Thursday, April 30, 2009

Where does Colorado Springs water come from?



Where does our very own water supply come from. 75% of our water comes from the areas of Aspen, Leadville, and Breckenridge - Colorado. Pipes carry this water down from the mountains to be stored in reservoirs like Rampart and Catamount. The other 25% of our water comes from local surface water sources and local ground water sources.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Ocean Pollution


http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/00116/carbondioxide.htm
This web site gave me most to all of the information that I needed to complete my carbon dioxide section.



http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/00116/garbagedumping.htm
I used this web site for all of the information that I got concerning Garbage
dumping and and how it effected the ocean.

http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/00116/toxicwaste.htm
This web site is the web site that I used to get the needed information on how to help fight against ocean pollution.This is specifically for toxic waste.

http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/00116/oilpollution.htm
This is the web site I used to get all of my information concerning the effects caused by oil pollution.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Saving our corral reefs


First, how can we help our reefs survive. Scientists predicted that if we keep this up then at least 70% of our reefs will be destroyed by 2050. to help you can stop careless dumping into the ocean. Decrease natural differences, and Anthropogenic disturbances. We will loose 70% of our oceanic reefs by 2050. The ocean would how ever slowly heal. And then we ca some what go back to what we were doing before. Just very small amounts of it.

Monday, April 13, 2009

The Penny Lab

Using a medicine dropper my class dropped some water on the top of a penny. But before we did this we estimated how many our partner would be able to put onto his or her penny. So then drop by drop we put water on to the tops of the pennies to see if our estimations were close. Since the penny has edges on the outsides it helps to confine more water than an object without edges. The water comes out and bulges away from the penny once the penny is completely covered. But once the water over flows all of the water will go, unless it is stopped by the edge of the penny.