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4/28/2019

Us Saving the Earth from Us

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How to save the planet:

Identify bad habits
Explore options
Learn Bio-remediation
Encourage any efforts to help
Motivate anyone who is trying to help
Celebrate every success story, every kind gesture, no matter how small

Hope for the best, hope for the birth of compassion and empathy... while you take direct and CONSISTENT action

Where to start:

  • Do not blame any demographic for the destruction of the planet, many 90 year olds are helping​
  • Do not blame the rich, or politicians, they did not feel safe speaking up
  • Reduce demand for Palm Oil
  • Reduce consumption of GMOs: especially corn and sugar from sugar beets, if the sugar is not from sugar cane it is probably from sugar beets
  • Reduce demand for imported food, produce local food
  • Buy less items you do not need
  • ​Buy items for their quality, not cheap fashion that will fall apart quickly
  • Normalize having less things
  • Reduce demand for drugs
  • Reduce demand for alcohol, it has glyphosate from GMOs. Create new options.
  • Reduce demand for disposable packaging
  • Carry a camping fork and spoon
  • Use fabric reusable shopping bags
  • Refill BPA Free water bottles
  • Grow plants, gardens, edible forests, vertical farms, look for dought resistant crops
  • Learn herbalism to prevent illness that needs medical attention
  • Question ingredients in vaccines, but do not be an antivaxxer
  • Get a small solar panel for charging phones, computers or speakers
  • Solar fans
  • Check insulation in homes for efficiency 
  • Eat everything you buy, no wasted food
  • Reduce meat and dairy consumption

With public funding and policy:

  • Allow innovation to thrive 
  • Solar power
  • Carbon Trapping Plants
  • Reduction in support for fossil fuels
  • Support for Electric Planes- Aerobus
  • Support for ocean wave electricity production: EcoWave
  • No more Fracking or pipelines (they spill)
  • Test water near fracking regions for contaminants
  • Ensure that cost of living is in line with wages
  • Enforce consequences for raping and killing so public transportation and walking can be safer
  • ​Be kind to all people and consider all human beings people
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Layers of the Earth:

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The Earth is composed of several layers.
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  • Crust
  • Upper Mantle
  • Lower Mantle
  • Convection Currents.
  • Core (Inner and Outer)

Many geologists believe that as the Earth cooled the heavier, denser materials sank to the center and the lighter materials rose to the top. Because of this, the crust is made of the lightest materials (rock- basalts and granites) and the core consists of heavy metals (nickel and iron).

The crust is made up of different types of rocks: igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks. ​

The rocky surface layer of Earth, called the crust, is made up of mostly oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, calcium, sodium, potassium and magnesium.

The upper part of the mantle is made up of peridotite, a rock denser than rocks common in the 
crust.

The 
crust of the Earth is of two distinctive types:
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  • Oceanic: 5 km (3 mi) to 10 km (6 mi) thick and composed primarily of denser, more mafic rocks, such as basalt, diabase, and gabbro.
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  • ​Continental: 30 km (20 mi) to 50 km (30 mi) thick and mostly composed of less dense, more felsic rocks, such as granite.

The crust and the upper mantle make up the lithosphere.
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​Under the Crust:
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Below the crust is the mantle.

The 
mantle is the mostly-solid bulk of Earth's interior.

​The 
mantle lies between Earth's dense, super-heated core and its thin outer layer, the crust. The mantle is about 2,900 kilometers (1,802 miles) thick, and makes up a whopping 84% of Earth's total volume.

Earth's mantle, is made up of rock containing silicon, iron, magnesium, aluminum, oxygen and other minerals. 

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Magma: the molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed.
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https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/mantle/
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​The Core:

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The outer core of the Earth is a liquid layer about 2,260 kilometers thick.

​It is made of iron and nickel. This is above the Earth's 
solid inner core and below the mantle. Its outer boundary is 2,890 km (1,800 mi) beneath the Earth's surface.



​http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/earths-layers-lesson-1
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http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/58-What-is-Earth-made-of-
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WHat is on the earth's crust?


​Lithosphere: 
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  • Tectonic Plates​
  • Continents
  • Mountains
  • Volcanoes
    • Lava

Hydrosphere, Bodies of Water:
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  • ​Oceans
  • Lakes
  • Rivers
  • Glaciers
  • Ground water
  • Polar ice caps
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​NASA Satellite Photos Show Polluted Rivers Dumping Into The Carolina Coast

Most of this is soil, it shows us how rivers meet oceans

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/09/26/nasa-satellite-photos-show-polluted-rivers-dumping-into-the-carolina-coast/#19c1dda37977

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​https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article218953265.html
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types of environments/ biomes for living beings


Biomes

  • Coniferous Forest: Coniferous-evergreen trees (trees that produce cones and needles; some needles remain on the trees all year long): Canada, Europe, Asia, and the United States.
 
