This is the story of Nella, the carbon atom. In this story you will travel through hundreds of years with her and see the life of a carbon atom. She started in the atmosphere and traveled to a chicken and fox, dead plants, coal and more. I’m going to tell the story of how Nella traveled through these things. Nella has landed on a dead plant in a musty swamp. She starts sinking to the bottom of the mud in the swamp for a long _____ year nap. The weight and heat of the ground has converted her and the dead plants into coal. But it takes about a million years for the dead plants to turn into coal. She was the only thing left in the swamp because the heat from the ground removes nitrogen, hydrogen and the carbon dioxide is the only thing left. She starts sinking to the bottom of the swamp and gets engulfed in the warm mud, settling in for a million year long nap. The weight and heat of the ground has finally converte her and the rest of the dead plants into coal after a million years. She was the only thidng left in the swamp because the heat from the ground removes nitrogen, hydrogen, and the carbon dioxide is the only thing left. Nella was coal after millions of years. She finally got dug up. Some children found her and she was brought to Richmond Middle School to be burned and provide power for the school. She was a fossil fuel and when she was burned she turned into CO2 which then drifted up into the atmosphere. Nella was up in the atmosphere and then she saw a small piece of kale growing on a little farm in Minnesota. She was brought down from the sky and she was part of the sunlight and the piece kale took all the energy. The piece of kale did a whole process to make Nella co2. Nella landed on a piece of kale. She was going through the kales cycle the piece of kale was making glucose. To make the glucose they needed oxygen and bunch of other stuff. The piece of kale made lots co2 and there was lots. So the shot out the rest of the oxygen and Nella went with the the rest of the
The complexity of the Okefenokee Swamp parallels the many different opportunities authors have to approach their descriptions of it. The diverse population of plants and animals that both authors choose to include in their passages appeal to the readers’ senses. While Passage 1 uses the description to convey an impartial examination of the swamp’s landscape, Passage 2 aims at uncovering the soul of the swamp and its inhabitants. Despite the apparent differences in purpose, the incorporation of sensory language in both passages makes accessible to readers a landscape as unfamiliar and daunting as the Okefenokee Swamp.
Rebecca Skloot has done a marvelous job telling the story of Henrietta Lacks; the woman who changed science!
The brain cells slip away, one by one. One hundred thousand of them a day, departing. If she is very still and concentrates very hard she can feel it happen. One by one by one, the cells descending to her rump. It is an exodus, a relocation. A mass conservation. Her brain is escaping.
The first symbol in the story is the swamp. In this story the swamp is more specifically called the Old Woman Swamp, and it
Suddenly the blissful world she was in a moment ago disintegrates. As she escapes with frantic haste Eliza espies a group of dying flowers rotting away in silence with the once dazzling petals wilting in desperation, overtaken by a russet plague. The trees she once admired so are taken over by hosts of mites who have infiltrated the internal organs of the giant. A bird lands on a windowsill with a squirming worm in its beak and proceeds to enact nature’s order by calmly devouring the thing while the worm desperately battles a losing campaign as the bird’s comrades virtuously chorus a lullaby, calling for it to sleep.
There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul. (Notice the hints given)
deterred from her morbid course. She swims back to her cave with the man still
...eisz. She can hear her playing the piano and thinks of her talking about art. She wonders if she is a real artist. She becomes exhausted and knows that she is too far out to return. The water that she was so mesmerized with throughout the novel and that was the beginning of her new life, was also the end.
How coal is formed is quite an interesting topic. It started over millions of years ago in ancient swamps when vegetation and trees died and formed peat (it is where vegetation builds up and turns into a super messy pile of stuff). This peat was eventually covered with either dirt or sand. As the peat is covered and pressure the gas that the peat gives off starts to get trapped in the new forming coal. Several years the peat now turns to rock known as coal. As the planetary plates shift the coal moves and forms pockets and runs in the earth. Then people came along and found out how to harness is power. People had to get the coal out of the earth. One way they found out how to get it out was to dig it out of the underground tunnels to find where the coal runs. Another way to get the coal is to strip mine the coal this is where the miners remove huge amounts of dirt to get to the coal. Both of these mining techniques are extremely dangers.
“The half-life of a radioisotope is the time required for half the atoms in a given sample to undergo radioactive decay; for any particular radioisotope, the half-life is independent of the initial amount of...
Carbon Carbon is one of the basic elements of matter (Bush 1230-1231). The name carbon comes from the Latin word "carbo" meaning charcoal. Carbon is the sixth most abundant element (Gangson). More than 1,000,000 compounds are made from carbon (Carbon (C)). "The Element Carbon is defined as a naturally abundant non-metallic element that occurs in many inorganic and in all organic compounds, exists freely as graphite and diamond and as a constituent of coal, limestone, and petroleum, and is capable of chemical self-bonding to form an enormous number of chemically, biologically, and commercially important molecules.
pigeon sitting. He then took a rock and smashed it, then he started plucking the bird alive.
There are three types of fossil fuels- coal, crude oil, and natural gas. Coal was formed very slowly. Even the “newest” coal we use today was formed a million years ago. Most of the coal we use was formed 300 million years ago, when the Earth was covered with swamps. When plants and trees died, they sank to the bottoms of the swamps. These plants and trees were layered on top of each other, forming a substance called peat. Peat is considered the first stage in coal formation. It is a mixture of water, leaves, braches, and other plant debris. Over time, the Earth changed, and deposits of sand, clay, and other minerals were formed, burying the peat. Sedimentary rock...
a swamp than a pond. The pond was black as night and home to the snakes, tadpoles,
creature lives in a big wondrous grot and secret cell buried within the ground. Down