Modified atmosphere

As humans, we never want to stop advancing. We will always look for the next bigger, better, and more efficient way of doing something, which has allowed us to create things such as planes, automobiles, and factories. While these inventions seem to have improved our lives, we see that the creation of this technology has greatly hurt the Earth as well as ourselves when looking at the bigger picture. Albert Einstein himself said that, “all of our exalted technological progress, civilization for…

The deciduous forests in Canada are temperate, and usually appear between the 25 and 50 north parallel. They consist mainly of hardwood and broadleaf trees, which in turn, consist of Maple, Oak, Beech, eand Elm tres. Deciduous Forests occupy a relatively small area of Canada, and have mild climates, with 750-1500 mm of rainfall a year, and a mean temperature of 10 degrees celsius. Deciduous forests are also one of the few forests that do go through 4 seasons. Raccons are found here, as well as…

glaciers were also able to further reflect out any radiation, leading to the initial decreasing in temperature as seen in negative feedback loops. However, towards the end of the Little Ice Age in the mid 1800’s, there was more radiation entering the atmosphere due to the new change in orbit and rotation of the Earth. This caused the albedo effect, where the radiation melted the snow off of the glaciers, whihc led to an increase in ocean levels,, which then absorbed more heat because of their…

With global warming being a large contributing factor, frequency of wildfires in the Western United States is increasing and there will be longer fire seasons. When early spring runoff begins earlier on, summer heat increases at a faster rate and last longer going into fall. The Western forest becomes very dry and more susceptible to fires within a month after snowmelt, witch is melting about 1 to 4 weeks earlier than it used to 50 years ago. Summertime temperatures in the area are expected to…

(google definition, 2015) Global warming is the increase of the Earth’s surface temperature caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, CFCs, and other pollutants. The Earth is getting warmer because people are adding heat, trapping gases to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, which including the coal, oil, and natural gases. Scientists have predicted that in the future, climate change would cause loss of sea ice, accelerated sea level rise, and more extreme…

The tides crash along the coast. Season fade into one another. The moon casually changes its position on a daily bases. These are some of the things that we experience everyday, but did you know all this happens because of the moon, sun, and Earth? As the Earth rotates and revolves, everything changes as we see it. The tides increase and decrease every six hours, and sometimes, they become neap and spring tides due to the Earth, sun, and moon’s positioning. The seasons can change depending on…

Finding a source of water on Mars will be an implication of prolonged human exploration of the planet. The obvious answer would be to send it there beforehand, but that is not feasible. Water is very heavy and a manned exploration zone would need a lot of it, which develops a problem. There are many proposed solutions, including the decomposition of the hydrazine, or spent rocket fuel. This is efficient because of the practicality of the dual usage of the fuel and using the excess hydrogen gas…

The Arctic is very sensitive to changes in the Earth system's climate. During the Cenozoic era, 65 million years ago (Ma) to the present, the Arctic has undergone a transition in extremes from the ice-free greenhouse conditions of the late Paleocene and early Eocene epochs, approximately 55–48 Ma, to the icehouse conditions of the Quaternary, culminating in the extensive continental ice sheets and Arctic Ocean sea ice of the Last Glacial Maximum, approximately 24–20 ka (Moran et al. 2006). (To…

The reading states that dinosaurs are endotherms and provides three reasons of support. In contrast, the professor explains that scientist have serious problems regarding this issue and mentions that it was not proved, and repudiates each of the author's reasons. Fisrt, the article claims that dinosaurs fossils have been found in polar regions which just endotherms can live. Conversely, the speaker refutes this point by imaprting that the area where dinosaurs been was warmer than today. He…

You could only see half her face; her light brown hair covered the other half. She sat there crying from dawn to dusk. The busy world going throughout their day while only glimpsing her. She had an aura about her that made her invisible to most, maybe it was the way she dressed. No one knew why though, those of us who noticed her, but everyone knew she would be there the same day, every year. Everyone tried to comfort her or help and she never responded to them. The crimson sky would finally…