ENVR 1301 – Ashley Ibarra

 First Demographic Profile Year 2022 Data Country Name - Italy  Birth Rate - 7.154 births per 1,000 people   Death Rate - 10.841 deaths per 1,000 people Population Growth Rate - 59,037,474 , a 0.34% decline from 2021 Life Expectancy for Females - 84.8 years Life Expectancy for Males - 80.5 years Fertility Rate - 1.3 births per woman GNI (gross national income) - $46,450 MLA Citations  GNI per capita by country 2023. (n.d.-a). https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gni-per-capita-by-country  Nadeau, B. L., Donato, V. D., & Mortensen, A. (2023, May 17). “low fertility trap”: Why Italy’s falling birth rate is causing alarm . CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/17/europe/italy-record-low-birth-rate-intl-cmd/index.html#:~:text=Italy%2C%20a%20country%20once%20known,to%20official%20figures%20for%202022.  “Italy Death Rate 1950-2023.” MacroTrends , www.macrotrends.net/countries/ITA/italy/death-rate.  Published by    ...

First Concept Map Chapter 4 was about learning the energy that surrounds the earth. If we look closely there is energy all around us starting with the sun. Energy transforms into many other different types of energies some examples are thermal energy, kinetic energy, electrical energy, potential energy, etc. I also learned about how energy in ecosystems works. Basically life needs balance in order to work so there are these levels of primary, secondary, tertiary, etc. in order for energy to flow through. Energy is needed to live we need food to survive and food is made from energy. Second Concept Map Chapter 7 mentions biodiversity which is life itself, in other words the variety of life forms and species found on Earth. I learned something important which was that sometimes us humans exploit species to much they become extinct. This made me sad, because I feel like it relates to climate change a lot, especially because when overusing products causes more work to be done and pollutes t...

 My household water bills average I used my data from the water bills of July-August 2023, and the total was 4,488 gallons/month on average. 2,244 gallons/person/month 74.8 gallons per day / per person Name of water calculator URL My per person usage Water Use Calculator https://www.chelanpud.org/conservationhome/water-conservation/water-use-calculator#resultsBottom   This was indoor and outdoor data = 456 gallons per day 13,862 per month Residential water consumption calculator  https://cob.org/services/utilities/water-calculator   Indoor data = 238 gallons per day , and 7,230 gallons per month Outdoor data = 16 gallons per day , and 488 gallons per month After doing my math on the data collected of the water bills I came to realize a pattern this summer, which was that more water was used in my household. I guess that it had to do with the extreme heat we had this year. I know I have seen my mom water the plants more, because the grass is so dry that there are even...

 Lake Poopó in Bolivia 2002 👺 Image from Google Lake Poopó 2016 https://phys.org/news/2022-11-bolivia-lake-poopo-people-left.html  Lake Poopó 2023    I decided to write my post on Lake Poopó located in the country Bolivia. I have always been intrigued by lakes, I think they are so pretty, especially the ones people are able to swim in. I love swimming in lakes, so whenever I see a lake badly maintained or shrunken down it makes me sad. Now Lake Poopó used to be a large body of water, it used the be the second largest in Bolivia, but overtime it shrinked to almost no water. In this weeks module I learned about hydrosphere/cryosphere, and when looking at lake Poopó I believed hydrosphere is the cause for the empty lake. The hydrologic cycle is the water cycle with water from one reservoir to another. This is caused by heat energy from the sun, and the gravitational pull from the earth or in other words evaporation. In the first image im showing is lake Poopó in 2002 w...

Cuyahoga River Burning 1969    https://cen.acs.org/environment/pollution/Marking-50-years-since-Cuyahoga/97/i24  1. Point of View  After watching the video I would say it was articulated in a timely manner by stating the year the river burned, and at the end of the video explaining the positive solutions done to help the river be what it is today.  2. Purpose I think the purpose of this video was educational, and that there is always a solution for everything. The video mentions how before the fire happened at the river there weren't many laws, or precautions being taken to protect the water quality of the environment. The goal was to bring awareness about how things can be fixed if people come together to find a solution. The issue here was that the water was very contaminated and needed to be cleaned asap. 3. Questions at Issue The main problem was that a fire was started due to railroad bridges and oil. This made the river completely polluted and with a very ...

 What I look forward to in my Environmental Science class...  I look forward to learning about climate change, because I think it's important to know how climate affects earth. Climate change helps determine things like food, and clean water. These are key factors for a human, because we need them in order to survive. Climate change is it also understand global warming, and why droughts happen, etc.  What I think this class will be about...  I think Environmental Science will be about biology and science. In other words the study of the environment, and global issues. I think learning about how the earth is sustained, and how us humans contribute to it.