༻✧Carbon Footprint Pledge👣

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       I pledge to do the following:

• Conserve energy every chance I get. 

• Conserve my water every chance I get.

• Use efficient light bulbs and turn off every chance I get.

• Only eat meat sometimes.
  
• Check labels and try to buy local food.
  
• Only buying what I need and not buying a bunch of things I like.
  
• Travel by plane less.
  
• To Compost and recycle more.
  
• Try to bike and walk every chance I get.|
  
• Live in a 1-2 bedroom house.

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Decomposing

Aim: 
To learn about the rate that different materials decompose. 

Hypothesis:

I think that the bananas will rott the fastest.
Materials:

1.   4x Test Tubes
2.   Banana
3.   Bread
4.   White Styrophone
5.   Paper
6.   Bung
7.   Test Tube Rack
8. Water

Steps:

1.   Gather your materials.
2.  Put the test tubes into the stand.
3.  Put the banana in test tube one, the bread and water in test tube two, etc.
4.  Take it back to our table.
5.  We wrote our names on a piece of paper and taped it to the test tube stand.
6.  Place the stand onto a surface where it won´t be touched.
7. Wait five weeks.

Findings:

TODAY	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	Yellow	-	-
Paper	Brown	-	-
Styrophone cup	White	-	-
Bread	Beige	-	-

3 weeks	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	Brown and a greenish colour	Changed colour and rotted	The banana went from a smallish yellow piece to a brown disgusting smelly mess.
Paper	Brown	nothing	Nothing changed about the paper, it was still brown and it looked the same.
Styrophone cup	white	nothing	Nothing changed about the styrophone cup, it was still white and it looked the same.
Bread	Green, black and white	Changed colour	The bread was a normal beige, white colour but it was slowly changing colour to green and black.

5 weeks	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	Green	Changed fully green	The banana became completely dark green and covered in mold.
Paper	brown	nothing	Nothing changed about the paper, it was still brown and it looked the same.
Styrophone cup	White	nothing	Nothing changed about the styrophone cup, it was still white and it looked the same.
Bread	white and brown	foam looking white stuff on top	The bread stayed the same colour but has foam looking white stuff over it.

Conclusion:

By the end of this the food was disgusting but it looked like the banana rotted the fastest even though the bread had water in the tube with it. It looked like the banana rotted fastest because by week three it had already started getting mold on it.

The Water Cycle in a bag ʕ •㉨• ʔ

AIM: TO LEARN ABOUT WATER ON EARTH.

Definition:

Scientific words:

• Evaporation. When water is heated by radiant energy it turns into water vapor.
• Transpiration. Evaporation from plants.
• Condensation. When water vapor cools, molecules join together and form clouds.
• Precipitation. When clouds get heavy the waters falls as rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
• Acidification: the action or process of making or becoming acidic.

THE WATER CYCLE SONG

THE WATER CYCLE EXPERIMENT

Bag 1: Normal Water cycle

Bag 2: Water cycle with CO2 added: like Oceans in climate change

Material:

• 2 x A4 clear zip-lock bags.
• 100m of water.
• 1 x vivid.
• Blue food colouring.
• 100m of soda water.
• 1 x Litmus paper.
• 1 x teaspoon of Baking Soda
• 2 x stripes of double-sided tape.

Steps:

1. Gather the materials listed above.
2. Using your vivid draw a picture of the water cycle on the bag.
3. Add the labels of what the parts of the water cycle are.
4. Add 100m of water to the bag.
5. Add 2 drops of blue food colouring to the water.
6. Zip up the bag.
7. Tape the bag to a window using double-sided tape.
8. Get your other bag.
9. Repeat the drawing steps onbag two.
10. Add 100m of soda water.
11. Add one teaspoon of baking soda.
12. Zip up the bag but leaving a small gap.
13. Put one strip of litmus paper in leaving it half in the bag and half out.
14. Make sure the zip lock is closed and securing the paper.
15. Tape the bag to the window next to bag one using double-sided tape.
16. Wait for a few days to weeks.
17. Watch as the condensation builds up.

Findings:

	The Water Cycle	Acid Water Cycle
Does it cycle?	Yes	Yes
Amount of Water	1	1
Acidity	0	1

Key: Water and acidity amount: 0 = none 

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1 = small 

2 = large 

Conclusion:

If you follow these steps you will be able to do the experiment successfully and replicate the water cycle process in controlled conditions

The Greenhouse Effect

✧༺♥༻∞The Greenhouse Effect experiment∞༺♥༻✧

AIM: To Look At Climate Change And The Greenhouse Effect.

Materials:

1. 1 x plastic bottle

2.1 x Teaspoon Baking Soda and Citric Acid

3. 1 x heat lamp

4 1 x Thermometer

5. 100ml of water

6. 1 x rubber bung

Procedure:

1. . Collect 2 bottles, 2 lamps and 2 thermometers from the teacher.

