Rammed earth

For many years people believed that the Polar Bear would be the first species that goes extinct due to climate change, however that may not be the case. The American Pika lives in the rocky mountain areas surrounding both the U.S and Canada. This distant cousin of the rabbit lives at elevations between 8,000 and 13,000 feet, and it makes its home in rock piles and slides. The reason why this creature suffers so much due to climate change is that of how they originally adapted to their…

If an arms race in outer space were to occur the result could be catastrophic. Space is the next frontier, multiple countries are moving forward with space exploration. However some countries are putting their research towards space weapons. This is bad because it could cause a space weapons race. A space weapon is considered different things among different countries. What is agreed however is that a space weapon can be harmful in some way. Space debris is a huge problem in space. Space…

A) The Earth’s early atmosphere had no oxygen and was made mostly of nitrogen, with some carbon dioxide, water vapour and hydrogen compounds such as methane and ammonia. Within million of years life evolved in the oceans. 3.2 billion years ago photosynthesis had evolved with the first oxygen producing cyanobacteria, similar to today’s blue-green algae. At first, the oxygen given off simply reacted with the rocks, but gradually it built up in the oceans and started to bubble out into the…

of the many ways that investing in the space program is it could pay off in the long run. They are finding places that the human population could possibly move to in the future in case earth is in jeopardy in someway. America and other places all around the world are also finding out ways to mine asteroid incase earth runs out of resources. Those are just a few ways that the space program could pay off in the future. Another reason that the space program should be invest in is that space is a…

bounds of gravity and left the safety of our home, the Earth to begin exploring the cosmos. The transition to a new form of pioneering is taking place, as the Earth has been explored end to end and is now occupied by humans on every corner there is only one place left to go. The limitless vastness and marvel of space is where the inevitable future of humans must take place as bound to our rock we will inevitably stagnate and disappear. As Earth civilization advances into the 21st century we move…

geology. Felsic rocks such as granite, are common in subduction zones on Earth (Wray et al., 2013, 1013). However, in Mars, felsic rocks are nonexistent and only contain mafic rocks. Researcher James Wray et al., (2013) argued that due to the lack evidence of plate tectonics and early forms of magma have been altered by natural causes or buried subsequently, felsic rocks were never present on Mars.…

In luge, many tracks lack start houses. Athletes are left in the cold wearing paper-thin suits, under which are only t-shirts and tight fitting shorts. When we get cold, we get stiff. This results in a struggle to drive our sleds properly, leading to a higher chance of crashing. Frustrat-ingly, we’re unable to wear anything thicker underneath our suits because anything too thick will lead to us being far less aerodynamic, and, in consequence, making us slower. To solve this dilemma, I came up…

hand with each other.  In my opinion, climate change is human caused. It is just essentially pollution. We are polluting the world by burning fossil fuels and polluting our waters with trash. At the same time, I believe it is also environmental. The Earth does warm and cool naturally, but when the temperature is affecting live organisms like the Great Barrier Reef, it gets a little bit difficult to…

The Inner Core, Outer Core, Mantle, Asthenosphere, and Lithosphere, or, as more colloquially known, the five layers of the Earth. Although each layer is important, each living thing resides on the Lithosphere, which happens to rest on the Asthenosphere, the upper part of the Mantle. Forces caused by these two layers both contribute to the theory of Plate Tectonics, which happens to be interconnected to Earthquakes and Volcanoes. Without Plate Tectonics, the other two occurrences simply cannot…

We researched Pluto’s orbit, physical properties, and history to give us a broad understanding of what Pluto is like and to see if a mission to Pluto would be feasible and beneficial to NASA. We found that Pluto has a unique orbit compared to other planets — it is both extremely elliptical and sometimes crosses Neptune's orbit. Pluto is also incredibly small and cold. It contains ice on it’s surface and was only discovered about 100 years ago. Because of what I learned, I believe that It would…