...One sunny morning, my family and I decided to take a trip up to Lake Mille Lacs. All along the way, we noticed what an incredible ride our Ford Expedition ’05 provided us. Its independent shocks and air suspension made our journey very comfortable and smooth on the bumpy, rugged road. When we arrived at the lake, we noticed that a car had gotten stuck in a snow bank which was incredibly deep. We went over to approach them and asked if perhaps they needed some help from us. They replied yes, so we took out the tow rope and attached it to both their hitch and ours. As soon as the rope was secure, we then went back to our vehicle and shifted the gears to “4 × 4 low” in order to pull them out of the snow. This event really showed me that the Expedition was not just attractive-looking, but also truly powerful. After that, we continued on our way and went fishing on the lake. When the sun began to set across the horizon, we decided to go back to the cabin and fry up our catches of the day. The next morning, we rose at 7:00 a.m. with plans to hit the lake again and placed all of the gear back into the SUV. While we were doing so, we witnessed the sun shining on the Expedition in the most perfectly, exquisite way. We couldn’t help but smile at each other while admiring its brilliant design. After we finished up loading the equipment, we then headed back inside to eat a warm, filling breakfast. After the hearty meal, we all hopped back into the car and drove to the lake again. When...
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...Joey Amici Science Fair Project Notes (4 Pages) Science Fair Project Notes (4 Pages) Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of player use their sticks to shoot a frozen rubber puck into their opponent's goal to score. The sport is known to be physical and fast-paced. The teams usually consist of six players that skate up and down the hockey rink that try to pass the frozen rubber puck back and forth trying to score it into their opponent’s goal and the team who has scored the most amount of goals win the game. Three of the six players skate up and down the rink, they are the ones that try to scores the goals. The two out of the six players stay back and are the defenders. They stay back...
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...Although an ice storm may not seem to have the same type of effects as some other crises may have on the hospitality industry, there are many negative outcomes from them. Ice storms are very dangerous in the fact that you never know when it could turn into one. Weather may be getting weather, even warmer, but if you’ve got rain, especially at the end of the winter season, it could easily turn to ice in a second. All types of storms can have some effect on any type of operation but in particular, those that are non-essential. As stated by the Government of Canada, “freezing rain is tough, clings to everything it touches and is more slippery than snow. A little freezing rain is dangerous, a lot can be catastrophic” (http://www.getprepared.gc.ca/knw/ris/str-eng.aspx#c4). Things such as electrical, heating, plumbing, gas, and any other type of power outlet can be effected by ice storms, especially with them being outside. The next few paragraphs are an explanation into how ice storms can affect a hospitality operation from the greenhouse, up to the actual restaurant itself. As well we personally interviewed Sarah Scott about her experience with an ice storm at Inn On The Twenty. There are several different areas that can be affected by the severe effects of an ice storm. As the rest of this report will show, the effects can spread right from the farmers to the restaurant/hotel and even directly to the guest at such locations. The primary focus of the interview that will assist...
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...Hockey has become a more expensive sport to play over the last years, and families can barely afford to keep their children in hockey anymore. People wonder why this is but there is a logical reason behind it. New technologies to improve the equipment have been invented, inflation on other things such as utilities, gas, food and salaries is the main reason for this problem. It has come to the point that families discourage their children to play ice hockey in favor of other, cheaper, sports. To buy new skates, a family is looking to invest between $500.00-$950.00 dollars, depending on the quality. Other popular sports that competes with hockey for practitioners have an massive advantage by being so much cheaper. This is a massive problem, and it has led to talented youngsters having to quit the sport they love because of their family’s financial situation. By doing research and comparing different options there might be a solution to...
