reveiw for test wednesday

     We have a test on Wednesday on environmental geography. Some notes from our review; for hundreds of centuries the earth has cycled between ice ages and thaws. It has always been part of the natural order of things. Our impact has included raising the planets temperature by 1.2 F to 1.4 F in the last hundred years. Compare this to your basic pattern of glacial periods, usually last between 40,000 to 100,000 years. Burning fossil fuels, produces carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide intensifies the greenhouse effect, which causes heat to be reflected back to earth. Carbon dioxide and methane have reached their highest levels in 420,000,000 years. Sources: cars, factories, power plants, trucks, jets. Rising sea levels which could flood coastal areas. Severe drought (warm areas) and species unable to adapt to the changing conditions, the animals can face extinction. 10 of the last 13 years were the warmest on record. Corals and species at risk, oysters and clams are calcified. The food web (food chain in ocean) are endangered.

more enviormental geography

     Today we were asked if we should be worried about the affects of all these fossil fuels and the climate change because of them. I think we should be worried about the problem because of how the problem will turn out long term. On the other hand there isn't a whole lot we can do, we can't all just stop using gases to fuel our cars and other systems. We can slowly start doing small things, but in the long run they won't be very effective. Also nobody really understands what they are really doing to the environment. They are just going through their everyday routines. They don't want to be worried about that especially if its not effecting us currently. With the fact we didn't want to deal with these problems, we just ended the class with cute videos of bunnies, puppies, and goats.

Enviormental Geography

   Today we watched a video by Bill Nye. It explained how our climate is changing and it's our fault. "Ocean acidification" a rise in activity in the oceans chemistry as a direct effect from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reacting to salt water. Glaciers are melting and have caused the sea level to rise up about 6.7 inches. Every year since 1944 the Earth has lost 400,000,000,000 tons of glaciers/ice. Shores can't hold water, so this is causing areas to flood. "Climate change" a long-term change in the Earths overall temperature with massive permanent ramifications.

Test today

   Today in class we took our test. It was hard for me because I missed the day we talked about the first 6 leaders. Some of the questions I didn't know at all so I guessed but I knew a lot of them. We were able to use our blog so that helped too. Then after the test I studied for my English exam. We have to write our essay for the Human Geography exam this weekend. We have three options of essay questions so i'll have to pick one of them.

Test tomorrow

    Today in class we reviewed for our test tomorrow. It is on the political leaders power point. The whole thing is fill in the blank. The leaders on the test are: Rouseff (Russia) Xi (China) Hollande (France) Merkel (Germany) Mukherjee (India) Peres/Netanyahu (Israel) Pena Nieto (Mexico) Cameron/Queen Elizabeth (United Kingdom) Putin (Russia) al-Assad (Syria) Masum (Iraq) Trudeau (Canada). These are the leaders that we will have questions about on our test tomorrow.

Political geography

      Today in class we continued with the power point. We talked about Enrique Pena Nieto. He is the president of Mexico. He had an affair and had two children and has three children with his wife Monica. Monica died in 2007 at their home. He is called the Teflon Candidate, because trouble seems to slide off him. 2 years later he was engaged to Angelica Rivera, a famous soap opera actress, and they had a big fancy wedding. She then became the first lady. Then we talked about Prime Minister David Cameron and Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Cameron was rich and privileged and from the time he was 7 years old he attended Heatherdown, which was a highly exclusive school. His first child Ivan, was profoundly disabled and required, round the clock, care. Ivan died in February 2009. Cameron's experience with Ivan broadened his horizons, he was said to life an almost charmed life till that point. He was the youngest Prime Minister (43 years old when he took office) in over 200 years. Elizabeth became queen on February 6th 1953, and has been queen for 60 years and counting. Next we talked about Vladimir Putin the President of Russia. He was President from 2000-2008 then became Prime Minister, then was elected President again in 2012. He was born October 7, 1952 in Leningrad Russia (now St. Petersburg). He developed an interest in sports as a young man. After graduating from Leningrad state university with a law degree in 1975, Putin began his career in the KGB as an intelligence officer stationed mainly in East Germany he held that position until 1990 retiring with the rank of lieutenant Colonel. Then we talked about Basher al-assad from Syria. Syria is an Authoritarian Regime. al-Assad rigs his elections. He was born September 11th 1965 and graduated from the medical school of Damarcus University in 1998 and started to work as a doctor in the army. In 1994, after his elder brother Bassel was killed in a car crash Bashar was recalled to Syria. He ordered mass crackdowns and Military sieges on Arab spring protestors leading to the Syrian civil war. Then President Faud Fasum in Iraq. Iraq has a parliamentary democracy. He was born in 1938 he is the son Sheikh Mulla Masun. He belonged to an established political dynasty with Muslim clerical links. Then we talked about Justin Tradeau. He rules Canada which is a parliamentary democracy, federation, constitutional monarchy. He was born on Christmas 1971. He supported liberal party at young age. He started the Kokanee Glacier Alpine campaign for winter sports.

Extra Credit

      Today in class we got another extra credit assignment. The assignment is to write a rap about things on the news during 2015. Then submit the rap in a contest. It has to be 12-16 lines long and include news stories. We watched a video of someone that made a rap a bout 2014. We were given the rest of the time off. We are all currently anxiously awaiting for the cast list to come out for the Adams Family. Hopefully it will be out soon.