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﻿ Have you ever thought, I want to learn more about //science//.  Well, you came to the right place!! Welcome to Abigail's __//AWESOME//__ Science Wiki!!!!!!!!! On this wiki I'm going to be putting information that I learn in Science class . So, click on a super cool link and start __//**l**//__ __//**e a r n i n g **////**! **//__ <span style="color: #56ca21; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">More links may be on the links I already have! So, go check it out!!! <span style="color: #56ca21; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Dr. Holmes 10k

<span style="color: #005bff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Cairo Slum 10k

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Sea turtles 10k

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Science Daily!

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Animal rights....or man's?

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Moles....AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (My Animal with the misleading name research is on this page.)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Endangered species... STOP THE MADNESS!!!!

<span style="color: #1fdb86; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Did you know that there is one big classification system?? Scientist have this because it helps them compare discovers and each know what the other one is saying! Even if they speak different languages!! So, what if you made categories based on color? That wouldn't go very well, because the animals or plants may have the same color but have nothing else in common. So, we categorize living things by appearence, adaptations, and body stucture. <span style="color: #f3822b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">Nissan Ad- <span style="color: #f3822b; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 130%;">What I think is that it's great that Nissan is doing a "go green" ad. I believe it will help people come to realize that we need to care for our earth because we are harming and destroying it. I think they are trying to show people that we are destroying polar ice caps and other habitats! Way to go Nissan!!!!!!!!!

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">If you are wondering, how are humans affecting our earth? Here are some group wiki facts and questions!

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">**DEFORESTATION** <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Some main causes of deforestation are... <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">FACTS- <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">QUESTIONS- <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Q: How can kids help this problem? <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">A: Use less paper by using both sides of a sheet of paper. Also recycling paper and buying less products that don't have gold or dimands, because we cut down forest for mining space to get them. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Q: How long do we have left until all our forests are gone? <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">A: It is estimated in less than 40 years. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Some main causes of air and water pollution are... <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">FACTS- <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">QUESTIONS- <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Q: Is there any way for humans to clean the air we already polluted? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">A: Yes, inventors have created a new kind of sidewalk that helps reduce the toxic fumes from the air. (For more on this subject click on the link.) New sidewalk pavers can clean polluted air! <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Q: How many people die each year from water pollution? <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">A: 5 million people die each year from water pollution. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">FACTS- <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">QUESTIONS- <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Q: When was the biggest oil spill ever? <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">A: In 1991 near Kuwait 520 million gallons of oil spilled into the ocean. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Q: How do oil spills affect sea turtles? <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">A: When the turtles come up to breath air they swallow or breath in the oil and that can damage their lungs. <span style="color: #f0b384; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Some main causes of desertification are... <span style="color: #f0b384; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">FACTS- <span style="color: #f0b384; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">QUESTIONS- <span style="color: #f0b384; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Q: Has there been any areas in the U.S.A. that had desertification? <span style="color: #f0b384; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">A: Yes, in the 1930's parts of the Great Plains in the United States turned into the "dust bowl." This was because of poor farming and droughts. <span style="color: #f0b384; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Q: How can you prevent desertification? <span style="color: #f0b384; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">A: By carefully managing your land, and doing less plowing. Instead of plowing, make a hole for each seed. Now this will take more time, but it helps to have less damage to the fragile soil. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">FACTS- <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">QUESTIONS- <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Q: How do we help the animals that have lost their habitats? <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">A: Some people (the responsible and wise people) help by trying to restore their habitats. Also, they try to help reduce the threats to wildlife. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Q: How are people harming the desert? <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">A: By littering and using the land for nuclear testing.
 * 1) <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Climate Change
 * 2) <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Subsistence Cultivators (cutting down forest for farms and wood)
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Forest used to cover more than 14% of our earth, but now only cover 6%
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">We are cutting down more trees than we are planting them
 * <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Humans cut down too much wood and end up wasting most of it
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">AIR & WATER POLLUTION **
 * 1) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Smoke
 * 2) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Soot
 * 3) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Gas
 * 4) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Plastic
 * 5) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Chemicals
 * 6) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Factories
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">People can die from breathing to much polluted air
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The U.S.A. is resonsible for 30.3% of the world's gas emmisions.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">OIL SPILLS **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">The Exon Valdez oil spill killed about 900 bald ealges.
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Many sea animals will swallow the oil and die.
 * <span style="color: #f0b384; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">DESERTIFICATION **
 * 1) <span style="color: #f0b384; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Over grazing
 * 2) <span style="color: #f0b384; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Semi acid / drought
 * 3) <span style="color: #f0b384; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Destruction of vegitation
 * <span style="color: #f0b384; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Desertification can ruin soil, which humans need to grow food.
 * <span style="color: #f0b384; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Desertification is happening in 70% of all drylands.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">HABITAT DESTRUCTION **
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Concrete is replacing soil and raising tempatures.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Rainforest used to cover 15% of the earth's suface, and now about half of it is gone!

