Victoriah #13 2010

"Strange Days on Planet Earth"

Part 4

• The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is decreasing.
• These Scientists have to use black nets to catch the plankton so that they won't see it coming. That way it is easier to catch them
• When the waters are cooler the numbers add but,when the waters are hotter the amount decreases.
• Plankton are dieing because the water is getting warmer.
• Some animals in California are driven to the north because of global warming.
• The reason scientist stress about this is because even though plankton is a small creature they make a big difference in the food web if they die.
• The tides in the water are affecting the organisms that live on the edge of the land.
• The crabs heart rate is going up because of the warming of the water.
• What we put in the atmosphere affects others and the same idea goes for what they do also.
• It used to be that not a lot of people had asthma in her town but now there are lots of kids that have asthma.She does not know the reason why.
• Coral Reefs are dieing and getting deceases.
• Lake Chad used to be Africa's largest lake.Then a decade long drought dried it out.
• This lake produced so much fish that they built a lab.
• A different part of the earth is different.Instead of getting heat they are getting dust.
• Now the scientist believe that the reason those kids are getting asthma is because of the dust in the air.
• The scientist think that the dust has a small but powerful decease.
• The scientist found out that there is a decease in the dust.(seafan decease)
• They are wondering why all of a sudden the dust affects now because the dust has been blowing for a long time and now we are getting the problems.
• The Indian oceans water temperatures is rising.
• The energy ripples through the land like a wave in a pool.That brings more dust to the Caribbean.Which is why the kids are getting asthma.

Part 5(Predators)

• Scientist are starting to think that wild animals are causing for the trees and global warming.
• They think that we would be better off without them.(Mountain Lions, Tigers, Wolfs,etc.)
• When the scientist went out into the wild they saw that lots of things have changed.
• It changed because of a flood that had happened.
• The forest was full and there was a lot of animals.
• The monkeys have now ran up to the top of the trees.
• Since there are not a lot of trees now the monkeys are squished together and now they fight for food.
• All the animals have gone so destructive.
• They are blaming the animals because they are spreading deceases and damaging our property's.
• Yellow stone is the worlds first national park.
• The park is loosing its soil and is changing as much more.
• The people from way back have revealed changes.
• There used to be lots of trees but since 1992 the trees have gone away.But how have they gone away in a protected park range.
• They thought it was Global Warming but it wasnt.
• They thought it was a fire, but it wasnt.
• BY the 1930s Yellow Stones last wolf was dead.By the 1930s wolfs were stated endangered in the U.S.
• They had to bring wolfs from Canada because they didnt have any.
• The grass is starting to grow and the trees are staring to come back because the wolfs are back.