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WAC - Is it more important to Reduce, Reuse or Recycle? Written by: Riccardo Gavardoni 8B We sometimes ask ourselves, "Is it more important to Reduce, Reuse, or Recycle?" The short answer is, we should do all of them. Nevertheless, there is always one that stands out and is the most important of all, and that is reduce. There is a reason why we put reduce at the beginning of the 3 R's. That is because there is much more waste than we imagine, and since we can't take things out of landfills, we need to prevent waste from getting there. As a result, by reducing waste we can significantly reduce our environmental footprint, as reusing and recycling take a lot of time and resources. Reducing is one of those things you can do that is easy and can help the earth in extraordinary ways. By reducing waste, we reduce the amount of waste that will need to be recycled or sent to landfills and incinerators. Which reduces greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing also allows product...

Summary :  The vast unit of time known as the Precambrian started with the origin of the earth about 4.5 billion years ago and ended 570 million years ago. Largely thought to be a hot, steaming, and forbidding landscape, the primitive crust of the newly condensed planet continued to cool. The crust consisted largely of igneous intrusions and volcanic rocks, and sediments that were eroded from this irregular surface.The Precambrian is subdivided, from oldest to youngest, into three eons, the Hadean (4600−3900 million years ago), Archean (3900−2500 million years ago), and Proterozoic (2500−570 million years ago). During the Archean Eon, the earliest living cells formed in the ocean. The Paleozoic era (570−245 million years ago) was long believed by geologists to mark the beginning of life, because of the sudden abundance of complex organisms with hard parts in the fossil record. These organisms included trilobites and shelled animals called cephalopods. Life was restricte...

The Mississippian and Pennsylvanian periods are time periods inside the Carboniferous period.  The Carboniferous period was large so it was split into two others in this picture. This picture describes best the geologic time scale. that is why I am using the picture. Just wanted to point this out. Summary: 

Summary : Geology is the study of Earth, as well as Earth's structure and the forces that shape it.  James Hutton's principle is that geologic processes that operate today operated the same way in the past. As well as in other places that have the same conditions. Hutton's principal, uniformitarianism, allows us to estimate what happened to rocks long before humans were on Earth and can help us predict what may happen to Earth in the future.  T here are three types of rocks, igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks and metamorphic rocks. Igneous rocks form when molten material from under the Earth's surface cools and hardens.  Sedimentary rocks are made of sediments that were deposited and then pressed together to form a solid rock.   Metamorphic rock is an existing rock that has been changed by heat, pressure or chemical reactions. As well as t here are ways to tell a rocks age. There is the Relative age, and the Absolute age. The Relative age is when ...

Question : After wondering about how the size of a magnet affects the number of paperclips it can pick up, a group of students develops a procedure that answers their question. They gather data and report back to the class. The correct answer to this question is planning and carrying out investigations. This is because the students researched the topic they had in mind and developed a procedure to answer this question. My mindset when taking this question was that since they researched their question and reported it to the class, the S&EP was communicating information, which it wasn't. Question : Students at their tables read three articles about different communities that have instituted plans to conserve energy. They evaluate the information to create a plan for how their own community can conserve energy and share their plan during Student Exhibition Night. The correct answer to this question is Obtaining, evaluating and communicating information, th...

      The reason I decided to return to AdVENTURE is because AdVENTURE is a collaborative, entertaining, and engaging program that suits my needs. There was no reason to leave AdVENTURE as no other middle school programs offered these benefits and attributes. This program was very beneficial to my learning as it even helped me develop hobbies such as coding and video producing. This program made me try out new activities and pushed me to my work levels. This made me a much better and harder worker, which will help me in the future. The AdVENTURE program is a program that fits my learning preferences, and I can say many other peoples learn the same way. AdVENTURE is a school that works a lot in groups, which can help the overall product of your work. AdVENTURE is a school that is made in a way where students in a group projects have to all do a fair amount of work evenly or else the final product is not as good as it could be. Meaning, that you get so much work that it is...

Summary : The environmental accords are a series of rules or policies that make sure a city or possibly urban village is a safe, clean and sustainable place to live. The environmental accords are split up into 7 different categories: Energy, waste reduction, urban design, urban nature, transportation, environmental health, and water. Each policy is in charge of helping a direct result in the community. Such as policy 6, this policy makes sure that the city has a plan to remove waste, so all of it doesn't go to landfills. For example you could recycle or create a compost bin. By making sure people follow this rule, it can help reduce methane gases because less things that cause methane gas are being put in landfills. Over time, this can help the global warming crisis. S&EP: Communicating Information: As the final piece of the urban village project, we were put in charge of creating a poster type advertisement where we would choose three environmental accords a...