<span style="color: #00baff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">WOW!!!!!!!!!! I don't know about you but that information really shocked me! Just think... how can we make a __change__?

<span style="color: #844b0b; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">You are probaly thinking... what? What in the world is soil erosion? Well, let me tell you! It is when the top layer of soil is eroded away and makes the ground unproductive for growing crops. There are three main kinds of soil erosion, high wind, water, and tillage erosion. Wind erosion is a problem mostly on dry, flat, land. The wind blows around little bits of soil across the land. Water erosion can happen when winter snows melt, heavy rainfall, or sudden floods happen. Tillage erosion mostly is caused by the way the farmer plows his or hers land. It all depands on how the farmer manages the his or her fields during the winter months can affect the amount of soil lost. Also, planting trees can help soil erosion by holding it in place with it's roots. By planting trees, shrubs, vegetation, and other plants will help the soil not be blow away or washed away!
 * <span style="color: #844b0b; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;">Soil Erosion **

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Do you know how important the earth's water supply is?? Well, it's pretty valuable, I mean we as humans need water to live!The hydrologic cycle recycles the earth's water supply and lets us reuse it. How cool is that?!? The way it works is that first the sun evaporates the water from oceans, ponds, lakes, rivers, ect. Then, the water vapor forms into clouds! Next, when the clouds become to heavy from being filled up with water and it rains. Finnaly, the cycle starts back up again by the sun evaporating the rain that fell to the ground. So, do you remember hearing this stuff before? Well, it's all a cycle and the hydrologic cycle is just a fancy name of saying it. So, now you can go out and say, "I know all about the hydrologic cycle! Do you?"
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">The Hydrologic Cycle **

<span style="color: #2d2dfb; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Ocean Questions <span style="color: #2d2dfb; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I read some really cool questions on "Ask a scientist." I'll tell you about some, like for example, a guy named Ben from the United States asked "How does a walrus eat with those huge tusk? Don't they block the food??" Well, I learned that walruses typically feed on clams and mollusks. Also, they can eat up to 6 percent of their body weight! Wow! And guess what? I learned that walruses can't see that well so they use their long wiskers to detect food on the ocean floor! Soooooo cool! Another question of Sara's from Canada is "How many teeth does a great white shark have?" The answer is that typically they can have around 3,000 teeth in different numbers of rows! How cool is that!!!! Last, a question from Charles from the United States is "Is it possible that there are marine animals bigger than the blue whale and unknown to modern science?" The answer was many new speicies are being found but it is unlikely that a species so big would be new to science. Also, 95% of the oceans are unexplored. Just think! That's a lot of ocean that we don't even know about!! So my personal opinion is that I kind of disagree. I think we could find a new type of marine animal that big in the ocean! Maybe even bigger! Well, that's just my personal opinion. What's yours??
 * <span style="color: #2d2dfb; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Do you think we could find a new type of marine animal that is bigger than the blue whale? **
 * <span style="color: #2d2dfb; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">(answer on the bullutins below, yes or no, and please put your name) **
 * I do believe we can find a larger creature, the world will always be loaded with mystery... (: MARIA
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Cool wiki Abby, I love your wiki style!!!! Embrace your awesomeness!!!!! - Celia

 * Hey Abigail, please go to my Awards wiki and vote for a nominee. Oh, and great wiki!!! - Brandon B . **
 * AWESOME WIKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love the colors!!!!!!!!!!:):):):):)- Heidi (The Otter Lover) ﻿ **