Manitou drinking water is different from Colorado Springs water. Manitou gets some of its drinking water from the Rocky Mountains. The water comes from snow melt and natural springs. They also get there water from Manitou reservoir. The Rocky Mountains offer Manitou some of the freshest water. Manitou also gets it's water from the ground. All this water isn't very clean so Manitou send it back. It then enters the Mesa and Crystal Hill water storage tanks ready to be used.
While for Colorado they get over 75% of there water from the continental divide. Meaning that we get some of the cleanest and most purest water like Manitou. Colorado Springs also gets there other 25% of there water from other reservoirs and damns. Colorado has over 200 miles of pipes and four major pump stations which pump water to a water cleaning facility and pumps the water throughout all of Colorado Springs.
Although Manitou and Colorado Springs get there water in diffrent ways, they both get some of there water from snow. Also there water is some of the cleanest, purest, and less used water throughout the world.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Water cycle
What is the water cycle?
The water cycle is a pattern of precipitation throughout the environment.
Does the water cycle have a begging or end?
The water cycle is a cycle with no begging or end. Because first of all we don't know what part of the water cycle came first and it is a never ending cycle.
Starting with a puddle on a sunny day, describe how water might move through the water cycle and eventually fall back as rain?
On a sunny day with a puddle the suns energy will get hotter causing the water from the puddle to warm up and turn into a gas and evaporate. When the water evaporates it picks up dust and particles creating clouds and those clouds hold as much water as it can until it can't hold anymore. When the cloud can't hold anymore water the cloud releases all of its water causing precipitation. Depending on the weather, wind, and front it will determine what kind of precipitation it is. Then that water falls back down to the earth because of gravity causing a new puddle or water masses. Then the cycle starts all over again.
The water cycle is a pattern of precipitation throughout the environment.
Does the water cycle have a begging or end?
The water cycle is a cycle with no begging or end. Because first of all we don't know what part of the water cycle came first and it is a never ending cycle.
Starting with a puddle on a sunny day, describe how water might move through the water cycle and eventually fall back as rain?
On a sunny day with a puddle the suns energy will get hotter causing the water from the puddle to warm up and turn into a gas and evaporate. When the water evaporates it picks up dust and particles creating clouds and those clouds hold as much water as it can until it can't hold anymore. When the cloud can't hold anymore water the cloud releases all of its water causing precipitation. Depending on the weather, wind, and front it will determine what kind of precipitation it is. Then that water falls back down to the earth because of gravity causing a new puddle or water masses. Then the cycle starts all over again.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Annotated Bibliography
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/gen01/gen01673.htm
This web site was a important website for me to use. This website gave me a great deal on how important energy is and the fuels that we use can be scarce. We take these fuels for granit. Also if we keep continuing our way of life as it is the future would prob be a difficult place to live because of the lack of natural resources and the enviorment.
http://www.ecomall.com/greenshopping/20things.htm
This website really helped me a lot. This web site is one of the two websites that i used to find out ways to conserve energy. This didn't all give me the exact information i needed but I took the good stuff out of it. It gives you twenty ways a person could consirve energy. It gave examples for ways to conserve energy for home appliances, heating and cooling, products to help conserve energy, transportation,recycle, instilation, and the community.
http://www.squidoo.com/10waystoconserveenergy
This was the other great web site that i used to find ways to conserve energy. This web site lists ten diffrent ways that people could conserve energy. This web site taught me some great ways to conserve energy. I wish that this web site would have gave more facts and ways that common everyday people could conserve energy. But other than that this website was a great use to me.
http://energy.opp.psu.edu/awareness-conservation/why-conserve-energy
This web site was a good website to use for easy research. This site told me basic short facts why we should conserve energy. It was a short page of facts but these facts were simple and true. It also connects to the reader because it says "why should I care i don't pay the bills." So this was one of the most straight up and tells you the facts which i liked.
This web site was a important website for me to use. This website gave me a great deal on how important energy is and the fuels that we use can be scarce. We take these fuels for granit. Also if we keep continuing our way of life as it is the future would prob be a difficult place to live because of the lack of natural resources and the enviorment.
http://www.ecomall.com/greenshopping/20things.htm
This website really helped me a lot. This web site is one of the two websites that i used to find out ways to conserve energy. This didn't all give me the exact information i needed but I took the good stuff out of it. It gives you twenty ways a person could consirve energy. It gave examples for ways to conserve energy for home appliances, heating and cooling, products to help conserve energy, transportation,recycle, instilation, and the community.
http://www.squidoo.com/10waystoconserveenergy
This was the other great web site that i used to find ways to conserve energy. This web site lists ten diffrent ways that people could conserve energy. This web site taught me some great ways to conserve energy. I wish that this web site would have gave more facts and ways that common everyday people could conserve energy. But other than that this website was a great use to me.
http://energy.opp.psu.edu/awareness-conservation/why-conserve-energy
This web site was a good website to use for easy research. This site told me basic short facts why we should conserve energy. It was a short page of facts but these facts were simple and true. It also connects to the reader because it says "why should I care i don't pay the bills." So this was one of the most straight up and tells you the facts which i liked.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Phill's essential question-ways a town or community could conserve energy.
Energy is very important and is an essential part of life and it's something we shouldn't wast or take for granite. To really and truly conserve energy more than one person needs to participate. One person could cut down the use of energy a lot if they really tried but imagine if a whole town or city did it. I know that people need energy these days for there everyday life. But even if we cut down energy for at least an hour it will make a big difference and save a lot of energy. There is a few ways that a town or people could cut down on energy. People could participate in events like earth hour, they could cut down on unnecessary use of power. People could use less of there heat by blocking drafts.They could also resort to new energy officiant ways of power even if it means just for a little while because our planet could use a little break. As a community it may seem hard to cut down on energy use because we became so dependent on it that it has even become a problem. So i say we need to at least try to cut down on energy.
Energy is very important and is an essential part of life and it's something we shouldn't wast or take for granite. To really and truly conserve energy more than one person needs to participate. One person could cut down the use of energy a lot if they really tried but imagine if a whole town or city did it. I know that people need energy these days for there everyday life. But even if we cut down energy for at least an hour it will make a big difference and save a lot of energy. There is a few ways that a town or people could cut down on energy. People could participate in events like earth hour, they could cut down on unnecessary use of power. People could use less of there heat by blocking drafts.They could also resort to new energy officiant ways of power even if it means just for a little while because our planet could use a little break. As a community it may seem hard to cut down on energy use because we became so dependent on it that it has even become a problem. So i say we need to at least try to cut down on energy.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Penny lab
The penny lab was an experiment that we did in science class to practice hypothisising and doing the experiment. For this experiment you need a eye dropper, a penny, and water. This experiment was simple all I had to do is make an educated guess on how many drops of water could fit on a penny before it over flows. I guessed that the penny could hold seven drops of water because water ussaly expands takeing up space and a penny isn't even a inch long and a centemeter thick. But to my supprise when i did try the experiment the most water dropplets I got on the penny was thirteen. I think this was because water bonds with other water molicules and it has a sticky substance that allows it to some what cling onto the penny. So all in all this was a fun learning experiment for me and I would have never guessed that a penny could hold more than seven drops of water.
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