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...Sea Ice Explain the trends and why they occur The overall concept of global warming has rapidly influenced the world’s awareness of how our uses of fossil fuels are destroying the natural world. From 1979 to 2000, the sea ice conditions were generally stable. Since then, year by year there has slowly been a decline in Arctic sea ice, most obviously seen from 2008 to present. Year after year scientists are seeing a lower starting measurement of sea ice coverage, though the pattern remains relatively similar, it’s obvious that the amount of sea ice is declining at a rapid rate, nearly half a million square kilometers within just two years. Scientists have also noticed a drastic drop in the thickness of the ice. Since 1972 there has been a consistent decline of about 3% every decade, but a steak of low ice years from 2002 – 2004 brought the decline average to 7.7% per decade. Based on the patterns that we’ve been seeing, it can only be expected that this will continue to decline rapidly as long as the Earth’s temperature continues to rise. So why is this happening? There is still plenty of cold weather that we all have to bare, but if there is so much cold and snow that we experience, why is the Arctic sea ice melting? The answer unfortunately lies in the hands of humanity. Although the current loss of ice seems small, it’s going to make a very quick decline due to something referred to as “albedo”. Albedo is the polar reflectivity, so when the ice melts, we lose this and leave...
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...Sample Narrative Essay: Group Ice Bucket Challenge Thesis: event + meaning Part 1: Receive challenge; learn more about ALS; buy supplies – Allison, Breanne, and I were eating lunch in the cafeteria when Simon walked up with his phone. Hey!” Simon said, pulling out his smart phone. It was obvious he wanted to show us something. We said hi back, waiting for him to pull up what he wanted us to see. “You’ve been challenged on Facebook! Are you going to do it?” Breanne looked puzzled. “Do what?” she asked. “The ice bucket challenge!” Simon replied. People sitting at tables surrounding us all looked up and at us. One shouted, “Do it!” Allison said, “Well, we’ve been challenged, so we might as well.” She and I shrugged. Simon raised his arms in victory and walked away. Part 2: Drive home; conversation – We all struggled to pay attention during class that day. All we could think about was the ice bucket challenge. How cold would the water be? Would it hurt? Who would record us taking the challenge? Whom would we nominate to take the challenge after us? We talked about all this after school, driving in Breanne’s car to Allison’s house, a cozy ranch house off Keebler Street. Along the way, Breanne surprised us by suddenly swerving into the parking lot of our local Food Lion. Allison said, “Why are we st…” but trailed off, figuring out mid-question that Breanne was buying the ice we needed. We only bought ice. “Ice bucket challenge?” the cashier said, ringing us up. We all nodded. “We...
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...winter months, we were in for a big change. We moved to Anchorage Alaska in January, right in the middle of the winter. I had never seen so much snow in my life. Because of so much snow accumulation, businesses would constantly have to use giant snowplows to remove all of the snow from the parking lots. After the plows had scraped all the snow off the top of the surface, it was not out of the ordinary for there to be a solid sheet of ice covering the parking lots. Being a new resident of the state, I underestimated at how much ice would actually be throughout the parking lot. When the parking lots were full of ice I always thought that it was the most fun thing in the world to slide across the ice on my feet. I found this fun and all, until one day it took a turn for the worst. We were at the local Wal-Mart and we had just got dumped on with four feet of snow. The snowplows were right in the middle of clearing out the parking lot so they were leaving paths of solid ice, perfect for sliding on. My mom never fancied me sliding across the ice. She would always say...
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...and how people are treating our planet. One of the facts that really caught my attention was that the water cycle is never broken – there is always the same amount of water on Earth. I never really thought about it that way, but as soon as I heard the narrator say that, I thought about all the cycles in life that happen every single day. The narrator then goes to mention that every species on Earth has a role to play. This also caught my attention Overall I found the film to be very factual as well. I thought about the facts of how our Earth is going downhill over time and it really makes me want to do something about it. I learned that global warming is really taking a large toll on our precious Earth. One example of this is the arctic ice cap is melting. It has lost 40% of its mass in the last 30 years. Another example of how the Earth is at risk is how by 2050, a quarter of the Earth’s species are going to be threatened with extinction. This frightens me and really makes me wonder what we as humans are doing wrong to affect our Earth this way. It frightens me that 70% of the Earth’s population lives in poverty. It frightens me that since 1950, the Earth’s population has nearly tripled. What are we going to do when those who lack basic necessities run out? Are those who live in poverty going to die off? When is this destruction of our Home going to...
