cause thousands of people in the area to evacuate and depend on levees. This also causes water to go to areas where the oil spill occured and drown the richest farmland in the country. Also this rush of fresh water will go into several oyster beds, killing the seawater-based molluscs, this causing the end of any oyster harvesting this year. But, authorities say this must happen to protect New Orleans and Baton Roue from major flooding. In Memphis they are still monitoring levees even though the maximum height of the flood has already happened.

I think they should build a dam on the Mississippi River so future floods are prevented. Also I think they should build higher and stronger levees so it is harder for a flood to happen. Lastly, if they do create spill ways, they should make the water go into the woods b/c this will not effect homes and businesses and make the ground more fertile for the plants to eat off but this will make animals die and find new habitats until the flood is over.



BY TYLER GAGNE

AIR ACT.....

1.   sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides
2. The source of most sulfur dioxide is high-sulfur coal burned in power plants. Controlling this source of sulfur dioxide production can have a major impact on acid rain in Pennsylvania and other regions of the Northeast.
3. Only 30 %of the nitrogen oxides causing acid rain come from power production. Automobiles generate another 30 percent and the agricultural sector contributes an additional 25 to 30 percent. Lightening strikes and biological processes produce the remaining nitrogen naturally. Consequently, it is much more difficult to control and regulate nitrogen oxides.

guatemala

• What are some natural factors causing mudslides in Guatemala?

frequent earthquakes and hurricanes and also heavy rains put too much rain into the ground of  Guatemala's terrain that is mostly mountains and muddy soil.   but there is another reason which is deforestation

• What are some human factors causing mudslides in Guatemala?

• people are cutting down trees and that is what helps prevent the mudslides

• What is being done to help reduce mudslides and mudslide damage?

• you can plant trees on the mountain sides to prevent the mudslides 

CO2 Trend

The horizontal scale for this graph are in years 1000-2000
the verticle axis is of CO2 levels. PPM. the range is 80
The data came from Greenland from ice cores

climate questions

• 1 - What do you think the global average temperature is?  This means the average for everywhere on Earth, day and night, for an entire year.  Explain why you answered what you did.
• I think is around 69-72º because its not too hot or too cold and i think most places have the same climate as us
• 2 - People are often talking about "global warming."  How much do you think the average global temperature has increased in the past 100 years?  Do you think that this is a lot?
• 2-3º and i think this is quite a bit because to think about it 2-3º every 100 years goes up pretty quick
• 3 - What do you think is the hottest the Earth has ever been? (since there has been an atmosphere?)  How about the coldest the Earth has ever been?  Explain why you answered what you did.
• 130º and -25º because you think back into the ice age and libya
• 4 - Are you concerned about "global warming?"  Why or why not?
• no because this temp change has been happening again for a long time and i think we are in another "warm" period

grassland or forest soil

rainfall affects both grassland and forest soil but in different ways. Where there is forest soil there is rainfall constantly comming down as otherwise the rain comes in seasons. When there is constant rain fall the water that hits the ground can go into the ground more because of so much water. This would mean water getting into A horizon, the B horizon, and possibly the C horizon. Which then the soil can store it longer thats why the trees are so tall and its so grassy. But if its grassland, water cant get into the ground very far because it only rains during sections of the year instead of year round. so its just grass and small trees

Mass Movement

ROCK SLIDES
Rockslides are the most catastrophic type of landslide. They involve a sudden rapid slide of bedrock along planes of weakness. Rockslides are very common in the oversteepened canyons and drainages of Idaho, particularly in those areas like the Salmon River Canyon where more than 5,000 feet of elevation may exist between the ridge tops and the canyon bottoms.