My Own Kind Of Space: Weather and Climate

My Own Kind Of Space: Weather and Climate

Weather and Climate

The terms weather and climate are often interchanged by many people. many people may deem that two words are synonymous but if we look deeper, they have different meanings.

Base in my research: 

"WEATHER is a state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy while CLIMATE is the statistic weather, usually over 30 years interval."

It simply means that both terms refer to the specific atmospheric conditions. We can also define these two terms(Weather and Climate) as: The Weather refer to the atmospheric condition in a short of period of time while Climate refer to the atmospheric condition in a long period of time.

Now let us focus deeper about Weather and Climate:

Weather as what we have discussed refer to the atmospheric condition in a short period of time in this video we can learn what is really a weather.

Climate climate refers to the atmospheric condition in a long period of time in this video we can learn what is Climate.

Now were done discussing about Climate and Weather next we will study about the effect of Climate Change:
Climate change, also called global warming, refers to the rise in average surface temperatures on Earth. An overwhelming scientific consensus maintains that climate change is due primarily to the human use of fossil fuels, which releases carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the air. The gases trap heat within the atmosphere, which can have a range of effects on ecosystems, including rising sea levels, severe weather events, and droughts that render landscapes more susceptible to wildfires.

Some Examples of its effects is the El Nino in the Philippines:
What is El Nino?
El Nino is a climate cycle in the Pacific Ocean with a global impact on weather patterns. The cycle begins when warm water in the western tropical Pacific Ocean shifts eastward along the equator toward the coast of South America. Normally, this warm water pools near Indonesia and the Philippines. During an El Nino, the Pacific's warmest surface waters sit offshore of northwestern south america.

REFLECTION:
A.what concept on the topic did you find easy to understand? What made them interesting?
I find the topic weather and climate interesting and easy to understand because we already experience the effects of this that's why I can say its interesting and easy to understand.

B.What were your personal discoveries or learnings while studying the topic?
The book we have is understandable but I still learn that the book is not good enough because the information there is not complete and I learn the process of El Nino not in the book but in my research study.

C.Which area or concept would you like to expand more?
The most interesting topic would be the climate change because its one of the major problem and issue that the world is facing now a days.

The Northern Light

WHAT ARE NORTHERN LIGHTS?

The bright dancing lights of the aurora are actually collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the earth's atmosphere. The lights are seen above the magnetic poles of the northern and southern hemispheres. They are known as 'Aurora borealis' in the north and 'Aurora australis' in the south..
Auroral displays appear in many colours although pale green and pink are the most common. Shades of red, yellow, green, blue, and violet have been reported. The lights appear in many forms from patches or scattered clouds of light to streamers, arcs, rippling curtains or shooting rays that light up the sky with an eerie glow.

WHAT CAUSES THE NORTHERN LIGHTS?

The Northern Lights are actually the result of collisions between gaseous particles in the Earth's atmosphere with charged particles released from the sun's atmosphere. Variations in colour are due to the type of gas particles that are colliding. The most common auroral color, a pale yellowish-green, is produced by oxygen molecules located about 60 miles above the earth. Rare, all-red auroras are produced by high-altitude oxygen, at heights of up to 200 miles. Nitrogen produces blue or purplish-red aurora.

The connection between the Northern Lights and sunspot activity has been suspected since about 1880. Thanks to research conducted since the 1950's, we now know that electrons and protons from the sun are blown towards the earth on the 'solar wind'. (Note: 1957-58 was International Geophysical Year and the atmosphere was studied extensively with balloons, radar, rockets and satellites. Rocket research is still conducted by scientists at Poker Flats, a facility under the direction of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks - see web page http://www.gi.alaska.edu/

The temperature above the surface of the sun is millions of degrees Celsius. At this temperature, collisions between gas molecules are frequent and explosive. Free electrons and protons are thrown from the sun's atmosphere by the rotation of the sun and escape through holes in the magnetic field. Blown towards the earth by the solar wind, the charged particles are largely deflected by the earth's magnetic field. However, the earth's magnetic field is weaker at either pole and therefore some particles enter the earth's atmosphere and collide with gas particles. These collisions emit light that we perceive as the dancing lights of the north (and the south).

The lights of the Aurora generally extend from 80 kilometres (50 miles) to as high as 640 kilometres (400 miles) above the earth's surface.

WHERE IS THE BEST PLACE TO WATCH THE NORTHERN LIGHTS?

Northern Lights can be seen in the northern or southern hemisphere, in an irregularly shaped oval centred over each magnetic pole. The lights are known as 'Aurora borealis' in the north and 'Aurora australis' in the south. Scientists have learned that in most instances northern and southern auroras are mirror-like images that occur at the same time, with similar shapes and colors.

Because the phenomena occurs near the magnetic poles, northern lights have been seen as far south as New Orleans in the western hemisphere, while similar locations in the east never experience the mysterious lights. However the best places to watch the lights (in North America) are in the northwestern parts of Canada, particularly the Yukon, Nunavut, Northwest Territories and Alaska. Auroral displays can also be seen over the southern tip of Greenland and Iceland, the northern coast of Norway and over the coastal waters north of Siberia. Southern auroras are not often seen as they are concentrated in a ring around Antarctica and the southern Indian Ocean.

This is how the Northern Light produce:

These are the sample pictures of the Northern light or what we all known as the Aurora:

How does our Digestive System Work?

On November 17, 2015 we were told to watch a film about "The Path of Food". A man named Cornel Bunz was told not to eat for 2 days so his stomach will be empty. He was told to swallow a capsule which contain a camera so that we should know whats happening inside the stomach while we eat with the help of a GPS censor.

Food is our body and fuel source!!

Believe it or not, the digestive process starts even before you put food in your mouth. It begins when you smell something irresistible or when you see a favorite food you know will taste good. Just by smelling that homemade apple pie or thinking about how delicious that ice cream sundae is going to taste, you begin to salivate — and the digestive process kicks in, preparing for that first scrumptious bite.

If it's been a while since your last meal or if you even think about something tasty, you feel hungry. You eat until you're satisfied and then go about your business. But for the next 20 hours or so, your digestive system is doing its job as the food you ate travels through your body.

Food is the body's fuel source. The nutrients in food give the body's cells the energy and other substances they need to operate. But before food can do any of these things, it has to be digested into small pieces the body can absorb and use.

The Process of Digesting Food

It goes first on the mouth. This is where we chew our food into bits and the saliva breaks down chemicals in it. And then as you swallow, a small tissue will avoid the food to enter the respiratory system, and will go to the esophagus for 10 seconds where muscles called peristalsis push the food down into your stomach, where everything is blended with digestive juices. Hydrochloric acid kills bacteria and enzymes break down proteins (the capsule lasted for 9 mins. in the stomach). The capsule then went to the small intestine which breaks down the food more and absorbed nutrients and minerals. Then it went to the large intestine where transmitting the useless waste materials from the body occurs. Then the waste goes to the rectum and that is when you'll have to go to your bathroom.

With the help of the GPS censor we have learned how our DIGESTIVE SYSTEM works.

The pictures that you can see is the images that the GPS take when its inside a DIGESTIVE TRACK.