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It all started when an old lady got hit in the head with a baseball. Then there was a guy who was struck by lightning on a golf course during a storm. Then there was Angeline's rich uncle. What are these connections I will now tell you. It is the work of Voodoo. Black magic. Each one of the victims received a voodoo doll explaining how they died three days before they actually died. But here it is Mr. Monk is trying to figure out the real connections. Angeline was taking care of her uncle when he died but she did not watch him have a heart attack. The heart attack that is how he died.Or is it we are going to find out. There is a suspect that has a voodoo shop. And his name is Reverend Jorgensen. But get this he is not the bad guy. He just sells the stuff. And things go critical when Natalie Mr. Monk's assistant gets a voodoo doll. With it showing that her head is going to be cut off. Natalie is afraid of voodoo because of her last encounter with it. But in the end it was Angeline cause she was a paramedic and she was the paramedic who was there when the people died. She could go into their houses and place a voodoo doll to make it look like actual voodoo. Monk figures this all out because Jorgensen said that she had bought some voodoo dolls from his shop. And at this time Natalie was in the ambulance with the Angeline cause she had drank some voodoo potion that Jorgensen had made. Turns out that Angeline wanted her uncle dead so that way she would get the money the other two people were just Red Herring's. Angeline was going to kill Natalie because she was thinking that Monk was close to figuring out that it was her. That is why she went after Natalie. But thankfully Natalie is still alive and Angeline is in jail. Good ending don't you think.

Haiti History

1. Christopher Columbus was the one who found the island of Haiti.
2. Columbus promptly claimed it to be the island of the Spanish crown.
3. In 2004 Haiti made a rebellion it caused conflicts for several weeks and it resulted in the premature end of president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and then he was taken to the United States with military men with him.
4. Jean Jacques Dessalianes became Haiti's first emperor in 1804.
5. Stenio Vincent was succeeded in becoming president in 1994.

6. From the 1986 to the early 1988 Haiti was ruled by a provisional military government under General Namphy.

7. Elections for the Chamber of Deputies and two-thirds of the Senate it took place in May 2000.

8. Christopher Columbus named Haiti Hispaniola.

9. From 1911 to 1915, there were 6 different presidents each of whom was either killed or forced into exile.

10. On January 12, 2010 a devastating earthquake hit Haiti with a 7.0 magnitude with dissasteres results.

Haiti Update
When we did more research on the deadly earthquake that happened in Haiti I was in shock. They were still finding survivors in the left over buildings in Haiti. They were from the houses that were destroyed in the earthquake. And that there were so many dead and they were finding more dead people were found and buried in a giant grave. There are still bodies in the street. Pray that they don't have more troubles here on in.

Haiti Earthquake

About 2 days ago on January 12th 2010 a massive earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 hit Haiti in the Caribbean. The city is still recovering there is food that is being provided. And there is very little shelter. This is one of the many houses and buildings that was destroyed during the quake. Haiti has had many earthquakes but none this strong. The structures of the buildings were weak and there is said to be more earthquakes coming soon.

Geo Active Questions and Awnsers 1-5

1.)List the main reasons for water scarcity?
A.) The main reasons for water scarcity are variations in climate, land degradation population growth, and water pollution.
2.)What is drought? What type of hardships do you think that drought could cause if you were living in a village in a poor country such as Ethiopia?
A.) Drought is a period of below average precipitation. I think that if a drought happened in Ethiopia many people would die.
3.)How does land degradation affect the supply of fresh water?
A.) Land degradation would not allow the soil to store water.
4a.)What is El Nino?
A.) El Nino is a warming where the moist easterly trade winds reverse their direction and cause droughts in certain areas and flooding in others.
4b.)Why does El Nino often cause drought in Australia?
A.) High pressure builds up over Australia this prevents moist tropical air to reach it for a long time.
5.)Observe the map showing the global effects of El Nino in 1982-1983.
5a.)What effects does El Nino have on the availability of fresh water?
A.) In the countries that are dry it would limit the amount of water. And in the heavy rain areas it would cause floods that would pollute the fresh water and can cause diseases.
5b.)Name the countries and describe the problems that arose from decreased rainfall caused by El Nino?
A.)Africa had reduced corn crop. China had agricultural land under threat from drought in the northern part and threats of flooding in the southern. Philippines had lower rice harvest. Papua New Guinea had failure of food crops and had to have food aid. Australia grain growing areas were threatened by the drought conditions.

Awnsers to the Question's

1.A)2.5 % percent the world has of fresh water.

2.A)Fresh water is found in ice on land, in groundwater in the soil, and in the rivers and lakes.

3.A) Depending on the area that people live in determines the water availablity, because water can be more abudunt in certain areas.

4.A) It begins with low rainfall and then increases as it gets closer to the equator. Then it will begin to decrease again.

4.B)It begins with low rainfall and slowly increases.

5.A) Australia, Asia, South America and North America have the most water availablity per person.

5.B) Africa, and Europe hae the least amount of water avialablity per person.

6.A)The main uses of water are for Agricultural.

6.B) The ones that have increased over the last century is Agricultural, Industrial and Resservior losses from evaporation and seepage.

The Bintaro Lama Kampung Field Trip

Last Thursday we took a trip to Bintaro Lama Kampung. Bintaro is sort of a water treatment plant in it's own cool and unique way. We only saw stations 2, 4 and 6. So those are the only ones I can talk about.

station 2: Learning

at station 2 we saw young kids and mostly adults. That had just been learning what goes on with water and how water is cleaned so that way they can do their part for the world by helping at Bintaro. They learn how the water gets it's diseases and how it gets dirty and the process.