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...How and why do Glaciers move? Glaciers are large masses of ice that are continuously changing and may be perceived as an open system with inputs and outputs. They take up 10% of the world’s total land area and are usually found in Polar Regions like Antarctica and Greenland and places where there are high altitudes and low latitudes. Fresh falling snow is made up of tiny ice crystals and after it lands it changes into solid ice. Newly fallen snow is light and porous, but as the snow becomes buried by more snow, the snowflakes change into granular ice called firn. As time passes the firn gets buried further causing the weight above it to compress it into solid ice. The force of gravity and the pressure of the ice cause the glacier to move downhill. The ice mass will stay stationary until it reaches a certain amount of thickness and when the ice reaches this amount of thickness, the pressure becomes great enough to cause the glacier to deform and move. The ice will move away from where there is the most pressure (thickest part of the glacier). Glaciers can retreat or advance depending on the amount of snow accumulation and ablation that occurs from year to year. If accumulation exceeds ablation, then the mass of the glacier will increase which causes the glacier to advance. If the snout moves to an area of lower latitude ablation will increase and eventually equilibrium will be re-established. Retreating and advancing of glaciers are very slow processes and takes hundreds...
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...Introduction Ice cream's origins are known to reach back as far as the second century B.C., although no specific date of origin or inventor has been undisputedly credited with its discovery. We know that Alexander the Great enjoyed snow and ice flavoured with honey and nectar. Biblical references also show that King Solomon was fond of iced drinks during harvesting. During the Roman Empire, Nero Claudius Caesar (A.D. 54-86) frequently sent runners into the mountains for snow, which was then flavoured with fruits and juices. Vegetables play an important role in human nutrition. Most are low in fat and calories but are bulky and filling. They supply dietary fibre and are important sources of essential vitamins, minerals and trace elements. Particularly important are the antioxidant vitamins A, C and E. When vegetables are included in the diet, there is found to be a reduction in the incidence of cancer, stroke, cardiovascular disease and other chronic ailments. Vegetable and Ice cream are now combined and offered by Sherbet Snow Company a newly established Ice cream brand that will satisfy the taste and preferences of every individual. Sherbet Snow Company will offer customers in Tacurong City and nearest town a variety of vegetable flavoured ice creams, frozen yogurt, and drinks. It is an ice cream store designed to stand out as a healthy lifestyle brand with homemade ice cream using vitamins and minerals sourced ingredients, as well as establishing itself as a comfortable environment...
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...1 2 3 4 A White Christmas requires at least 2 cm on the ground on Dec 25. Snow cover maps are produced from data obtained by satellites. 5 Snow is unstable shortly after a heavy snowfall because the crystals need time to bond to the snowpack. 6 7 8 Hoar is another term for ice crystals. The lee slope is the downwind slope (ice crystals are prone to accumulate there since they are easily carried by the wind). 9 10 11 The extra weight from snowstorms triggers the avalanche. Skiing and snowboarding are human-caused examples of avalanche triggers. If a snowpack is determined to be very deep and at risk for failing, explosives may be triggered to force the snow down. 12 13 14 Orientation: The direction that a slope faces (i.e. west, east, north, south). “Smoothness” refers to a lack of boulders, obstacles, etc. 15 16 Deaths occurred during that time due to the presence of workers building the continental railway. A closed highway in western Canada can have a huge economic impact. (There are only 4 highways connecting British Columbia and Alberta). 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 The mounds (in the foreground slow down the avalanche) and the berm collects the snow preventing it from reaching the populated area. 25 The image shows an avalanche shed in British Columbia allowing snow to travel over a highway. 26 27 28 29 30 Avalanche cords...