2. Set up bottles and lamps beside a PowerPoint on a flat surface.

3. Pour 100ml water and baking soda.

4. Start to record your findings taken from bottle thermometer. These must be every 5 minutes.

Findings: 

Minutes	Bottle 1: Water	Bottle 2: CO2 Gas
0	21	21
5	25	18
10	27	22
15	31	25
20	34	25
25	34	28
30	36	30
35	DNF	DNF
40
45
50

The Water Cycle

This week for Climate Chaos we had to cut out 10 hexagons and explain how each of them went together.

Water Cycle is connected to Transpiration because transpiration is a step of the Water Cycle.

Transpiration and Water Vapour are connected because they are all the action of water vapour going up.

Water Vapour and Evaporation are connected together because they are from water (Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Ponds) and the watering plants.

Water Vapour and Condensation are connected by when the water vapour rises it forms together to make clouds which is also part of the water cycle.

Evaporation and Condensation are connected because (evaporation) the water evaporates and rises and it clumps together to make clouds (condensation).

Condensation and Hurricanes are connected because they both form.

Hurricanes and Climate Change is connected because Hurricanes can change the climate and the surface of the Earth which can lead to disrupting weather patterns.

Water Vapour and Precipitation are connected because water vapour goes up into the clouds

Wind Power

Definitions:

1. Anemometer:
2. Beaufort wind scale:

MATERIALS

1. Skewers  
2. Vivid  
3. Tape  
4. Pencil
5. Pin  
6. Plastic lid thing

STEPS

1. Gather all the materials.
2. Tape the plastic lids to each side of the skewers.
3. Tape the skewers together.
4. Then, place the skewers onto the eraser.
5.  Put the pin through the skewers and eraser.

Group Investigation.

Groups size: 5 
Roles:

• Timekeeper ( watch)

• Counter

• Recorder ( Chromebook or refill )

• Anemometer Manager ( Anemometer)

• Wind Manager

Instructions:

• Go to the measuring place and set up your wind gauge.
• Make sure everyone in your group is ready to start their roles.
• Record how many times it spins and record it in the table below.
• Count the number of spins in 15 seconds.
• Record it on your chart.

FINDINGS

	Place name on school grounds	Number of Spins in 15 seconds
1.	Field	0
2.	Old J Block site	0
3.	Grass hill in quad	0
4.	Tennis Court gate	0

CONCLUSION:

I think that there was no wind on the field because most of the people in our group were crowding around the wind gauge.

I think there was no wind at the olf j block site because there was a building right next to it making it so there was less wind.

I think that there was no wind on the grass hill because it was surrounded by buildings with not a lot of gaps, even though it was higher up, I think the buildings were blocking some of the wind, as well as some of the people in our group crowding it.

I think that there were trees around it as well as people crowding it and a fence.

My Investigation on Climate Change

ACIDIFICATION

DEFINITION:

When there are too many chemicals and carbons in the air which turns the water acidic.

What is happening to the oceans?

• The chemicals and carbon are making the water acidic. 
• It's making the ph levels in the water to high and turning it into a weak acid.

What does this do to shellfish?

• It makes it more difficult for them to grow their shells.
• Their shells become thinner and grow slower, they eventually die.

HOW DOES CLIMATE CHANGE CONTRIBUTE TO THE ACIDIFICATION OF OUR OCEANS?

The carbon in the air dissolves into the surface fo the waters. Then the remaining carbon dioxide gets into the water cycle because of the condensation and then goes into the clouds, it then starts to rain and the water with the carbon turns into acid water and then that water ends up in the waters. 

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DEFORESTATION

DEFINITION: When large amounts of trees are being cut down fast and they are not being replaced

What are trees used for?

Trees are used for making houses, making stationery, books, firewood, paper, etc.

HOW DOES DEFORESTATION AFFECT THE CLIMATE?

Deforestation affects the climate by messing up the water cycle. It messes the water cycle because the rain doesn't get absorbed and it just sits on the ground causing the areas to turn to swamps and because trees aren't absorbing the water there are fewer clouds so less rain which means the land isn't getting the water it needs. Humans breathe in oxygen and release's carbon dioxide, the trees do the opposite, and that's called photosynthesis. If there are fewer trees there is less oxygen and more carbon dioxide that can be absorbed.

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ICECAP MELT

DEFINITION: The Icecaps melting.

If all the ice melted what would happen?

If all the ice melted the sea levels would rise causing around 2 billion people to have to move. All the water would become less salty and it would turn into freshwater seeing as 70% of the freshwater on earth is in the ice in Antartica. All the saltwater animals and coral would die due to them being used to saltwater not freshwater.

HOW DOES ICECAP MELT AFFECT CLIMATE CHANGE?

It would affect climate change by the water levels rising meaning there is less land and people would have to rebuild meaning fewer trees, less oxygen and less sea life. 

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WATER VAPOUR

DEFINITION:

HOW DOES  WATER VAPOUR AND EVAPORATION CONTRIBUTE TO CLIMATE CHANGE? 

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