WHY DOES THE OCEAN HAVE WAVES?

NOAA on WHAT CAUSES OCEAN WAVES

Excerpt:  Waves are created by energy passing through water, causing it to move in a circular motion. However, water does not actually travel in waves. Waves transmit energy, not water, across the ocean and if not obstructed by anything, they have the potential to travel across an entire ocean basin. 

WHAT OCEANS ARE SHOWN ON THIS WATERY GLOBE?

Maps that are sold in a country tend to show that country as the center of the earth, but globes are more democratic in their representation of the earth. Still, the earth is not perfectly round.

MOST OF THE EARTH IS WATERY : WHAT OCEANS ARE WE SEEING ON THIS GLOBE IMAGE?

 

CLIMATE CHANGE GOV : SCIENCE APPLIED TO THE HEATING OF OCEAN WATERS

CLIMATE GOV on HEATING OF OCEANS 

Creatures that adapted to cooler oceans over thousands of years are moving to where the temperatures better suit them.  Take a look at this science site. 

Excerpt: The ocean is the largest solar energy collector on Earth.  Not only does water cover more than 70 percent of our planet's surface, it can also absorb large amounts of heat without a large increase in temperature.

WATER PLANET

THINGS YOU CAN DO TO SAVE WATER!

A you probably know already, there is drought and as a result in many places there is water rationing.

You can help save water by not wasting it.  Here is a list of things you can do that will help us save water so that there's enough for everyone for drinking and bathing, and so our farmers can water their crops.  You can probably think of other ways.

1) When you take a shower, after you're all wet and your hair is all wet, shut the water off while you soap up. Turn it back on to rinse.  YOU WILL SAVE GALLONS.

2) Don't use the water to heat a bathroom when it's too chilly to shower or bath.  Use a small portable heater to raise the air temperature first, shut it off, and then start with hotter water, and as the air temperature in the room rises, lower the water temperature.

3) Your dog and cat need to drink fresh water so you change the water in the bowl a couple times a day.  Don't throw that water down the sink.  Take it and water the vegetation that is on the "parkway" between the side walk and the street.  INSECTS NEED WATER and when they can't find it where they live they will come inside looking for it.  Then we kill them.

4) Consider changing part of your lawn from grass to a succulent or arid garden.  Put down stone for walkways around plantings. 

5) Be sure that your lawn and garden sprinklers are working and adjusted to not waste water that goes down the street to the sewer.

6) Toilets with low water flush are a puzzle.  Some of them have to be flushed twice to do the job.  However, you may have a toilet that would work just fine with less water.  Try filling a gallon water bottle, put the lid on it, set it down in the tank, and see what happens.  Displacing one gallon of water each time you flush will also save gallons.

7) Hand wash and hang to dry some of your clothing rather than put it through the machine. Hand washing is not only more gentle to fabrics but it also sometimes does a better job than the machine.  Over time you will save money and water.

CALGARY SALT WATER A BILLION YEARS OLD

CALGARY HERALD : WORLD OLDEST WATER

"...An international research team reported Wednesday that miners near Timmins are tapping into an ancient underground oasis that may harbour prehistoric microbes. The water flowing out of fractures and bore holes in one mine near Timmins dates back more than a billion years, perhaps 2.6 billion, making it the oldest water known to exist on Earth, says the team that details the discovery in the journal Nature..."

ORAGAMI WATERBOMB