Hi Mr. Wood,
This is Shannon from your period 6 class. I am going to answer the last two questions that I didn't answer from your May 5th journal, the questions from your May 10th jounal and the quiz of course. First, I want to say congratulations to your daughter for getting nominated for the Tower Awards at Huntington Beach High School. Your dodgeball team also won the other day too. I liked learing about the caribou. I can't believe their hairs are hollow! Oxen can survive pretty extreme temperatures! It was fun talking to you on Monday. You said the kids at the local school were going to help measure some of the carbon in your experiment. Did you do that yet? If so, how did it go?
I will answer the May 5th jounal first. Sea level rising will affect people because they will have to move farther inland, but I do not think it could kill people. If the the sea level keeps rising though and takes over all of the land, people will have no where to go and will not survive unless we lived on boats. If the sea water covers up roads we will have to build different transportation routes. Sea levels rising is due to climate warming. To stop this from happening, we have to stop releasing carbons, aerosol sprays and CFC's into the atomosphere. When we do this, the O Zone layer deteriorates, letting more ultra violet rays in, making the temperature hotter which rises sea levels.
Now I will answer the questions from the May 10th journal. I think our climate was hotter than usual and now we are going through a period that won't be as hot and a little cooler. It was cool here the past couple of days too. I also do think that a few wet or dry spells won't influence our climate that much, it is just the way the climate works. Those are my two perspectives. For the fly, I just think it is trying to eat the red things on the willow plant. They could possibly be pollen or nectar. I don't think the two organisms are helping eachother because the willow tree probably doesn't want any insect eating away at it. It could also just be a cycle of what the plants and insects do to stay alive.
Here is the answer to the quiz: 1. The amount of CO2 the graph is showing is 387 parts per million because it is between 386 and 388 parts per million.
The data was collected at 3:00. I can tell because the sun is highest in the day at 2:00, as you said in past journals, so when the sun drops, just the small bit, the carbon starts to rise and gets higher and higher until the sun comes back out again.
In two more hours the carbon parts per million will move up. Once the sun goes down after it reaches the highest point in the sky, carbon rises as it gets later and later because the plant can't take in carbon if the sunlight is not there.
Thanks Mr. Wood! Hope this answers what you want! -Shannon