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Stage One Chemistry A Issues Investigation – Water Dihydrogen monoxide, referred to as DHMO, is chemically represented as H2O, universally recognized as water. The consumption of dihydrogen monoxide, intentional or accidental, attributes to potential hazards: dependent on the extent of ingestion. Extreme ingestion provokes potential death upon inhalation of its liquid state, whilst moderate consumption contributes to excess urination, nausea and electrolyte imbalance. Dihydrogen monoxide…

negative feedback like carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. The more the atmospheric temperature rises the more water vapor increases. In the last century, the amount of carbon dioxide has increased significantly due to the burning of fossil fuels in…

The question of whether or not we should abandon Louisiana has been recently brought up due to the flooding in Baton Rouge killing at least 13 people and evacuating tens of thousands of people. This question has people on both sides of it that feel strongly either way. Louisiana has many reasons why it should and should not be abandoned. There are many people say that Louisiana should be abandoned. The storm should have never happened. According to the National Weather Service the chance of…

Located in southwestern British Columbia, Lower Fraser Valley extends from Delta to Hope and has a marine climate with moderate temperatures, long frost-free period and high average rainfall. The Lower Fraser Valley with rich and high quality soils contributes up to 62% of BC’s gross farm receipts and the agriculture land price has sharp increased to $4,113/acre (BC Agriculture of Food & Climate Action Initiative, 2015; Climate Action Initiative, 2015). However, agriculture contributes to 3.3%…

Oil conflicts has been caused by many reasons in many counties. Interstate conflicts, intrastate conflicts are two of the main oil conflicts happening around the world. As confusing it may sound, because they both sound fairly the same. Intrastate conflicts are issues happening within a state, another term for intrastate conflict would be civil conflict. For example, the American Civil war was a type of intrastate conflict, the whole war was in the United States and only involved American troops…

Homo sapiens are aerobic living organisms. Homo sapiens need oxygen to survive and reproduce. You are a homo sapiens. You need oxygen to survive. The only way in which there will be oxygen surrounding the face of the Earth, is by plants and other organisms converting carbon dioxide into oxygen during photosynthesis. The Amazon Rainforest is the largest rainforest left on the planet. This rainforest is responsible for producing 20+ percent of the oxygen on Earth (Taylor, 1). That is over 1/5 the…

include fuel, weather, topography. The interaction of these three legs and their changes in space and time along with fire determine fire behavior and characteristics. Fuel is extremely important to fire behavior. The fuel complex includes ground, surface, and crown fuels which all interact with environmental variables such as temperature and solar radiation. Relationships between fuel complexes on the terrain, size, and location are apart of the landscape level. Dead or live fuel, fuel moisture…

most debated subjects this century is the policy on climate change. Specifically about how to go about decreasing one of the leading components most impacted by society, carbon emissions. Carbon dioxide is emitted through the combustion of fossil fuels, which is the main source of power for many of society’s technology and methods of transportation. Due to the increase use of these technologies, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased to a dangerous level, changing Earth’s climate; in…

is very dependent on oil. we use about 93 million barrels of it a day for heating, plastic, asphalt, and transportation. Although we should primarily use renewable energy, oil is very energy dense and is easy to use. Even if we stopped using fossil fuels for energy, we would still need it for plastic which is in almost everything we use everyday. In 2008 it has been estimated the the arctic holds about 90 billion barrels of recoverable oil and enough natural gas to sustain us for about 15 years …

Raindrops break the speed limit Did you know that raindrops have speed limits of their own? Raindrops that are larger than 0.5 millimeters when going across fall with a terminal velocity of several meters per second, while smaller drops fall slower with a terminal velocity of less than one meter per second. Terminal Velocity is when friction cancels the downward pull of gravity. This means that the raindrops speed up and keep falling at a steady pace. Michael Larsen, an atmospheric…