  • Temperate Deciduous Forest: Broadleaf trees (oaks, maples, beeches), shrubs, perennial herbs, and mosses: Eastern United States, Canada, Europe, China, and Japan
 
  • Desert: Cacti, small bushes, short grasses: Between 15° and 35° latitude (North and South of the equator); examples are Mojave, Sonoran, Chihuahua, and Great Basin (North America); Sahara (Africa); Negev (Middle East); and Gobi (Asia)
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  • Grassland: Grasses (prairie clover, salvia, oats, wheat, barley, coneflowers): Found on every continent except Antarctica
 
  • Rainforest: Vines, palm trees, orchids, ferns: Between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn
 
  • Shrubland: Aromatic herbs (sage, rosemary, thyme, oregano), shrubs, acacia, chamise, grasses: West coastal regions between 30° and 40° North and South latitude
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  • Tundra: Almost no trees due to short growing season and permafrost; lichens, mosses, grasses, sedges, shrubs: Regions south of the ice caps of the Arctic and extending across North America, Europe, and Siberia (high mountain tops)
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https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/experiments/biome
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Habitat loss: deforestation


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https://news.mongabay.com/2015/04/deforestation-fronts-revealed/
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South America
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​https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Land-use-divisions-in-the-Legal-Amazon-see-details-in-Appendix-I-on-methodology_fig3_244268885

How deforestation creeps into the forest
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​https://www.bu.edu/research/articles/satellite-maps-deforestation/

Forests are cleared to grow coca
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​https://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/interactives-extras/maps/map-colombia-cocaine-and-cash-colombia/536/

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R41215.pdf
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https://impakter.com/cocaine-hidden-cost-2/
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​https://www.businessinsider.com/16-maps-of-drug-flow-into-the-united-states-2012-7#most-of-the-drugs-that-enter-the-us-come-from-central-and-south-america-1


https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140130-drug-trafficking-deforestation-central-america-environment-policy-reform/


Palm Oil Deforestation:
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​https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0159668

https://news.mongabay.com/2016/12/indonesias-rich-list-stacked-with-palm-oil-billionaires/



​Planet Earth Systems:


http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/earths-sytems



Who lives there:


Plants

Animals

Bacteria

​Fungi
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how we have covered biomes THROUGHOUT class


Forest:

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http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/week-of-1029-to-1102-forest-biology
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http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/week-of-115-to-119-forest-animals-and-arthropods
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http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/week-of-115-to-119-forest-animals-and-arthropods
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http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/week-of-1112-to-1116-forest-mammals-and-reptiles
Turtles: http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/dont-forget-about-the-turtles

Desert:

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http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/1015-to-1019-desert-biology
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http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/week-of-1022-to-1026-desert-animals

Who lives in the Tundra?

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http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/week-of-1210-to-1214-ocean-bio
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http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/week-of-1217-arctic-and-winter

The Ocean Land Connection:

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/week-of-115-to-119-forest-animals-and-arthropods

Ocean Biology:

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/week-of-1210-to-1214-ocean-bio
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Migration Biology:
http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/migration-biology

Deep Sea Mining and Extremophiles in Deep Sea Vents

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http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/110-life-in-all-the-places

biological systems


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http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/types-of-life
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http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/biological-systems

Energy from Food:
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http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/week-of-september-4-to-september-7-energy-from-food
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Energy Flow Within a System:

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/week-of-august-27-to-august-31-energy-flow

Matter and Energy:

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/matter-and-energy


Molecules to Organisms:

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/molecules-to-organisms


Seasons:

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/seasons



Symbiosis:


​Mathematical Patterns in Nature: 


dna replication


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​http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/week-of-august-20-to-august-24-mitosis-meiosis

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​http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/week-of-august-13-to-17

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/inheritancegenetics
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Organelles:

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/week-august-6-to-august-10


Human Genetics:

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/january-15th-2019


Types of Cells:

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/types-of-cells



population ecology


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http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/inheritancegenetics

Interdependence of Organisms:

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/interdependence-of-organisms


Population Ecology:

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/population-ecology


About the Bees:

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/bees


Human Genetics: 

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/january-15th-2019
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Earth and human activity



​NGSS Standards: 
​https://www.nextgenscience.org/dci-arrangement/ms-ess3-earth-and-human-activity

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​Sustainability Ideas:

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/sustainability-ideas


Environment and Food:

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/future-of-food
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Carbon Cycles:

