Today in Class... Exam Review Day. 12/13/16

Today is exam review day. Well first we went over the test and I made the dumbest mistakes but that's okay. I mean its not okay but there isn't really anything I can do about it now. After we went over the what was going to be on the exam and how many questions were going to be on each part. It doesn't seem like it is going to be too hard or anything. The only thing that is a little concerning is that we have to write two five paragraph essays. That's ten paragraphs all together plus 100+ questions. I just hope that during my studies I haven't missed any important information.

Today in Class... Test Day. 12/12/16

Today in class we took our test on environmental geography... part 1 (I think). I think I did pretty well on it because all of the questions were pretty much just common knowledge and stuff. Obviously there were some things that weren't but we went over in class and as long as you paid attention you should've been okay.

Alright this just in, Mr.Schick is going to run the scantrons through the scantron thingy right now! Once he gets back he is going to tell us all our grades. Turns out I didnt do as well as I thiught I did. I thought I did well enough to get an A, but I got an 83%. I hate when this happens, I think I did really well on a test and then I end up doing not so well on it.

Okay so I'm at my house doing homework right now and I just got this email from Mr. Schick sayign that he curved everyone's test 4 points. It brought my grade up to an 87%. Still not the best but better than before. THANK YOU MR. SCHICK!!!!!!

Today in Class... Climate Change #3. 12/9/16

Today in class we finished the power point and our notes on climate change. We did a brief review on what we had learned about yesterday, which were the highlights of the Bill Nye video, and we also discussed a few other things. We looked at the opposing views of people who don't necessarily believe in/about climate change. They may think that climate change isn't a thing, its not humans fault, there are no consequences to climate change, or proposed solutions are ineffective/expensive. We also talked about how oil companies advertise that climate change isn't a thing, but they also prepare for the rising sea levels just in case their rigs break. The last thing we had talked about was Donald Trump electing Scott Pruitt. He elected him to be the leader of the EPA. He is oen that does not believe in climate change. He has also tried to sue the EDP multiple times but has never been successful.

Today in Class... More on Climate Change. 12/7/16

Today in class we continued on learning about climate change. We watched a second video about it and it was by Bill Nye (the science guy). His video had more of a visual explanation which actually helped a lot and also gave more information on the effect of climate change. Some of that information includes: 11/ past 14 were recorded as the warmest years on record, the sea levels have risen 6.7 inches, and since 1994, the earth has lost 400,000,000,000 (4x4x4 mi.) tons of ice glaciers each year. We also discussed some solutions that people can do to reduce the pollutants that are hurting our environment. There were the obvious solutions that everyone has heard of which was to recycle/reuse, ride a bike, walk, use public transportation, and turn of electronics. There were some that I was not familiar with which were to eat less meat, and to eat locally grown foods. I was kind of confused with these two but then I started thinking. We should eat less meat so then due to less meat consumption, farmers wont have to breed as many cows, which will lower the rate of cow poop per day, which will then lower the percentage of methane in the air, because methane is 10% of the greenhouse gases in the air. Also, I think they want us to eat locally grown veggies so that we wont have to ship veggies from across the country to anywhere else because those big 18-wheeler trucks burn a lot of gas which produces a lot of pollution.

Today in Class... Environmental Geography. 12/5/16

Today in class we started our new topic on environmental geography. The subtopic that we focused on was climate change also known as, "global warming." We watched a video that explained, using big smart people words, how climate change works. In the video it explains that the earth's temperature keeps rising rising due to this "greenhouse effect." The greenhouse effect is a naturally occurring thing that keeps some heat in the earth so that it doesn't completely freeze from the utterly cold atmosphere in space. Us humans are making is greenhouse effect backfire because of our daily actions. Driving cars, using factories. really anything that involves burning anything, releases unnecessary carbon dioxide and methane into the air, which then gets trapped due to the greenhouse effect, therefore making the earth warmer than usual. Because of the rising temperatures, ice glaciers are melting, which is causing the sea levels to rise. If the heat continues to rise, and the glaciers continue to melt, the sea levels will end up rising so much that areas will become flooded. We will also end up with more frequent hurricanes and servre droughts. Some species, including us, may be unable to adapt and in the long run, many many years from now, may become extinct. Long story short, because of us humans and our ignorance to face the facts, we are ruining our only home and may end up killing ourselves and everything else around us.

Today in NC#3... We Lost. :(

Today in North Carolina we had a game at 9:00 AM this morning. Because my dad is one of THOSE soccer dads, he had me get up at 5:30, then we left at 6:00. Like I don't know about you but that seems a little excessive to me. We were supposed to meet at the field at 8:00 and I got there at 7:00. We were literally the only cars in the parking lot except for the people that worked at the park. Anyways we lost the game 2-0. I had a pretty good game but the team as a whole played really crappy and we gave up two stupid goals. We had many opportunities to score, but we just never finished our chances.

Today in NC#2... We Won!

Today in North Carolina we had a game at 10:00 AM this morning. We were all pretty nervous because National League is the highest level of soccer you can play on a club team. The next level is college. It was pretty cool because we did this whole thing were both of the teams walked on the field and then we did the national anthem. But yeah we won 4-0 so we had a pretty good start to our tournament. One down, three to go.