How Hurricanes Are Formed!

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      I'm sure most of you following this blog know about hurricane Irene. It wasn't as bad as hurricane Katrina, but it certainly did do a lot of  damage, tearing up trees, even causing a few deaths. A lot of you might be wondering, how are hurricane formed?

      Basically, hurricanes are formed when warm moist air from the ocean start rising up from the water to the sky, leaving less air near the water, thus creating a low air pressure gradient near the water surface. The air cools as it rises, and it can't hold all the moisture it contains. The water then condenses out of the air, which is a natural way for water to produce heat. That heat fuels the winds that start to pick up to faster and faster speeds, feeding of more warm moist air to go even faster. That is what triggers and starts hurricanes, but as soon as it comes to a point where it reaches cold water areas or land, the hurricane starts losing the wind speed because of the lack of the warm air.

Fun Fact: For a hurricane to be official, it needs to have the wind speed of 119 km/h (74 miles an hour)

Ways To Keep Your Garage Clean!

          Hey guys, I just wanted to share some ways to keep your garage clean. Not only will it help your garage get cleaner if you maybe take time out of your day to read these steps and follow it, it will also help mother nature!

1) Tune your vehicle: If your car or SUV is leaking gas or other liquids like anti-freeze, it will make puddles in your garage, polluting the air around it. This makes it unhealthy for people in the long run if you just keep running a car that leaks fluids, so remember to service your car when it's required!

2) Get a push mower: Using a gas powered lawn mower uses precious resources, as against the push mower, which gives you more exercise and it doesn't use any natural resources. Interesting fact, running a 10 year old gas powered lawn mower emits as much pollution as running a new car for 320 kilometres.

3) Maintain your garden without chemicals: Instead of using pesticides, use natural compost. Using garlic or cooking oil is a good compost in itself, and it is bio-degradable, so it's a win win situation for keeping your soil fertile, getting rid of your pests, and helping your plants stay healthy.

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Animal Of The Week (4)

Copper Shark


Fact File:
Known also as bronze whalers. They are found mostly around offshore waters alongside continental margins. Sometimes though, they move to coastal bays where they eat fish within the surf zone. This obviously brings them into contact with humans (we're not very happy to see it when they look hungry!) and attacks have been reported. There were no deaths reported, but this shark is considered to be one of the most aggressive, largest and dangerous to humans.

Length: Over 3M (10 ft)
Weight: Up to 300 kg (66olb)
Where it's located: Mostly found in warmer waters in the Indo-Pacific, Atlantic and Mediterranean.



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Conservation Plans

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        Okay, now for some seriousness. There are a lot of things that we can do to save energy, or just saving the Earth in general. Ontario (a province or state in Canada) is doing a lot to save our priceless energy which we use everyday. Here is an interesting statistic that I found in an article: "Ontario has shut down 8 coal units so far and plans to shut down all remaining units by 2014". To keep our lights on at night, Ontario has started upgrading our old power plants and making them more eco-friendly, but in the process making it produce more than twice the energy it did before. That means shutting down coal plants that cause air pollution and moving to much cleaner sources of electricity. (More efficient energy also means you don't need to pay as much as you did for the coal plants!)

       That is what Ontario is doing. So what can you and/or your community do? After all, everything starts with an idea, and who knows, you might have an idea that might do the world a lot of good! 


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Animal Of The Week

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I am going to start a new segment to this blog, and as the title says, it is going to be called the ANIMAL OF THE WEEK. Today, the animal of the week is the PELICAN. The pelican is a big majestic bird. Their wingspan can reach over 2 meters in length. They have very long beaks, which they use to get fish out of the water while flying in the air. They float really well with their webbed feet for paddling. Pelicans mostly are found in warm climate areas. They make their homes in trees and rarely on the ground. Here is a picture of the pelican:

Feel free to leave a comment below suggesting an animal. It can be any animal, but it has to be real! Just suggest an animal and I may write about the animal in the new segment: Animal of the week.

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