Science Study Notes
- What makes an ecosystem or a water system healthy?
There are fish.
How would you measure if water is healthy or not?
Number of fish, number of fish endangered, and how much waste is in the lake.
Is your local water system healthy? Why? or Why not?
“There are more than 110 more fish species that live in or move through Lake st. clair” quote from a scrca.on.ca, st clair has been continuously been polluted by storm water runoff and sewage since the 2000’s, 19 years later, and st clair lake has been showing some negative effects. The number of endangered fish are 6 out of 16 Species.
(Describe the role of the sun in the water cycle.) The sun is what makes the water cycle work. The sun provides what almost everything on Earth needs to go—energy, or heat. Heat causes liquid and frozen water to evaporate into water vapor gas, which rises high in the sky to form clouds...clouds that move over the globe and drop rain and snow. This process is a large part of the water cycle.
What Is Sustainability?
Sustainability focuses on meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. The concept of sustainability is composed of three pillars: economic, environmental, and social—also known informally as profits, planet, and people.
As water evaporates from the oceans, what happens to the total amount of water on Earth?
https://socratic.org/questions/as-water-evaporates-from-the-oceans-what-happens-to-the-total-amount-of-water-on#373764
How much is produced?
It takes about 1.39 liters of water to make 1 liter of bottled water. So they make 507.35 liters of bottled water a year.
How much waste is created from bottled water?
Bottled water makes 1.5 million tons of plastic waste per year, so that means there is 47 million gallons of oil per year to produce.
Where do they get the water from?
They get bottled water from lakes, streams, wells, springs, glacier run offs, and even from municipal water supplies. 25 % of bottled water comes from the tap.
Why do people use plastic water bottles?
One of the biggest reasons why people buy plastic water bottles is because they are convenient and they perceive better water quality.
Why should people stop using bottled water?
It's because it hurts the environment and it is more convenient to get from the tap.
Do not buy bottled water, unless the water in your community is truly unhealthy
Join a complaint that's working for real solutions.
Invest in public water infrastructure
Prevent Pollution, by not buying bottled water.
Lobby and cities to bring back drinking fountains
Water bottle boycott
How many years have they been without clean water?
it's been 17 years
How do the residents get clean water?
it goes to an treatment plant
What is the biggest problem when they cannot operate the ferry?
it's very far from the lake land
Why do they want to build freedom road?
it is a route for the community residents to safely and conveniently travel to the mainland to get stuff
What happened when Dak drank the water without boiling it?
He got sick.
Hi my names Logan, and i have a four things to say one is the problems in the water system
Am going to name three of the problems. One is the people throwing garbage into the water, two is the plants and animals it's going to affect if we don't do anything about the water system. Three is the fish in the water dying because of the dirty water, and the people it's going to affect when swimming in the water. I have two ideals that can fix this. One is to make people stop throwing garbage into the water and you can do this by maybe making a law. Two is to make sure that if the water is uncleanable, put a warning sign in the beach or river, saying that the water is unswimmable. My 2 wishes for the future is to stop people from littering and to get a milkshake.
“A water shortage in one community will impact life in distant communities that are not experiencing a water shortage.”
Ms. Fleury is not right because when there is a water shortage it means sewage and stuff can't go anywhere. and when California drought happened it did not say that other communities were affected.
Beluga’s are a “bioindicator”. What does this term mean? (3:20)
It means that a living organism gives us an idea of the health of an ecosystem.
How do we, the people of Chatham Kent - affect the Beluga’s whale of the St. Lawrence River? If you dump a can of motor oil in the great lakes then the oil will go to the ocean and then the belugas whales will have a lot of health issues like trouble breathing and it might start killing them.
At 5:00 the video talks about how the Beluga’s remind us that all life in the Great Lakes is connected and that human actions can have grave consequences. What are they trying to say?
Like I said in the 2nd question. If a human throws a can of oil in the great lakes, the can and the oil is slowly going to the ocean.
How do humans and other natural factors affect the water cycle/water systems? Humans can affect the water cycle by throwing waste into the great lakes or ocean and nature could get kill by an disease and if it's near the water could affect the water maybe
The Problem is that people are living without access to safely managed sanitation.
By 2050, up to 5.7 billion people could be living in areas where water is scarce for at least one month a year, creating unprecedented competition for water
Sustainable sanitation and climate change
No because we don't hear from the people who do have clean water.
Stop putting sewage in water.
Its supportive because it was a donated at the bottom of the page
How are condensation and precipitation similar? The process by which water moves from place to place on Earth, above, and below the Earth's surface, is known as the water cycle. The total amount of water on the Earth has remained about the same for the past 4.50 billion years or so - since our planet's formation. As the planet cooled, water vapor present at its formation condensed to fill the oceans and other places, like inland lakes and rivers. The water is literally recycled by the processes of Evaporation, Condensation, and Precipitation.
The key difference between condensation and precipitation is that condensation is the change of physical state of matter from a gaseous phase into a liquid phase while precipitation is the change of physical state of matter from an aqueous phase to a solid phase.
You dip a container into a small lake in northern Ontario. The water is colourless and has no odour. Would it be safe to drink? Explain. It is safe to drink because dirty water was color and smells really bad
What is a watershed? an area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas.