Choose appliances and whitegoods with a high water saving rating

Reuse water from bath, shower and laundry to water the garden

Use a broom to clear and clean hard surfaces

Wash vehicles on the grass with a hose which has a trigger nozzle or simply use a bucket – this will water the lawn and keep pollutants from waterways

Install a timer on the watering system and check regularly for leaks and faults

Install a rainwater tank

Thaw frozen foods before you need them or use the microwave instead of placing them under running water.

Use the half flush option when possible on our dual flush toilets

Turn taps off firmly, but avoid excessive force that may damage the tap washer and cause the tap to leak.

I have used the Household Water Use Calculator from the following website to calculate how much water my parents and I use in a week, my baby sister does not use much water at all. http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/rsrc/PDFs/Water/CalculatorWaterMark.pdf

1) We have a dual flush toilet so:

5 litres X 54 flushes X 3 members = 810 litres

2) We do not have a leaking toilet in our household

3) Time spent in the shower

10 minutes for dad

25 minutes for mom because she has a shower twice

10 minutes for me.

So in total we spend 45 minutes in the shower on an average day.

4) We have a low water flow AAA rated showerhead, so we use

7.5 litres X 7 days X 45 minutes = 2362.50 litres

5) My baby sister has baths at my grandmas place in the weekdays, but has 2 baths at our place on Saturdays and Sundays so

96 litres X 2 = 192 litres

6) In an average week we do 5 loads of washing

7) We have a AAA top load washing machine, not a AAAA rated front loading washing machine so

130 litres X 5 loads = 650 litres

We do save water in the kitchen for example: we rinse vegetables in a shallow sink of water and we have installed water efficient taps. We only run the dishwasher when it’s full, so we use 473 litres per week.

9) We have a small garden and we do try to save water with methods such as mulching and water efficient plants so on average my household uses 651 litres a week on the garden.

10) We do not leave the tap running when brushing our teeth so we use:

3 X 14 litres = 42 litres

11) We do not have any leaking taps.

12) Yes we apply water conservation measures for other general water uses that occur in households?

For example: We minimise using water when cleaning bathrooms and kitchens, cleaning paths, using garden water features, efficiency of air conditioning and water heaters, children playing under hoses, washing cars and hand washing clothes?

So, my household uses an average of 670 litres each week

13) We do not have a rainwater tank, or a greywater system for re-using water.

14) Yes, we have changed our household’s water usage over the past few years due to increased awareness of water scarcity such as having shorter showers and turning taps off while brushing, so we save 217 litres a week.

Total Water usage = 5850.50 Litres

Total water savings =217 Litres

Total water used in my household per week

Total Water usage 5850.50 Litres – Total water savings 217 Litres = 5633.50

Total water used by each person

5633.50 litres divided by 3 = 1877.83 litres

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What happened?

The temperature on thermometer 2 which was inside the glass jar increased more with time, then the temperature on thermometer 1 which was uncovered.

Why do you think it happened.

This happened because energy from the sun could enter the glass jar but not all of it could easily find its way out again and this increased the temperature inside the glass jar. Thermometer 1 was uncovered so heat was not trapped and the temperature did not increase as much as temperature 2.

How is what happened similar to the greenhouse effect that warms the earths surface?

When the sun’s energy reaches the earth some of it is reflected back to space and the rest is absorbed. The absorbed energy warms the earth’s surface, and heat from the earth then travels back into the atmosphere. The Earth’s atmosphere is all around us. It is the air we breathe. The Earth’s atmosphere traps energy just like a greenhouse. By the way, Greenhouses are used to grow plants, especially in winter. They are made of glass and they hold heat inside.

The gases in the atmosphere such as water vapour, methane, Ozone, nitrous oxide, and carbon dioxide stop some of the heat from escaping into space. These gases are called greenhouse gasses and the natural process between the sun, the atmosphere and the Earth is called the Greenhouse Effect, because it works the same way as a greenhouse. In this experiment, the thermometer is the Earth and the glass jar is the greenhouse gases.

I think greenhouse effect is useful because trapping some energy keeps the temperatures on our planet under control. Without the greenhouse effect, the Earth would not be warm enough for humans to live. However, too many greenhouse gasses can cause the temperature to increase out of control.

Greenhouse gases are produced naturally and by people. Some natural types of greenhouse gases are decaying plants and the air we breathe out. Some not so natural greenhouse gases are produced when we burn coal, oil and gas for our electricity, when we burn fossil fuels for heating and cooling our buildings and when we use lots of water especially hot water.

Because there are more and more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, more heat is trapped and the Earths temperature is getting higher. This is known as global warming.

Global warming may be a big problem, but there are many little things we can do to make a difference. If we try, most of us can do our part to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases that we put into the atmosphere. Many greenhouse gases come from things we do every day. So here are some tips, Save energy by turning off lights, tv, and the computer when you are done, ride a bike or walk to school, talk to your friends and family about climate change, plant trees and recycle.

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By reading about the two expeditions you will see that both explorers had some similarities and differences.

Similarities

-Both went to explore the Antarctica.

-Both both made scientific observations.

-Both had a hard time getting there because of the icebergs and bad weather.

-Both were trapped in the ice for months.

Differences

- Robert Falcon Scott went on the expedition to explore and also wanted to be the first person to reach the South pole, but was unsuccessful, but Erich von Drygalski was a scientist, not a glory seeker.