Station 4: Filtration

at station 4 we saw how they clean the water. They use these tabs that make the sediment turn into floc. These tablets clean the water and after the floc forms they take out the floc. And then they scoop the water out and put it into a cloth that is put over a cup and then the water slowly goes into the class and appears mainly clear. Then after all the water is in the cup they transfer it into a bigger pot that is able to offically clean the water. When the water is put into the pot it takes roughly about 20-30 minutes to be able to almost drink.

Staion 6: Cleansing

At station 6 they showed us how to clean the water to be able to really drink the water. They had 2 different cleansers that are opptional. One is called 'Air rahmat' that is a liquid that can treat 10 gallons of water with just one small cup in 20-30 minutes. And then the 2nd one is a tablet which name escapes me but one tablet can clean 9 or 20 gallons of water in the same amount of time as the Air rahmat 20-30 minutes.

Thanks:

I would like to thank the teachers for their hard work in organizing the field trips to the water treatment plant and the Bintaro Lama Kampung. And my parents for letting me use the camera for the field trip. And my partners on the project that helped a lot: Emma and Natalie.

By: Ashley Zimmerman

Homework



Activities



1.Q. What percentage of the world's supply of water is fresh water?



2.Q. Where is the world"s supply of fresh water found?



3.Q. Even though the supply of fresh is abundant it is still a problem. Why?


4.Q. Observe the map of world average annual precipitation (opposite).
a). Describe the changes in rainfall that occur as you move from the southern to the northern tip of Africa.

b). Describe the changes in rainfall that occur as you move from the western to the eastern tip of Australia along the Tropic of Capricorn.

5. Observe the diagram of water availability per person.

a). Which parts of the world appear to have a large amount of water available per person?

b). Which parts of the world appear to have a small amount of water per person?

6. Observe the diagram of water use.

a). What are the main uses of water?

b).Which uses have increased the most over the last century?

Water Treatment Stages

Stage 1:Preliminary Treatment

Preliminary treatment involves taking the water form any reservoir and getting it ready for the other stages of the cleaning process.

Stage 2:Coagulation
Coagulation is when the alum is being added and the dirt and other particles are being pushed to the bottom of the water.

Stage 3:Flocculation
Flocculation is when the sediment or the dirt particle's join and link together to create floc. And the floc rises to the top of the water it can be collected.

Stage 4:Clarification
Clarification is when all of the leftover sludge and etc. have fallen at the bottom. And then after a while they collect or scrape the sludge off of the bottom after the water has been moved out and then repeat over and over the same step over.

Stage 5: Filtration

Filtration is when all of the other things that aren't important like the left over dirt and etc moves down to the bottom and the water moves out of the container and is moved to the water tanks and is distributed around though the pipes and into homes.

Water Cycle Evaporation, Condensation, Precipatation and Infiltration and how they are linked together.

Evaporation

Evaporation is the vaporization of a liquid and the reverse of condensation. A type of phase transition, it is the process by which molecules in a liquid state (e.g. water) spontaneously become gaseous (e.g. water vapour). Generally, evaporation can be seen by the gradual disappearance of a liquid from a substance when exposed to a significant volume of gas. Vaporization and evaporation however, are not entirely the same processes. For example, substances like caesium, francium, gallium, bromine, rubidium and mercury may vaporize, but they do not evaporate as such.

Condensation

Condensation is the change of the physical state of aggregation (or simply state) of matter from gaseous phase into liquid phase and the reverse of evaporation. When the transition happens from the gaseous phase into the solid phase directly, bypassing the liquid phase, the change is called deposition. While condensation can occur in many different substances, the condensation of water vapor in air is by far the most common experienced (such as the formation of dew on a cold drink).

Precipatation

Precipitation is the formation of a solid in a solution during a chemical reaction. When the reaction occurs, the solid formed is called the precipitate, and the liquid remaining above the solid is called the supernate. Powders derived from precipitation have also historically been known as flowers.

Infiltration

Infiltration is the process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil. Infiltration rate in soil science is a measure of the rate at which soil is able to absorb rainfall or irrigation. It is measured in inches per hour or millimeters per hour. The rate decreases as the soil becomes saturated. If the precipitation rate exceeds the infiltration rate, runoff will usually occur unless there is some physical barrier. It is related to the saturated hydraulic conductivity of the near-surface soil. The rate of infiltration can be measured using an infiltrometerr.

The Jakarta Earthquake

On Wednesday 2 of September 2009 a massive earthquake hit the Java islands. I was in Singapore at the time so I never heard of it. At least twenty-three people have been killed. Most of them were trapped under their houses. Then 10 people were killed in Cianjur, eight in Tasikmalaya, three in Garut, one in Sukabumi and one in West Bandung. Another 5,000 people fled their homes fearing aftershocks in Cianjur. The houses of some of those who died in Cianjur were buried under a landslide. The quake struck less than 200 kilometres south of Jakarta at a depth of 49 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said. The people had to flee out of every building in Java and near south Jakarta. I think. the news about the quake is really bad. I couldn't believe it when I did some research on it.

Typhon Morakot was deadly

I got this picture off of google. I could not belive my eyes when I found this picture I was so shocked. This just blew my mind. So I had to put it up for my homework assinment today. But then I also found out that Antartica is being attacked by HURICANE BILL!!!!!!!! There is so much going on around the world. Seems that my teacher in english and social studies. Same teacher is going to have us be really busy here for quite sometime. If the storms keep coming of course.