The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge One of the United State’s biggest problems at the moment is the issue of natural resources. The United States is highly dependent on foreign nations to provide it with many of their natural energies, mainly speaking of oil. America has many areas of land that contain an abundance of oil in places both offshore and inland, with one of the largest areas being that of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in Alaska. ANWR is an area of land in northeast Alaska that consists of 19 million acres of land that is administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and is viewed as one of the most promising United States onshore gas and oil prospects (Corn, Gelb, and Baldwin 4). This region of land has been set aside for the purpose of a wildlife reserve for the protection of many species of animals occupying the land.
Rivers as Resources The way we humans make use of our rivers cannot be separated from discussions about ecology. We are, after all, part of the river ecosystem. In fact, our influence on the river ecosystem is much greater than that of any of what we call keystone species. Keystone predators have so much influence on a system that their removal, or their addition, to an ecosystem can completely change the make-up of that system. An example of a keystone species is the seastar, Pisaster ochraceous.
Welville Water Welville Water Water Facts and Trivia * Groundwater can take a human lifetime just to traverse a mile. * Most of the earth's surface water is permanently frozen or salty. * Water regulates the earth's temperature. * Water freezes at zero degrees Celsius. * Water vaporizes at a hundred degrees Celsius.
1A-Water/MSG: When shaken the water and MSG they mostly dissolve creating an orange gold color, the substance foams at the top from the vigorous shaking action yet still some MSG residue remains at the bottom of the test tube, it was unclear if the reason was because we did not mix it enough or rather we added too much MSG to the amount of water given. 1A-Alcahol/MSG: These two substances barely mix together leaving a transparent yellow tint to the alcohol as well as MSG that was unable to dissolve at the bottom of the test tube. We concluded that this residue was unable to be dissolved in this liquid because the amount of MSG remaining in the bottom of the test tube was around the same amount that was originally placed into the alcohol. 1B- Alcohol/Vegetable Oil: Created a foamy top layer, was semi unclear but as to the best of my observations the alcohol nearly completely dissolved the oil, leaving a foggy appearance to the once clear
An anhydrous salt is a salt without the presence of water or any moisture. In this experiment the anhydrous salt was separated as well as the water from the hydrate. The mass of the anhydrous salt was one of the parts needed to be calculated in order to find the complete formula of the hydrate. The law of conservation of mass states that matter in a compound can be altered, separated, and pure substance can be destroyed, but the mass always remains the same. In this experiment, the hydrate was separated into water and the anhydrous salt.
The Impacts of Water Level Decline in the Ogallala Aquifer An aquifer is a limitless underground wellspring of water-bearing porous rock or unconsolidated materials (rock, sand, sediment, or mud) from which groundwater might be extracted utilizing a water-well. Groundwater might be found at about every point in the world's shallow subsurface, to some degree. It hails from drizzle and snowmelt that leaks into the ground, the gravity then pulls the water down through breaks in rocks or the spaces between particles of soil. Eventually, the water will achieve a profundity with the soil and rock opening loaded with water; this is known as the soaked zone, where there are pockets of air with some water that might be displaced by water (Dennehy,
In the US, fracking is also exempted from six other key pieces of regulation relating to hazardous waste and pollution. One of the biggest factors in the legal battles is what they use in chemicals inside the fracking process. The loophole allows them to keep that as a ‘guarded’ secret and they do not have to disclose all the chemicals that are used while fracking. There reservoirs over time have shown wear and tear and even possibly a defect in manufacturing of the well. There have been reports of the well collapsing and creeping into other water sources where the ecosystem around it has become a ‘dead zone’ for any type of life animal or vegetation.
Air deposition is more hazardous to the open- water, middle of the lake, which is dropping pesticides, lead, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyl (PCBS), furans, dioxins, and dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT). (Sivers, A, n.d) DDT is a white crystalline in-soluble solid usually derived from choral. (Dictionary.com, n.d) PCBS is any of a family of very stable industrial compounds used as lubricants, heat-transfer fluids, and plasticizers, which has banned since the 1970 for the harm it causes to the environment. (Dictionary.com, n.d) Even though DDT is banned in the United States and Canada it is still showing up in the Great Lakes. The air quality on the shoreline of Lake Huron is the worst in the south Ontario area.
It is worth mentioning that the bottling industry does not have to adhere to the same strict standards as the tap water industry. They only have to perform chemical and microbes testing about one fourth as often as tap water. Also, water bottles that are manufactured and sold instate often fall
30-50 percent on the fluids used to perform fracking as left behind. These fluids are harmful to the environment and cannot be broken down. Chemicals from fracking just sit in large pools above ground where they evaporate into the air. It releases harmful VOCs which are volatile organic compounds which contaminant air, acid air, and ground level ozone. When someone does research on hydraulic fracturing, a majority of the stuff that comes on it is negative