Using the Winds - Sailing Trip

1st
Trip Itinerary and approximate latitude: Havana 20' N to London 50' N, 5 days
Travel time: 9 days
Direction traveling:Northeast
Were you successful? yes
How many attempts? 2
How were you successful? by following the direction of the winds; I took a fairly straight path
What winds did you take advantage of or compete with during your travel? prevailing westerlies
2nd
Trip Itinerary and approximate latitude: San Fransisco 45' N to Sydney 20' S, 13 days
Travel time: 13 days
Direction traveling: Southwest
Were you successful? yes
How many attempts? 1
How were you successful? followed the direction of the winds; I took a fairly straight path
What winds did you take advantage of or compete with during your travel? trade winds
3rd

Trip Itinerary and approximate latitude: Lima, Peru 10' S to Cape Town, South Africa 35' S, 15 days
Travel time: 15 days
Direction traveling: South than East
Were you successful? Yes
How many attempts? 5
How were you successful? I followed the winds and traveled around Africa in order to travel to Cape Town
What winds did you take advantage of or compete with during your travel? Prevailing winds

Atmospheric Factors Affecting Climate

Click below to view my paper:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcgh367k_28gmdb9vgt

The Ozone

The ozone layer is very important to the needs of living things. Is the ozone a good thing or a bad thing. It all depends on where the ozone you are examining. In some places the ozone can protect from harmful things but in other places it can harm them. With the ozone layer in the atmosphere the UV rays are blocked stopping the harmful rays to not enter father into the atmosphere to reach Earth's surface. With the depletion of the ozone layer the temperatures will start to rise, UV rays will enter the atmosphere and UV rays will hit Earth's surface, along with other damaging effects; like the animals loosing their habitats.The ozone is made up of three molecules that are very important to all living things everywhere on Earth. The depletion of the ozone layer will become a serious problem, unless scientists can find a way to decrease the depletion rates. Earth's atmosphere has already lost a lot of its ozone and it will still get worse.

Greenhouse Effect

The greenhouse effect is the way that the atmosphere keeps the temeratures suitable for things to live. With the greenhous effect the Sun's thermal energy enters the atmoshere but it does not escape. Meaning that the atmoshere is able to trap the warm heat in the atmoshere and uses it to keep Earth suitably warm. Radiation is the primary way that the air is heated. The atmosphere holds onto that radiated air and then r-radiates the air at night when the sun isn't able to radiate it itself. The ozone is a major part in the greenhouse effect. With the depletion of the ozone layer the atmosphere will have a harder time controling the temperature. Deadly radiation waves will enter Earth's atmosphere and then that will cause the temperature to get warmer and warmer, causing a lot of damage throught the world.

Everyone should be concerned about the depletion of the ozone and losing the greenhouse effect. The process of losing these things are very slow but they do cause a lot of damage. And it has already damaged things; polor bears and other arctic animals are already suffering, losing their habitat, and dying off slowly but constently. On top of scientists, the rest of the world's people sould be concerned because it will catch up with their future (life, future family, etc.) darasticly.

Acid Rain

Define Issue:
Acid rain is rain that contains more acid than normal.

List causes:
-Burning of coal
-Pollution
-Rain, sleet, snow, fog, & dry particles carrying nitrogen oxide & sulfur oxide.

Explain Consequences:
-Damaged buildings & statues
-Damanged lakes & ponds
-Plants, amphibians, fish, & insects die

Contribute solutions to the problem:
-Burn less coal
-Use low-sulfur coal
-Use scrubbers(remove most sulfur oxides in air)