Web Scavenger Hunt: can you track down the answer?On these two pages, we have given you 10 questions. All relate to "Fuels of the Future" (pp. 6-7), or to "South America's Vanishing Rain Forest" (pp. 8-9) and "What Hope for the Forests?" (pp. 10-11). To find the answers, you will have to do some Internet sleuthing Sleuthing See also Crime Fighting. Alleyn, Inspector detective in Ngaio Marsh’s many mystery stories. [New Zealand Lit.: Harvey, 520] Archer, Lew tough solver of brutal crimes. [Am. Lit. . In the box below are URLs to seven different Web pages. Explore those pages to find the answers. Don't forget to list the source (URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. ) for each answer! URLS The answer to one or more of these questions can be found at each of these pages: * wwwl.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/wind_ad.html * www.eia.doe.gov/kids/history/timelines/ethanol.html * www.ener.~jquest.ca.gov/story/chapter14.html * www.pbs.org/journeyintoamazonia/bigtop.html * wwwl.eere.ener6~y.gov/windandhydro/hydro_how.html * www.pbs.org/journeyintoamazonia/enter.html * www.worldwildlife.org/forests/basic/facts.cfm 1. Who came up with a new kind of engine in 1826, and on what kind of fuel did it run? answer: source: 2. What is the common name of Alouatta caraya, an animal native to the Amazon rainforest The Amazon Rainforest (Brazilian Portuguese: Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia; Spanish: Selva Amazónica or Amazonía) is a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon Basin of South America. , and what is its favorite food? answer: source: 3. How many countries hold 60 percent of Earth's forests? Which countries are they? answer: source: 4. Wind energy relies on the renewable power of winds, which are caused by what three things? answer: source: 5. On what do 80 percent to 90 percent of the people living in extreme poverty worldwide depend for their livelihoods? How many people live in extreme poverty worldwide? answer: source: 6. What percent of all the river water in the world flows through the Amazon delta? answer: source: 7. Which kind of rain-forest animal has algae algae (ăl`jē) [plural of Lat. alga=seaweed], a large and diverse group of primarily aquatic plantlike organisms. These organisms were previously classified as a primitive subkingdom of the plant kingdom, the thallophytes (plants that living in its hair or fur? answer: source: 8. When flowing water is captured and turned into electricity, what is it called? answer: source: 9. What are three basic ways to use the oeean as an energy source? answer: source: 10. Which alternative energy source is usually Iocated in remote areas, far from the cities where it is most needed? Is that an advantage or disadvantage for this method of generating power? answer: source: 1. Samuel Morey Samuel Morey (October 23, 1762 - April 17, 1843) was an American inventor, who invented an internal combustion engine and was a pioneer in steamships who accumulated a total of 20 patents. ; ethanol and turpentine turpentine, yellow to brown semifluid oleoresin exuded from the sapwood of pines, firs, and other conifers. It is made up of two principal components, an essential oil and a type of resin that is called rosin. source: www.eia.doe.gov/kids/history/timelines/ethanol.html 2. howler monkey howler monkey Any of several species of slow-moving tropical American monkeys (genus Alouatta) noted for their roaring cries, which carry over a distance of 2–3 mi (3–5 km). ; figs source: www.pbs.org/journeyintoamazonia/bigtop.html 3. 7 countries: Brazil, Canada, China, Indonesia, Russia, the U.S., and the Democratic Republic of Congo source: www.worldwildlife.org/forests/basic/facts.cfm 4. the heating of the atmosphere by the sun, the rotation of the earth, and the earth's surface Noun 1. Earth's surface - the outermost level of the land or sea; "earthquakes originate far below the surface"; "three quarters of the Earth's surface is covered by water" surface irregularities source: www1.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/wind_ad.html 5. on forests; 1.2 billion people source: www.worldwildlife.org/forests/basic/facts.cfm 6. 16 percent source: www.pbs.org/journeyintoamazonia/enter.html 7. the three-toed sloth sloth (slōth, slôth), arboreal mammal found in Central and South America distantly related to armadillos and anteaters. Sloths live in tropical forests, where they sleep, eat, and travel through the trees suspended upside down, clinging to source: www.pbs.org/journeyintoamazonia/bigtop.html 8. hydroelectric power or hydropower hy·dro·pow·er n. Hydroelectric power. source: www1.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/hydro_how.html 9. use the ocean's waves, use its high and low tides, or use the temperature differences in the water source: www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter14.html 10. wind energy; a disadvantage source: www1.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/wind_ad.html |
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