Embark on an exploration of the earth's climate in the FIRST LEGO League's 2008 Climate Connections Challenge!
Discover the links between science, people, resources and communities. Unearth how we learn about past climates and delve into questions surrounding our current and future climatic conditions. Join FIRST LEGO League teams in creating a global game plan as they make these Climate Connections!
How do our personal energy choices to heat our homes, fuel our cars, charge our cell phones, power our computers, or even download music to our iPods impact the environment, economy, and life around the globe? Which resources should we use and why?
Nanotechnology is a new scientific frontier that will impact many facets of society, such as medicine, computers, and the environment. The nano world is 100,000 times smaller than the thickness of a single strand of hair. At the nano level, everything jumps and shakes – even solid things like tabletops. Imagine, the atoms that make up a solid object constantly move and vibrate!
Our oceans are of vital importance to the health of the Earth, yet only 1% percent of these magnificent bodies of water has been studied. We have explored space more than our oceans. Oceans provide us with many resources and activities from the fish we eat, oil drilled fromthe ocean floor, to extracts from seaweed used to make ice cream.
The oceans provide a wide, navigable highway for the shipping industry, and an underwater playground for activities like scuba diving.
Oceans fuel this planet’s most vital ecological processes, like the water cycle, and the carbon-dioxide cycle. Living oceans absorb carbon dioxide and pump oxygen into our atmosphere, thereby sustaining the planet’s diverse flora and fauna– yet we know very little about how we are impacting this important resource.
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