Bio diesel.

Bio- Diesel.

http://www.biodiesel.org/


Bio-diesel is becoming America's first advanced biofuel. As of recent it is being produced more readily. With the growing use of bio-diesel dependency of diesel is decreasing the need for importing diesel. The benefits of using bio-diesel also include job creation when manufactured on a large scale, but bio-diesel can be made at home. Bio-diesel fuel is made of vegetable or animal fat based fuel. The use of bio-diesel is great because it uses oils that need to be disposed of to fuel cars, and even airplanes. This is very exciting because lessening our need for imports and using resources that we already have creates less dependency on foreign nations. Encouraging bio-diesel production is good because it is environmentally friendly.


Below I have included a picture of how bio-diesel fuel works.

12 Soils of the World- and Georgia.

12 Soils of the World.

http://www.cals.uidaho.edu/soilorders/

There are 12 main soils of the world. They are listed below. These different soils are characterized by their varying composition, texture and color. Below I have listed the 12 different soils as well as included a map of where each soil type can be found.

Alfisols
Andisols
Aridisols
Entisols
Gelisols
Histosols
Inceptisols 
Mollisols
Oxisols
Spodosols 
Ultisols
Vertisols

Rocks and Minerals: Micaceous Schist.
This is a medium grade metamorphic rock. This rock has both medium and large grad mica flakes, the rock is coarse grained. Because the content of the mica the rock appears very shiny. The rock is composed of 50% platy and elongated material.

Below is a picture of the Micaceous Schist.

creation of urban community garden

http://www.epa.gov/brownfields/urbanag/steps.htm


Urban community gardens are beginning to become more prevalent. Creation of these gardens create food security in urban areas. The EPA is encouraging the creation of urban gardens, above I have included the hyperlink to the instructions the EPA has created to insure the proper implementation of community gardens. The benefits of these gardens are vast. An urban garden can be define is one plot of land being cultivated and garden by a collective group of people who together share the benefits and the work.

Such gardens in urban areas have vast positive results. The obvious benefits include the making of healthy food in an area where it was before difficult. Creating a garden in a urban area creates opportunities for people to eat healthier by gardening themselves, which before the creation of urban community gardens was not possible. These gardens also improve neighborhoods and create and opportunity for people to interact while they work together to achieve something great. Urban  community gardens foster a sense of contentedness where people can work together.

Below I have included pictures of various community urban gardens.

Trees and Shrubs

Pecan tree.  

Oak tree. 

Southern Magnolia. 

Larch. 

We walked around campus and viewed various trees and shrubs, talking about each and describing their innate features and why they grow here in Macon. Above I listed with pictures some of the trees we viewed around campus. 

The Pecan Tree-The pecan tree is found in areas around the south east and their growth is prevalent in Georgia. The word pecan means, nut requiring stone to crack. Pecan trees grow pecans which are technically not a nut but a drupe, which is a fruit with a single pit. Georgia is the world's leading producer in pecans, and pecan farms can be found throughout the state of Georgia. A pecan tree can live for 300 years producing the drupe all throughout its life span. 

The Oak Tree-There are nearly 600 different species of Oak Trees. Oak trees produce a nut called the acorn. Oak trees are characterized by having attractive graining, which makes oak trees useful for planking and building. Oak trees are also characterized by being resistant to heavy inset attack, making oak trees good for building as well as making furniture. 

The Southern Magnolia- Southern magnolias grow most commonly in the south eastern united states from Virginia to Florida southern magnolias can be found. Magnolia trees can grow to be 90 feet in height in height and are characterized by having dark green leaves and flowering huge what flowers. The fragrance of the magnolia and visual beauty makes the magnolia very appealing.  

The Larch- Larch are commonly found in the northern hemisphere. This coniferous plant is able to withstand the cold with much ease. Larch trees do lose their leafs in the fall, and most coniferous plants do not. Larch trees produce pine cones. 

River Lab.

Ocmulgee River... 
We went to the Ocmulgee river in Macon GA. To measure the flow rate of the river in two different channels. We used oranges to time the flow of the river using an orange works well because it floats down the river. We also measured the elevation from the top of the hill to the river bed, using string and a measuring stick. Some people went noodling, were you catch cat fish with your fist, no one was successful in catching a fish. But I got a lot of ant bites, and that was not cool.


http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3207123

Mystery of the Megaflood.

Mystery of the Megaflood.

The Mystery of the Megaflood is a  PBS film is about the glacier build up of the glacier ice after the ice age that lead to catastrophic floods clearing out tons of landmass and causing vast destruction in Washington. The Missoula Floods were the result of the cracking of huge glacier that caused so much flooding. The huge glacial mountain was holding pack tons of water but as the ice began to crack it could no longer hold back the flooding waters. When the damn cracked it flooded out a huge area of Easter Washington. This flooding caused the Scablands.

      What caused the flooding was the pressure in the depths of Lake Missoula. As the pressure increased the dam made of ice the freezing point lowered below the temperature of the ice. The water then cause cracks in the dam, because the pressure was so high. Eventually these changes caused the cracks to be too large to hold back all the water. The Scablands in Washington are now completely cleared out by the destruction of of the megaflood, included are some images of of the paths made by the water. 

Similar situations have been seen in Iceland as well.