- Robert Falcon Scott’s party had only little and poor food, and not enough fuel near the end of the expedition but Erich von Drygalski had enough.

- Robert Falcon Scott’s party died and Erich von Drygalski’s party survived.

Erich von Drygalski was born on February 9, 1865 in Köningsberg, East Prussia which is somewhere near Germany. Between 1882 and 1887, Drygalski studied mathematics and natural science at the University of Königsberg, Bonn, Berlin and Leipzig.

In 1898 the German South Polar Commission suggested a national expedition to Antarctica and because Erich von Drygalski was a brilliant professor of geography and Geophysics, he was chosen to be the leader of the expedition. He also had been on an expedition to Greenland before and knew how to do scientific studies in Antarctica. The Commission felt one ship would be enough so Enrich Drygalski built a new ship with the permission of the Commision. The name of the ship was Gauss. There were only 32 men in the crew. They were 22 regular crew men members, 5 naval officers and 5 scientists including Erich von Drygalski.

   On August 11, 1901, the GAUSS left Kiel for the south to explore the unknown area of Antarctica lying south of the Kerguelen Islands. On January 2, 1902, they reached Îles Kerguelen. A small party of the expedition was also stationed on the Kerguelen Islands. On January 31 the main party left on Gauss for the Antarctic and seven days later they saw the first of many icebergs. Steering the Gauss was extremely difficult and they were trapped by ice for nearly fourteen months.

On February 21 1903 they saw land. The expedition discovered new territory in Antarctica, the Kaiser Wilhelm II Land. The Gauss tried to sail on further, but became trapped by sea-ice. The crew tried to blast a way out using explosives, but had no luck and by the 2nd of March they knew that the Gauss became trapped for the winter.

Erich von Drygalski wanted to discover as much as he possibly could about the part of Antarctica he was in and he and the scientific members of the crew helped as much as they could with the time they had while trapped in the ice. They made huts to observe scientific things. Holes were drilled through the ice to search the sea-floor and rocks collected from nearby icebergs.

The Gauss also had a dog team, though sledging journeys were delayed for a while to let the ice become thick for travelling. The first sledging party went south on the 18th of March, returning 8 days later to report a 300m mountain which was named Gaussberg. Drygalski was the first to use a hot-air balloon in Antarctica.

Winter arrived and they all survived even though it wasn’t sunny and there were lots of storms. Erich von Drygalski decided not to travel further south then Gaussberg for safety reasons. Spring arrived and they saw lots of birds and seals. The ice had started to break and Gauss was carefully steered out. The expedition returned safely to Kiel in November 1903. The expedition surveyed six hundred miles of coastline and 1,440 species of living organism of the Antarctic were described.

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Robert Falcon Scott was an officer in the Royal Navy, who had joined his first ship when he was thirteen. He was born in Devon and came from seafaring family, though his father ran a brewery. He married a sculptor named Kathleen Bruce in 1908, and they had one son named Peter.

Robert Falcon Scott’s Expeditions

Robert Falcon Scott led two expeditions.

The British National Antarctic or Discovery Expedition 1901 – 1904

Robert Falcon Scott’s first expedition, in the ship Discovery, took place between 1901 to 1904. Discovery was specially built for the voyage, and it took them within 450 miles of the South Pole before Robert Falcon Scott had to turn back because they could not cope mainly because there wasn’t enough of food and there were health problems and the men also struggled against frostbite and snow blindness. I mean what did they expect, Antarctica is the coldest place on earth!!

The Terra Nova Expedition 1910-13

In 1910, Robert Falcon Scott sailed on another scientific voyage, this time on the ship Terra Nova. This second expedition had less government support and many schools made collections for the expedition.

The reason for this expedition was to reach South Pole and to explore the part of Antarctica around the Ross Sea, discovered in 1841 by Sir James Clark Ross. They also wanted to find out more about the animals, weather and geology of the Antarctic. Dr Edward Wilson, the zoologist on both Robert Falcon Scott’s expeditions, collected embryos of Emperor penguins so that he could study the birds more closely.

Robert Falcon Scott’s party had lots of problems in both expeditions. In the first expedition he took dogs but they were not experienced in using them, the food brought for the dogs was incorrect and had gone bad. So in the second expedition Robert Scott planned to reach the Pole from Ross Island, using ponies and three motorised sledges, with a few dogs in support, then by getting the men to pull the sledges. Robert Flacon Scott planned to use the motor sledges as far as possible.

On January 4th 1911, the Terra Nova anchored to the ice and the unloading began. The ponies were especially happy to finally be on firm ground as they rolled and kicked in the snow. The motorised sledges failed. The ponies suffered and were killed for food (which was expected) and the dogs went back to base camp halfway with most of the men.

This left Robert Falcon Scott and just four companions to pull. They reached the Pole on 17–18 January 1912..yippeee!!! but they were not delighted to have reached their goal…because they found that Roald Amundsen and his four Norwegian companions had got there 1 month before them. Scott’s men had been beaten.

On the expedition Robert Scott made scientific observations and collected rock samples. Scott and his party needed to return across the 800 miles they had already covered. They had to be back before the middle of April, before the Antarctic winter brought deadly freezing temperatures and constant darkness. They had a disastrous time. Terrible weather included blizzards and gale force winds. They had only little and poor food, and not enough fuel. Eventually, they all died and their bodies were found later in their sleeping tents by a search party from McMurdo at the end of the Antarctic winter of 1912.

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