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/what-is-really-going-on


Sustainable Energy:

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/sustainable-energy


Greenhouse Effect:

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/global-patterns-and-cycles



list of some of the unhealthy human activities



​Ocean Acidification: 


Air Pollution:
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ASARCO:


Cows:


​Plastic in the Ocean:


Landfills:


Ocean Dumping:

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https://www.euronews.com/2018/04/20/what-plastic-objects-cause-the-most-waste-in-the-sea-

​https://www.cnn.com/2015/02/12/world/ocean-trash-pollution/index.html
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Great Pacific Garbage Patch:


Fish Kill:
​Some of the causes:  Pollutants PH of 5 or Below, Temperature Change



​Cruise Ships:


Dumping Nuclear Waste in the Ocean:



Dumping Trash in the Amazon:


Oil Spills:


Genetic Engineering:

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​http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/week-of-924-to-928-how-we-know-earth
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​ABC News Coverage:


laws allow publicly funded research to benefit private corporations: Bayh-Dole Act of 1980


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act

​https://www.upcounsel.com/bayh-dole-act

​If you work for a university and discover something, the invention belongs to the university.

​The research project is usually funded by a private corporation who will receive the patent.  The researchers rarely know this, they are told that their work will benefit the greater good and solve of humanity's problems. 

export economy



People Migrate for a Better Life because Corporate Interest is Interested in Enslaving them...
​even though they have been living well in the region for over ten thousand years
​

Difficulties faced by people who agree to work for the banana plantations:


​
Banana News:

Dole's 90-year-old CEO offers to take company private

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dolefoods-offer/doles-90-year-old-ceo-offers-to-take-company-private-idUSBRE95A0D520130611

Dole at Forefront of Trade Battle To Aid Donor's Banana Empire

​https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/05/us/dole-at-forefront-of-trade-battle-to-aid-donor-s-banana-empire.html


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Banana Republics
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https://people.uwec.edu/ivogeler/w111/banana.htm

what is helping? Reducing waste:



​https://theecologist.org/2019/apr/03/san-francisco-bans-sale-plastic-bottles


renewable energy



​Article:
A Genius First-of-Its-Kind Device Has Created Electricity From Snowfall
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ocean cleaning



forest restoration



mycoremediation and bioremediation



what is helping? Innovation:



soil building, soil nurturing 



Sir David Attenborough



Greta Thunberg



Flammable Frozen Lakes




Article: 

US refuses to sign declaration protecting the Arctic because it references climate change



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sample test questions


​A species of insect will most likely go extinct as a result of which of the following changes to its environment?

A. The introduction of a toxic pollutant to the entire range of the species

B. The separation of the population into two geographic regions

C. The gradual replacement of its primary food plant by a related species

D. Climate change that extends the period of its reproductive activity


Species are lost from Amazon rainforests as deforestation causes habitat loss.
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​The largest reduction in deforestation would result by significantly reducing the consumption of which of the following?

A. Crops

B. Lumber

C. Metals

D. Beef


The graph provided shows data for forest habitat size and diversity of bird species for several habitats. The negative effects of habitat loss on diversity is observable as a trend in the data points.
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​Which of the highlighted data points indicates a location where efforts by humans to counteract the negative effect of habitat loss have been successful?

A. A

B. B

C. C

D. D

The graph provided shows how global biodiversity has changed over geologic time.
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​The greatest loss in biodiversity in the history of Earth occurred at the end of which period?

A. Ordovician

B. Devonian

C. Permian

D. Triassic

​The high rate of extinction of species in an ecosystem experiencing rapid change is offered as evidence that change to an ecosystem causes extinction. In order to adequately evaluate this claim, what additional data would be most helpful?

A. The kinds of environmental change that the ecosystem is experiencing

B. The amount of influence humans have on the changes to the ecosystem

C. The extinction rates in similar ecosystems not experiencing changes

D. The kinds of adaptations that allow species to survive in the ecosystem
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anatomy and physiology


Types of Cells:

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/types-of-cells

Immune System:


http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/immune-system


Nervous System:

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/nervous-system-health


Medical Procedures:

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/medical-procedures


Organ Systems:

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/organ-systems


http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/activity-drawing-and-naming-our-organs
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http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/more-on-the-systems-of-systems
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http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/the-other-half-of-the-systems
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Fall Semester Final


What we knew by Winter Break:

​http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/welcome-back-from-winter-break

​http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/biology-final


Terminology covered by August:

http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/terminology-until-now
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what is ngss?


http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/ngss
https://www.nextgenscience.org/search-standards

reflecting on educational philosophy


http://www.almadartebio.org/biology-page/educational-philosophy

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