Biosphere8

__** Effecting the Biosphere **__ __** ﻿The Forest Defenders **__
 * __Facts__ **
 * -Climate change and Subsistence Cultivators are main causes of deforestation, also pollution and poverty. **
 * -This defects everyone. **
 * -The rainforest once covered 14% of the earth now they cover 6%!! **
 * -This mainly happens in the Amazon basin of South America, the Cango River Basin of Central Africa, and S.E. Asia. **


 * __ Questions(- means question, * means answer) __**
 * -What machines are used to cut down the trees? **
 * *Some of the machines used are backhoes, bulldozers, chainsaws, forwarders, and harvesters. **
 * -What year did they start deforestation in the rainforests? **
 * *It started around the 1960's. **

**__Air and Water Pollution__** **__Facts__** **-Dust, pollen, smoke, smog, and soot are some of the very many things that cause air pollution.** **-Ways to prevent air pollution are carpooling, avoiding lighter fluid, and doing all errends at once.** **-Why we have to stop air pollution, children get sick easy, and we breath air and it is polluted.** **-Powerplants, cars, animals, etc. are what make dust, pollen, and smoke be here in the world.** **-Plastic, chemicals, dead things, and rotton food influence water pollution.** **-Ways to stop water pollution is to no over use fertilizers, and be careful about what you throw down the drain.** **-The different kinds of water pollution are ground, surface, and nutrients.**

__ **Question(- means question and * means answer)** __ **-Can what's happening in China happen in other places?** ***Well, Asian cities including Katmandu and Bejing, Latin American cities Lima and Arequipa, and Cario, Africa are polluted with big air pollution.** **-Is acid rain a form of water pollution?** ***Yes, it is a mix of gas and water.** __**Habitat Heros**__ __**Ocean facts**__ **-Causes for habitat loss are pollution, waste, chemical effluent, and runoff, but these are just a few!!!!!** **-There is less that 1% of coral reefs left.** **-Shark nets keep sharks away from the beach, but also keeps other good fish out and it kills them all!** **-Dead zones are a place in the sea where all life and all oxygen is wiped out, these dead zones covers 250,000 sqaure kilometers of water.**

__** Polar Ice Caps Facts **__ __** Question(- means question, * means answer) **__ __** Rainforst facts **__ __** Questions(- means question, * means answer) **__ __** Desert facts **__ __** Question(- means question, * means answer) **__ __** Natural forest facts **__
 * __ Questions(- means question, * means answer) __**
 * -Do many beaches use shark nets? **
 * *Yes, from Austrlia to South Africa. **
 * -Can dead zones spread? **
 * *Yes, the were spreading in Oceanic. **
 * -Global warming melts 9% of the ice caps every decade. **
 * -Oil drilling, car exhaust, factory smoke, pollution, and chemical runoff are bad things for the Ice Caps. **
 * -You can recycle, reuse, put your lights off, and use less water to help. **
 * -Animals that are effected are polar bears, seals, whales, walruses, and us. **
 * -How long will it take for all the Ice Caps to melt? **
 * *They will all melt around 2040. **
 * -How does oil drilling effect the Ice Caps? **
 * *The greenhouse gases melt them. **
 * -Logging, deforestation, minning, large dams, fuelwood, and tourism are causes of the destruction of the rainforest. **
 * -The Africa Cango Basin(2nd largest rainforest in the world) is shrinking at 1.6 million hectares per year out of the 190 million hectares it started with. **
 * -Rain forests once covered 14% of the earth now it only covers 6%!!! **
 * -Some effected animals enclude apes, lizard, jaguars, and alligators. **
 * -Are they harmed just to make money? **
 * *Yes,they make chair and sell paper. **
 * -How does mining effect rain forests? **
 * *They __dig__ for minerals. **
 * -The desert covers 5% of the earth. **
 * -The desert receives less than 10 inches of rain each year. **
 * -Dirt bikes are bad for the deserts. **
 * -Endangered animals include the kangeroo rat, and the paire dog. **
 * -There is not much life in the desert. **
 * -What kind of animals live in the sand dunes? **
 * *Kit fox, rattlesnakes, and spadefoots(type of toad) live in sand dunes. **
 * -What is uraninm mining? **
 * *It is the process of extracting uraninm ore from the ground. **
 * -The area the size of a 100 football fields is lost every minute. **
 * -They are cutting trees for paper, litering invaise plants, crops, and oxygen. **
 * -Effected animals enclude moose, rabbit, wolf, fox, and deer. **
 * -Ways we can help are that we can plant trees for oxygen, pick up trash, and pull out invaise plants. **

__** Eco Team......Desertification **__ __** ﻿ **__ __** ﻿ **__ __** Facts **__ __** Questions(- means question, * means answer) **__ ***Term used to define maximum possible output of an economy.** ***The amount of animals and plants that grow and thrive in a specfic place.**
 * __Question(- means question, * means answer)__ **
 * -Are birds harmed? **
 * *They are one of the major harmed animals! **
 * -How much do forests cover the world? **
 * *About only 6% is left!!! **
 * -Animals don't cause desertification, humans burn grass. **
 * -Desertification happens in 70% of all drylands and one-quarter of the whole earth. **
 * -Some main causes are over grazing, destruction of vegitations, and semi-arid/drought. **
 * -Desertification happens usually slowly, sometimes over 10 years of time. **
 * -What is productive capacity? **
 * -What is biologial productivity? **

__All around questions__ **-What is the purpose of gold mining potassium cyanid in the desert?** ***Keep checking back for my answer!!!!!!** **-Why is concrete rasing the tempatures?** ***Concrete like asphalt and steel is heat-absorbing. The concrete absourbs the heat, as it gets hotter there is not many cooling vegetations so the city keeps getting hotter and hotter.** **-Who is Gradhi?** ***I will look soon.** __** Sources﻿ **__ **-http://kids.mongabay.com/lesson_plans/lisa_algee/mining.html** **-http://www.miamisci.org/youth/unity/tl/Unity2/Sand_Dunes/index.html**
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 * -http://www.who.int/phe/air_quality_q&a.pdf **
 * -http://library.thinkquest.org/C0111401/acid_rain.htm **
 * -http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=oceanic-dead-zones-spread **
 * -http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4232375.ece **
 * -http://www.umich.edu/~gs265/society/greenhouse.htm **
 * -http://www.cyberparent.com/rainforest/peopleharmtomakemoney11.htm **
 * -http://www.libraryindex.com/pages/672/Status-Bird-Species-WHAT-ARE-MAJOR-THREATS-BIRDS.html **
 * -wikipedia **