Climate Inquiry

1.  Climate is like the average temperature of weather of an area or location over a long period of time.  Some people think that weather and climate are the same thing, but really they aren't.  weather is the events that happen in an area, and climate helps to explain the weather that we experience.  For example if you were to look out the window and  examine what it's like outside for one day you would know the weather, but if you were to look out the window for many weeks or months in a row and examine the weather then you would have the climate of the location.

Weather vs. Climate
Weather Eye
http://weathereye.kgan.com/cadet/climate/climate_vs.html
2007

2. Climate change is the seasonals changes that take place in an area over a long period of time.  Ecosystems are essentially created by the climate changes that take place in an area.  Also humen economies and cultures depend on the climate changes that take place in an area.  Because so many things like the way that we live our lives is linked and related to climate, what we do depends on the climate change that takes place.

What is climate change?
Department of Ecology
 http://www.ecy.wa.gov/climatechange/whatis.htm
2010

Sewer Treatment Blog

At the sewer treatment plant yesterday the man walked us through the process of treating the water.  He told us how the water entered the plant, and that the first biuling it goes through is the first biulding you see when you enter the area.  Then from there it goes to an area where it is treated.  The water goes through a very long cycle before it is entered into the river.  The water sewer treatment plant in our town has a secondary cleaning system, which isn't how it was origanally biult, but was added on.  Also i learned that the big tank that they have will fill up in about twelve ours if it needs to be used.  He also showed us the lab that they use to test the water, and do any other tests that need to be ran at the plant.
 I thought that it was cool that we all got to go and recycle things.  For me it wasn't the first time, because my family recycles plastic, aluminum, glass, paper and stirofoam.  On top of that we also have our own compost bin at our house, so we're pretty much an eco-friendly family.

City Discussion

    Mrs. Byerly came to talk to us about the cities plan for the way that all of the water is going to systematically work.  She told us about what the city was doing to the storm water, which was that they were making big well like things in a couple of different parts of the city that all of the water will collect in and the the city will have to go and empty every once and a while.  The city made it so that the storm water wouldn't build up in the street and made it so that it was less likely to flood the island.  This move by the city will improve the overall water quality of the river water by keeping less rail water from running into the water that has already been through the town.  This will improve the quality of the test that my group is doing by giving us cleaner water to test intern giving us a better BOD, meaning that there will be more oxygen in the water.  I learned from the talk that although main street was being opened back up that they were now going to close us some of hall street, because they need to tear that up and do work on it.  My bio bottle that i am working on is doing really good, i have three different sunflowers growing really quickly, and that look really healthy also.  For my groups action project i am getting the materials to build a compost bin and then we're going to do a two week trial in the cafeteria's for composting.  We have made it pretty far in our power point i think, with help of the action plan paper.