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...Physicist alike are still trying to overcome. Which planet would we want to live on? We chose a moon proven to have liquid water under its surface, Enceladus. With other living options out there like Mars, or Titan (one of Saturn’s larger moons) we chose in our opinion one of the least taxing and more accommodating locations. Where and Why Enceladus? Enceladus is a one of the Saturn’s moons. Enceladus measures about 500 km (310 miles) in diameter. It has an orbit cycle of 33hrs around Saturn .It is the brightest of Saturn’s moons and currently the only known moon in our solar system to have a surface comprised of pure water ice. It also has many active regions that shoot plumes of water ice from its surface high above toward Saturn. This is important to note because this creates friction and friction creates heat. The average surface temperature near these ice plumes is about -135 °F which is far warmer than you would expect considering Saturn’s distance from our sun. Enceladus provides us with one of the most important things human’s need to survive. Water. With Enceladus’ surface being solid, and liquid water present beneath the surface it wouldn’t be difficult to...
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...The Main Peculiarities of a Snowfall. A snowfall consists of myriads of minute ice crystals that fall to the ground in the form of frozen precipitation.The formation of snow begins with these ice crystals in the subfreezing strata of the middle and upper atmosphere when there is an adequate supply of moisture present. At the core of every ice crystal is a minuscule nucleus, a solid particle of matter around which moisture condenses and freezes. Liquid water droplets floating in the supercooled atmosphere and free ice crystals cannot coexist within the same cloud, since the vapor pressure of ice is less than that of water. This enables the ice crystals to rob the liquid droplets of their moisture and grow continuously. The process can be very rapid, quickly creating sizable ice crystals, some of which adhere to each other to create a cluster of ice crystals or a snowflake. Simple flakes possess a variety of beautiful forms, usually hexagonal, though the symmetrical shapes reproduced in most microscope photography of snowflakes are not usually found in actual snowfalls. Typically, snowflakes in actual snowfall consists of broken fragments and clusters of adhering ice crystals. For a snowfall to continue once it starts, there must be a constant inflow of moisture to supply the nuclei. This moisture is supplied by the passage of an airstream over a water surface and its subsequent lifting to higher regions of the atmosphere. The Pacific Ocean is the source of moisture...
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...The Main Peculiarities of a Snowfall. A snowfall consists of myriads of minute ice crystals that fall to the ground in the form of frozen precipitation.The formation of snow begins with these ice crystals in the subfreezing strata of the middle and upper atmosphere when there is an adequate supply of moisture present. At the core of every ice crystal is a minuscule nucleus, a solid particle of matter around which moisture condenses and freezes. Liquid water droplets floating in the supercooled atmosphere and free ice crystals cannot coexist within the same cloud, since the vapor pressure of ice is less than that of water. This enables the ice crystals to rob the liquid droplets of their moisture and grow continuously. The process can be very rapid, quickly creating sizable ice crystals, some of which adhere to each other to create a cluster of ice crystals or a snowflake. Simple flakes possess a variety of beautiful forms, usually hexagonal, though the symmetrical shapes reproduced in most microscope photography of snowflakes are not usually found in actual snowfalls. Typically, snowflakes in actual snowfall consists of broken fragments and clusters of adhering ice crystals. For a snowfall to continue once it starts, there must be a constant inflow of moisture to supply the nuclei. This moisture is supplied by the passage of an airstream over a water surface and its subsequent lifting to higher regions of the atmosphere. The Pacific Ocean is the source of moisture...
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...Water possesses different characteristics when in different forms. In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, a water motif shows the differences between ugliness and beauty. Knowles uses saltwater, freshwater, ice, and snow to represent different characteristics, when water is in different states. Knowles uses saltwater and freshwater to show the differences between beauty and ugliness within his characters. After Finny’s accident, he is told that he will never play sports again. Gene decides that he will not either, so he signs up to be the assistant crew manager. On the first day Gene and Quackenbush get into a fight and “catapul[t] into the water” (Knowles 79). Later, Gene showers “to wash off the sticky salt of the Naguamsett” (86). Falling...
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