Vertical Structure of the Atmosphere

Questions:

1.Why are the four major layers of the atmosphere separated where they are?

2.What increases the temperature in the stratosphere?

3.Can planes fly in the mesosphere?why or why not?

4.On what does the temperature in the thermosphere depend?

Answers:

1.They are separated because of their different temperatures.

2.The high concentration of ozone in the stratosphere.

3.No.Because there is not enough oxygen to breathe.

4.It depends on the ultra violet radiation that the oxygen absorbs.

The Nitrogen Cycle

Discussion Questions:

1.The atmosphere is 80% nitrogen:why do you think plants and animals can't use nitrogen as it is found in the atmosphere?

2.Explain what is meant by nitrogen fixation?

3.What is the role of bacteria in the nitrogen cycle?

4.why don't legumes need nitrogen-containing fertilizer?

5.Why is nitrogen so important for living things?

6.What are the processes involved in the nitrogen cycle?

Answers:

1.Because most nitrogen is found as a gas.

2.Nitrogen fixation occurs when bacteria convert nitrogen gas into organic compounds that living organisms can take up.

3.The bacteria are the ones responsible for converting nitrogen gas into ammonium ions and convert ammonia from dead animal excretions.
4.Because legumes have bacteria living in their roots which can fix nitrogen.
5.Because it is an essential element for life and it is important for photosynthesis to occur.
6.Nitrogen fixation, ammonification, nitrification, denitrification, assimilation.

Energy Flow

Energy Flow Web

Questions:

1.Where do plant's get the energy they need to grow?

2.What do plant's use the sun's energy to manufacture?

3.What plant's use most of their energy for?

4.How much of the energy that the plant captures through photosynthesis

 ends up stored as starch in the kernel?

5.For what does the cow use the energy from the corn?

6.how much energy stored in the corn gets passed on to you?

7.For what do use the energy in the burgers?

8.How wood eating more plant's help us better feed the many people in the world?

9. What else besides energy do we get from plant's and animal's?when we eat them?

Answers:

1.Plant's get most of their energy from the sun.

2.Sugars from water and carbon dioxide.

3.Plants use most of their energy for photosynthesis.

4.10% of the energy ends up as starch in the kernel.

5.To produce and Power its Muscle cells and to take care of it's needs.

6.325 calories gets passed on to you.

7.To do work.

8.Because you lose 90% of the captured solar energy by passing it through animals.

9.Vitamins, minerals, and protein which help people grow healthy.

The Lorax

The Lorax

 Reflection Questions:

1.What did the Once-ler do to upset the balance in this ecosystem?

2.What effect did his business have on the living things in the ecosystem?

3.What effect did his business have on the water and air in the ecosystem? 

How did this affect the living things?

4.What is the moral of the story?

Reflection answers:

1.The Once-ler chopped all of the trees down.

2.The animals lost their natural habitat.

3.The air and water got polluted.the animals in the ecosystem

 were forced to leave in search of a better place to live.

4.Plant, Protect, and Preserve the trees to have a healthy environment.

Computer Science is practiced by mathematicians, scientists and engineers. Mathematics, the origins of Computer Science, provides reason and logic.

                                 Computer science is a discipline that spans theory and practice. It requires thinking both in abstract terms and in concrete terms. The practical side of computing can be seen everywhere. Nowadays, practically everyone is a computer user, and many people are even computer programmers. Getting computers to do what you want them to do requires intensive hands-on experience. But computer science can be seen on a higher level, as a science of problem solving.